The Way (part 2)

When you have zero evidence, 

every assumption is basically equal. 

You prefer to see causes rather than effects, 

signals in the noise, patterns in the randomness. 

You prefer easy-to-understand stories, 

& thus turn everything in life into a narrative 

so that complicated problems become easy. 

The Way works to remove the narrative, 

to boil it away, 

leaving behind only the raw facts. 

Those data sit there naked & exposed 

so they can be reflected upon 

& rearranged by each new visitor. 

Scientists & laypeople will conjure up new stories using the data, 

& they will argue, but the data will not budge. 

They may not even make sense for a hundred years or more, 

but thanks to the scientific method, 

the stories, full of biases & fallacies, 

will crash against the facts & deliquesce.