we expected a rise from 3.7 for resident of 73, 2000 to rise to 4.0 to 90,4000.
they are interested in numbers but for us, we are more interested in every each of the individuals.
They tell us the 'big lie' that "the figures don't lie", as they treat us as categories and not as individuals.
However, category is not truth, but merely an act of choice driven by hidden agendas and prejudged priorities.
Categories are intrinsically ambiguous.
They can be distorted so that most of the data is 'on message', while awkward numbers are ignored.
Reduced to statistics, both human problems and problem humans are made anonymous.
Brutally insensitive decisions and actions are reduced to bookkeeping.
As a paper exercise, otherwise unpleasant acts are purified.
Treated as mere statistics, the unemployed, homeless, hospital waiting lists, alcoholics and other drug addicts, the mentally ill are all made invisible.
Through statistics, society becomes well-behaved, tidy, controllable.
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