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In a sense you could think of social science and the modern welfare state as a project that functionally usurped these elements of social function from religious incumbents.
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What is worth considering is how the social science/blue state industrial complex differs from clerical organizations in basic organization and information processing. My hunch is that religions were relatively indexical in execution whereas the new system Sees Like a State
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anyway, still thinking about thishttps://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1275246731383332865?s=19 …
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all of this is work in progress and much of it is probably wrong
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Also very large chunks of professionalized healthcare, capital allocation for social goods, long-term financial services (life insurance, etc), a very large chunk of "competent administration as a service" (dating to before widespread literacy), etc.
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