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A comment on A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010).

Re:A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010) by Nesze on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:01AM (#21999105)
This somewhat reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence.

It's common to ignore / demolish things which seem futile or even interfering, while in reality they are just not understood in the first place.

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Re:A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010) by closeparen on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:33PM (#22014470)
>Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

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