In reply to Scientism is a problem,
I think its fair to believe that throughout history all peoples have used accumulated sensory experience as useful evidence to speculate about what is likely to happen in the future-I think that is called empiricism. But empiricism isn't Science. To make the claim that all people have /do use science is false. To my mind Science is just another god that should have been killed off when the religious one was a little over a century ago. We might include Progress as another one. Science is the official narrative of reality, the monopoly on truth, made by/claimed by authority. In that sense it is an ideology. Anti-civ people who are opposed to Science aren't opposed to using experience and evidence to learn from. They are opposed to it as another ideology that makes us mere appendages of the spectacle, as a foundation for one of the belief systems of civilization.
I think its fair to believe that throughout history all peoples have used accumulated sensory experience as useful evidence to speculate about what is likely to happen in the future-I think that is called empiricism. But empiricism isn't Science. To make the claim that all people have /do use science is false. To my mind Science is just another god that should have been killed off when the religious one was a little over a century ago. We might include Progress as another one. Science is the official narrative of reality, the monopoly on truth, made by/claimed by authority. In that sense it is an ideology. Anti-civ people who are opposed to Science aren't opposed to using experience and evidence to learn from. They are opposed to it as another ideology that makes us mere appendages of the spectacle, as a foundation for one of the belief systems of civilization.