Seeing like a State

 From this book, I learned the mechanisms of how centralized decision-making and control almost always makes the situations it seeks to improve worse.

The bureaucracy needing to control things tries to make it easy for itself by organizing populations into straight and square and seemingly rational patterns that ignore the practical on-the-ground situations and the experience of the locals trying to deal with them.  Disaster, cynicism and apathy always follow.  The powers end up only seeking to keep their power.

Explains what happened during Covid and the indictment of Trump.