nonquantifiable and Rorschach test are very far from the same thing. most of what matters in human affairs is not adequately represented by quantities. 1/

what is the quantity that distinguishes the groups fighting for a sliver of land between the river and sea? take their vitals, the numbers are about the same. 2/

yet there is something real, something less idiosyncratic than a Rorschach test, that means they’ve spent decades in an ever spiraling conflict that now threatens to burn down the world. 3/

and still we can’t quantify the distinction between them. /fin