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Martin Sústrik

Cited on this site for a 2026 LessWrong review of Seeing Like a State.

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“Scott, all too often, makes it seem that it’s all about elites imposing legibility on their subjects. What he leaves largely unsaid is how the subjects themselves find metis exhausting and desperately want to escape it.”
— Martin Sústrik, James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State, paragraph beginning “This may be the most charitable explanation”Read the passage

Used in: Local knowledge is a burden people want to escape

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