by Renard Teipelke
Afterwards, everybody always knows better. We were obsessed with numbers. “We” as in “the majority”, “the public”, “the decision-makers”, or “our/the representatives”. It does not matter if you or I were obsessed with numbers. It was the zeitgeist for at least the past two decades. It worked well for most of the time because of the numbers or despite of them. But then a financial implosion triggered a global economic crisis that resulted in a political and – in many places – even society/community crisis of an extent unforeseen by those experts who are throwing out predictions and forecasts every day. Now we have to deal with this mess. And the time of pure number fetishism is also over (at least for now). Continue reading
