It strikes me that as a culture we love movies about corrupt politicians committing atrocities and finally getting stopped by lone ex-special forces moral heroes, but we don’t seem to have a lot of heroes in real life.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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