[noobker]

You appear to be strawmaning this piece to a large degree.

The necessity for humans to find meaning isn't ignored or argued as anything other than "how human brains work", in the piece.

The Database metaphor isn't a separation of raw data from narrative -- it's recognizing that in the modern zeitgeist, the abundance of data is so vast that a new experience has emerged that supersedes any Narrative, that's the Database: a super collection of all raw data as well as the known paths through it.

The existence of the Database then calls into question the validity of any one Narrative, and the rest of the piece follows.

* No need to reference NIH.