Human-driven solutions
When the noise of data tries to hack the code of humanity
When one acts from inner clarity and deep principles, there is no need for endless whitepapers, position statements, or datasets to justify the next step. Modern governance, however, abandons principles for so-called “data-driven solutions.”
As if the right arrangement of numbers in rows and columns could justify anything: separating children from parents if the spreadsheets reveal it; curtailing rights to speech, assembly, safety, security, and property if the algorithms demand it.
While data is a powerful tool for measurement and forecasting, it becomes a cruel master when used to hack the human code.
The more legislators accumulate knowledge, the less they truly understand; the more they strive, the more they seek to control human nature itself. They attempt to conquer the world according to the distorted reality their data promised, if only the right policy were imposed.
This is why people grow restless, anxious, and depressed. It is because of fo…
