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ISSUE

noun / verb
I.

A problem

II.

To distribute officially

III.

Offspring

Almost grotesquely efficient. Institutions issue directives. Women become "issues." Dynasties produce issue. The word treats reproduction and administrative burden as adjacent concepts.

Tags reproduction bureaucracy
Field Note

“Grotesquely efficient.”

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