Constantly bewailing on Nostr: “The concept of normal created a benchmark against which to compare people. The ...

“The concept of normal created a benchmark against which to compare people. The idea of normal people killed the suspension of judgment when contemplating human beings. People who had been individuals with a name suddenly became tokens belonging to a type category. And if the label didn't fit well, the system beat up people into a square until they fit the box. People who had been just themselves became normal or deviant, typical or outliers, mediocre or extraordinary. Galton and his ilk killed the idiosyncratic person. Centuries later, predictive algorithms would inherit these faults, creating social order out of ambiguity and harming those at the margins”