I’m A Dreamer

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I’m a dreamer,
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You’ll join us
And the world
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2017	The Promise At Risk
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2014	Days And Years
2013	Currency And Transport
2012	Something Which Did Not Exist Before
2011	True Magic

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Profit From Ongoing Disintegration

Statistics began life as a tool through which the state could view society, but gradually developed into something that academics, civic reformers and businesses had a stake in.  But for many data analytics firms, secrecy surrounding methods and sources of data is a competitive advantage that they will not give up voluntarily.
A post-statistical society is a potentially frightening proposition, not because it would lack any forms of truth or expertise altogether, but because it would drastically privatise them.  Statistics are one of many pillars of liberalism, indeed of Enlightenment.  The experts who produce and use them have become painted as arrogant and oblivious to the emotional and local dimensions of politics.  No doubt there are ways in which data collection could be adapted to reflect lived experiences better.  But the battle that will need to be waged in the long term is not between an elite-led politics of facts versus a populist politics of feeling.  It is between those still committed to public knowledge and public argument and those who profit from the ongoing disintegration of those things.
—    William Davies
From his article:  “How Statistics Lost Their Power“
Appearing in:  “The Guardian“, dtd:  January 19, 2017
I found it at:  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-statistics-lost-their-power-and-why-we-should-fear-what-comes-next
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On This Day In:
2021	Closer To Understanding
	On My Knees
2020	Profit From Ongoing Disintegration
	I’m A Dreamer
2019	Even When We Have A Criminal / Dangerous / Incompetent President
2018	But It Keeps Trying
	Blue Wave, But Not Blue Tsunami
2017	The Promise At Risk
2016	Or As Will Come In Time
2015	It Is Another Beautiful Day At The Red Pony Bar And Continual Soiree…
2014	Days And Years
2013	Currency And Transport
2012	Something Which Did Not Exist Before
2011	True Magic

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