Disconnected Information: On the Failure of Mediated Truth

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Modern information systems — including so-called alternative media — pride themselves on unveiling truth.
They document, expose, analyze, denounce.
They dissect crises, wars, injustices, and corruption with structural acuity.
But beneath this apparatus of transparency lies a devastating absence:
the absence of self-connectedness.

Information today circulates without incarnation.
It is treated as content, as object, as signal —
rarely as consequence of human disconnection from being. Journalism, no matter how rigorous, becomes performative,
unless it dares to ask not only what happened but why the human became capable of it.

To speak of war without addressing the emotional mutilation that precedes violence,
to document genocide without interrogating the psychic rupture that allows it,
is not only insufficient —
it is a collaboration with the system’s amnesia.

Disconnected information is not neutral.
It normalizes atrocity through repetition.
It gives the illusion of awareness while severing the root of transformation.
It converts suffering into narrative units,
into talking points,
into dinner table discourse for those who remain untouched.

Even critical journalism often remains within the frame of visibility,
mistaking exposure for truth. But truth is not what is shown.
Truth is what touches.
And no information touches when it is disembodied.

Political science, investigative reporting, global commentary —
these practices orbit endlessly around symptoms,
while the core wound — the disintegration of inner truth —
remains untouched, unnamed, undared.

The world is not burning because people are uninformed.
The world is burning because people are severed from their own capacity to feel.

We do not need better reporting.
We need a new ontology of relation.
One that begins not with the event,
but with the exile of the self that made the event possible.

Until then,
information remains a ghost,
haunting our perception,
without ever transforming it.