Home addresses and road signs are both a psyop. The real design is to aid distant rulers in the management of their occupied territory at scale. The standardization helps collect taxes, perform surveillance, and enforce laws with incredible efficiency that would not be possible without them.🤣

They facilitate logistics with impersonal directories instead of community held knowledge and relationships. Dependence on the state to just get from place A to B develops and community interaction degrades. 🤔

*I started this post as a joke. My god what have I done.*☹️

Among its most early uses were to organize conscription in the military and to organize the housing of military in civilian homes.😫🤯

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