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We have learnt to look at the world through ratings, reviews, and whether a place is “Instagrammable.”
Nuance is pressed flat into a system of stars.
Even mountains and valleys are scored on Google Maps,
while countless unassuming places slip silently through the net.
I often wonder, ruefully, how much we are missing when only the ranked and the rated rise to the surface.
It begins to feel as though such systems are not merely cataloguing the world,
bu…