"The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that
modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often
glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'."
-- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve
the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1998), p. 82.
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