Context matters. We can agree that this a baseline principle for our entire life.
Runner enthusiasts often journal their run with the weather conditions, their amount of rest, and their diet for the day. Sports fans debate the GOAT (greatest of all time) for their respective sport, often quoting their candidates’ teammates, opponents, and the time period when arguing.
Yet none of this contextual analysis is afforded to those applying for jobs, school, and life-changing loans for under-resourced individuals when the schools and corporations rely so heavily on uncontextualized data.
In the book “Weapons of Math Destruction”, mathematician Cathy O’Neil…
George Orwell’s “1984” is commonly known as a parable for the dangers of totalitarian government. “Big Brother” is a term often thrown around these days in describing our current government. It almost seems that we have reached the amount of surveillance that Winston was wary of.
However, the lesson from Winston that stuck with me the most is that the working class “proles” were more powerful than they perceived themselves to be. The ability that they had to regain power from the power structures that be.
“But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength…
