Anyone who has seen Adam Curtis' documentary, "The Trap," will find this familiar. Our society has become so obsessed with quantification that we have become b

Anyone who has seen Adam Curtis' documentary, "The Trap," will find this familiar. Our society has become so obsessed with quantification that we have become blind to any other ways of understanding the world around us, and made us poorer in our analysis, instead of being more informed with more information. It is like saying that if something cannot be measured, then it does not exist.