What Comes After Science?
11th May 2018
Severian is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
Karl Marx’s greatest trick was gussying up his bargain-bin, Hegel-lite, junk philosophy as “science.” With the stroke of a pen, grave character defects were transformed into high virtues — envy and hatred were now just a dispassionate analysis of the dialectical materialist Forces of History, and ever since, Leftists have claimed that their every opinion is a scientific fact. They’re not just spouting whatever bullshit will let them get their momentary virtue fix; they’re telling it like it is.
The problem is, of course, science doesn’t work like that… and not even liberals can deny it anymore. So what comes next? They’re not going to give up self-congratulation — that smugly superior smirk is the only thing holding their faces together. They’ll have to find some new way to be comprehensively Better Than Us.
They’ve had this problem before. Prior to WWII, ‘progressives’ were all about eugenics and involuntary sterilization of ‘deplorables’, all because Science was on their side. (Too bad that Nazis ruined it for them.)
May 12th, 2018 at 10:42
The “higher ground” they have been pontificating from has been growing smaller by quantum leaps for a while. It still does not deter them from condescension from thin air.
Frank Turek has undercut their perch wholesale with his book, “Stealing from God”. For this reason alone it is worth reading. Among other pithy comments he writes, “What does science say? Nothing. Scientists do. And they often make statements that are not based on science.”
The only authoritative stronghold they still occupy is hip sheek. Once that’s gone, well, they’ll think of something…