These days, a sure way to tell that something is important and relevant is for mainstream Democrats and other pseudo-liberals to declare that it doesn’t exist or isn’t important.

Domination by the quants means no Jane Jacobs. Which is part of the goal, really. The ideas that you can prove with math and the ideas that have some truth are sets with few overlapping elements.

The goal of ubiquitous quantification is nominally to arrive at data with more veracity and consistency, more correspondence to reality. However, it is reality-constraining in effect as most of human experience that is true and meaningful is not amenable to quantification.

I’m not denigrating science nor apologizing for the excesses of religion, but rather asking people to recognize the limitations of their tools and their understanding.

Not gonna happen, I know. But I try.

(Also, Jacobs can’t have been smart because she didn’t have a degree. I mean obviously, duh.)