> ... villagers who came to meet #Kurdukar in Kevadia Colony ... had accepted resettlement in #gujarat only on paper... government records took priority over... reality... A #tribal person who does not defer to these records is called an illiterate … what do you call a judge who disregards the people in favor of the records?
https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/
#Aravinda writes of a #judge of #dams turned #bureucrat by #NeilPostman 's #definition #bureaucracy in the book #technopoly , #DavidGraeber

> ... on some level, all bureaucracies work on this principle: once you introduce formal measures of success, “reality”—for the organization—becomes that which exists on paper, and the human reality that lies behind it is a secondary consideration at best.
--- #DavidGraeber sounding like #NeilPostman on how bureaucracies are designed to disregard information. That's how big #dams can be built.
https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/
#Aravinda #India #Narmada #richguy #bureaucrat