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====There are no straight lines in nature==== | ====There are no straight lines in nature==== | ||
''[[There is no machine for judging poetry]]''. | |||
In which JC reminds us of Robin Williams’ great scene in {{br|Dead Poet’s Society}} and invites us to, well take it [[metaphorically]]. [[Peotry]], right? It’s ''meant'' to be taken figuratively. | |||
''There is no machine for judging commerce either''. Any set of [[metrics]], any balance sheet, any [[org chart]], any formal accounting for the intensely human activity of doing business necessarily jettisons much of what is important about it. The [[map]] can never be more than a schematic. It cannot convey the grandeur or the horror of the [[territory]]. | |||
This much is obvious: this is not the lesson we should be drawing — it is already imprinted in our cultural fabric, however determined the modernists may be to forget it | |||
The lesson is this. If we mistake the map for the territory — if we organise our interests and judge our outcomes exclusively by reference to the map, ''we thereby change the territory''. The territory more closely resembles the map. This is only convenient for cartographers. It is bad for the people in the territory whose interests the cartographers are supposedly trying to represent. It leads to two kinds of bad outcomes. | |||
{{L1}}It makes life easier for business units that can only work in terms of numbers. It enhances financialisation be reducing ineffability. The benefit of network nodes that ''can'' handle ineffability — that tend to be more expensive and less predictable — we call these [[subject matter expert]]s, or even humans — is diminished. <li> | |||
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Things that can’t be ranked and counted — that aren’t “legible” to this great high powered information processing system — have no particular [[value]] in its terms, whether or not they actually have any value. The unique pleasure you derive from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations reduces precisely to the amount you are prepared to pay for it over the cost of producing and distributing it. Any greater value — the life lesson, aphorisms and fortitude it magically confers that guide you through through your heaviest seas and blackest storms count for nothing. It is hardly a novel idea to regret that something is being lost hereby. | Things that can’t be ranked and counted — that aren’t “legible” to this great high powered information processing system — have no particular [[value]] in its terms, whether or not they actually have any value. The unique pleasure you derive from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations reduces precisely to the amount you are prepared to pay for it over the cost of producing and distributing it. Any greater value — the life lesson, aphorisms and fortitude it magically confers that guide you through through your heaviest seas and blackest storms count for nothing. It is hardly a novel idea to regret that something is being lost hereby. | ||