When I was in school, I found that many éminences grises in my field had bad takes. I spent years thinking, maybe they're accidentally wrong but for good reasons, or deliberately wrong but for better reasons No I see they were limited human beings who made mistakes.
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Making power legible has profound disinfecting effects, and I also think there's a reason power most often seeks to evade legibility and has enjoyed taking up residence in representative democracies and the like.
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Everyone knew who was in touch in the USSR, Nazi Germany, Maoist China, the Aztec kingdom. What disinfecting effects?
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In autist world, sure. In the real world, "results" can be interpreted and games in various ways, all subject to politics. There is no system of management which can produce a Lee Kuan Yew and give him the necessary power which can't also produce a Stalin.
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I'm not sure this addresses your point but I'm pretty sure Stalin's despotism is the best thing that could have happened to Russia given the circumstances, and the power was a lot more legible than what came before.
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