Seeing Like A State: Agriculture high modernist
My current reading has revealed that state, nation state or a government tend, or should I say, must have a myopic view of its subject in order to rule over them effectively and efficiently. Which isn’t a bad and such a catastrophic ordeal if you measure it through the current view of course, but it is still a paradigm nonetheless, the only paradigm that can exist in today’s modern world. It can be argued with such a mono-paradigm, type of governing, when a disaster struck, people would realize how fragile having only one type of state would do to the world. Maybe the world will fall into a state of anarchy, where law wouldn’t exist and barbarity would reign supreme. Or, would it? If you measure everything by the western rule and measurement, of course anything that falls outside of its view would be deemed as barbaric, maybe that’s why cold war happened. Beneath the veil of capitalism vs socialism, lies the true feelings of superiority of their system of governing or world view is...