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“This abolitionism regarding bureaucracy further relies on the fairly traditional role of the occupant of the center as the final judge, to which we can add some considerations I don’t think I’ve explored, involving the broader management of the nomos or originary distribution. We assume foundation by conquest and the subsequent division into lots amongst the originary team, i.e., military leaders converted into landowners. The original 13 colonies that became the US fits this pattern, even if the colonies were allotted by the king to noblemen, which is to say inheritors of an earlier distribution. The occupant of the center oversees ongoing redistribution, as property is sold, consolidated, parceled out, contested, etc., and new populations (setting aside migration, just subsequent generations) need to be included, and all of this contains sources of resentment that need to be formalized juridically.”

— Adam Katz, Continuum of Power · Aug 20, 2024 · Bouvard Substack