"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Homogenization and the State
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-10-01 03:00
As the state grows in scope and size, it must gather and organize knowledge; in order for it to understand, to map, and to effectively govern and collect taxes it must replace the folk vernacular with a standardized one, substituting a colloquial understanding of place with a more efficient, codified system. The illegibility of local places must be swept aside in order to make those places uniform and coherent.
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