A river runs next to the path I always walk on. A lump of concrete is left in the river.
I know that the concrete waste
that greatly impedes the flow of the river is actually a fragment of a railroad pier.
Decades ago, a small railroad was operating just to carry the soil used to reclaim the revetment located downstream of the river.
Such a small event was not investigated by anyone and is now an old tale known only to some in the town.
If the flow of the river rises due to a sudden heavy rain, the old tale will be submerged and disappear. They only show up when the rivers are low.
Perhaps no one has guessed the ideal flow of this river. Even if the water level of the river rises or falls, the revetment will not be repaired unless some actual damage is confirmed.
Why is the score adopted as an evaluation standard?
We find it a bit annoying when we make a qualitative assessment of things. That is because we must unify the various qualitative evaluation criteria of each of us.
For example, let’s say you see something or experience something and find it nice. Can you assert that your assessment is fair?
What is the rationale for a certain subject being nice? That’s because it’s nice. How compelling is this reasoning?
And since our ancestors began to contract something with each other, they adopted quantitative indicators to make the qualitative assessment as fair as possible. In short, things started to be scored.
Numbers are terrifyingly objective symbols, so using numbers can easily overwhelm personal appreciation. That is fairness.
The all-purpose god named Numerical or Score replaced all personal sentiment with a rule named fairness.
Then, a big mistake occurred at that time. We started to mistake that the higher the number, the more valuable a certain object was.
Moreover, no one wanted to know the contents of the numbers.
The concrete mass on the surface of the water has three prominent protrusions, with birds occasionally resting their wings.
Three black birds were perched in three places.
But if you think about it for a moment, you’ll soon find out. There are many black birds flying around here. There are more than three birds.
It would be pitiful if those three birds were territorializing the place.
Because the territory often sinks to the bottom of the river.
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That’s all for today’s post. Thank you
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