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As {{author|James C. Scott}} articulates it in his magnificent {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}, high modernism is a “muscle-bound” self-confidence in the power of ''enlightenment'' — with or without a capital E — to satisfy human needs and master nature (including our own) by the central organisation of society according to scientific and logical principles. | As {{author|James C. Scott}} articulates it in his magnificent {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}, high modernism is a “muscle-bound” self-confidence in the power of ''enlightenment'' — with or without a capital E — to satisfy human needs and master nature (including our own) by the central organisation of society according to scientific and logical principles. | ||
This is the rational, ordered and geometric view that the world can be {{sex|manhandled}}, literally, to optimise social outcomes through big, centrally-governed | This is the rational, ordered and geometric view that the world can be {{sex|manhandled}}, literally, to optimise social outcomes through big, centrally-governed infrastructural, agricultural and technological projects. | ||