A bureaucracy that keeps generating records about a category it invented makes the category harder to doubt as the records pile up, even for officials who can see the abuses.

Evidence 5 passages

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  As the witch-hunting bureaucracy generated more and more information, it became harder to dismiss all that information as pure fantasy.

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  he didn't witness any witchcraft firsthand but so much information about witches was circulating that it was difficult for him to doubt all of it.

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  All that information produced a lot of order and power. It was a means for certain people to gain authority and for society as a whole to discipline its members. But it produced zero truth and zero wisdom.

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  Government agencies, party organs, and secret police documents recorded who was a Kulak in a labyrinthine system of Kartoteki catalogs, archives, and internal passports.

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  The mountains of information collected by Soviet bureaucrats about the Kulaks wasn't the objective truth about them, but it imposed a new intersubjective Soviet truth.

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