> ... 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
People’s Knowledge in the Paperless Society

Globalisation demands that people speak, count, remember, live and die in forms expressible in first world languages and databases. Though the furious drive towards standardization of knowledge and…

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