I’m seriously data-sceptic. We are so often told to believe data, to ‘believe the science’, we’ve been sold that platitude more than enough times in the past, and perhaps some people do believe it, and gain comfort in it, and by doing so can accept situations and circumstances that otherwise they could not.
An illusion of truth and security. A comfort blanket of graphs and numbers. A placebo of solutions made accordingly. The problem with data, and ‘science’ when applied as a sales device, be it selling an idea, an opinion, a reality, or a solution, is that it is nonsense. It’s reverse engineered answers. It’s numbers created to fit the narrative and the predetermined outcomes.
More generally, to pretend that politicians don’t have ulterior motives for much of what they do, and try to do, is naive. Some politicians do in reality work for industries and companies, although they are employed as MPs. They have a hidden agenda. And agendas are the bane of truth and reality. Because the agenda is what determines the direction, the motivation, the policies, the funding, and the laws.
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