Data is not truth

For it misses everything that cannot be measured and reduced to zeros and ones.

It fails to account for perspective, worldview, beauty, violence, love, awe.

It strips everything that makes us human, and asks that we become machines.

The era we are entering has placed data on the new altar. The god of our times.

It fuels obscene wealth for the few while extracting our data-captured lives.

The gods of data use their weapon to manipulate, obfuscate, capture and incite. If they want a story to be told, they point to a data set as evidence. Fools are we to give data that power.

We revere its message. And as we do, we lose the connectivity of gorgeous relationships, and all the trials that come with relationships that matter.

To think data is truth is to risk persecuting actions and experiences, at a huge cost, while refusing to consider the whole.

The price – our health and sanity, our precious home planet, justice, dignity and equality.

Published June 2nd 2026. Photo taken June 2nd 2026