Venkatesh Rao@vgrBig, ironic lesson I learned from Fukuyama's work: if you don't trust the govt, you end up with a de facto bigger, less effective govt...8:17 PM · Mar 28, 20168 Retweets21 Likes
Rob Knight @rob_knight·Mar 28, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr Same principle as in the first para of this review? http://theguardian.com/books/2015/may/06/the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy-david-graeber-review…1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 28, 2016Replying to @rob_knight@rob_knight not quite... more a case of what FF calls a vetocracy1
zem@zem42·Mar 29, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr i'm reminded of jo freeman's "tyranny of structurelessness" and heinlein's "coventry", both of which have greatly influenced my outlook11