{"id":6666,"date":"2023-08-23T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:03:26","slug":"pay-attention-to-what-is-important-not-just-what-is-quantifiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2023\/08\/23\/pay-attention-to-what-is-important-not-just-what-is-quantifiable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/donellameadows.org\/archives\/dancing-with-systems\/ \">https:\/\/donellameadows.org\/archives\/dancing-with-systems\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can\u2019t measure. You can look around and make up your own mind about whether quantity or quality is the outstanding characteristic of the world in which you live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If something is ugly, say so. If it is tacky, inappropriate, out of proportion, unsustainable, morally degrading, ecologically impoverishing, or humanly demeaning, don\u2019t let it pass. Don\u2019t be stopped by the \u201cif you can\u2019t define it and measure it, I don\u2019t have to pay attention to it\u201d ploy. No one can precisely define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can precisely define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren\u2019t designed to produce them, if we don\u2019t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via https:\/\/donellameadows.org\/archives\/dancing-with-systems\/ &#8220;8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-1Jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}