The Collapse of Scientific Materialism
(whatever)And the end of the Enlightenment. Ted Gioia
correctly observes ten warning signs of the comprehensive collapse of the knowledge system known as “modernity”.
Scientific studies don’t replicate.
Public distrust of experts has reached an intensity never seen before.
The career path for knowledge workers is breaking down—and many only have unpaid student loans to show for their years of training and preparation.
Funding for science and tech research is disappearing in every sphere and sector.
Universities have lost their prestige, and have made enemies of their core constituencies.
Plagiarism is getting exposed at all levels from students to corporations—and all the way to Harvard’s president. But the authorities just take it for granted.
AI is imposed everywhere as the new expert system. But when it hallucinates and generates ridiculous responses, the authorities (again) take this for granted.
Science and technology are increasingly used to manipulate and exploit, not serve. People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.
Scandals are everywhere in the knowledge economy (Theranos, Sam Bankman-Fried, collapsing meme coins, COVID, etc).
We hear constant bickering about “fake science”—from all political and ideological stances. Nobody talks about “true science.”
All of these things are the direct result of the subversive attack on Christendom by Clown World. It is not possible to have science without truth, and it is not possible for Man to recognize truth while rejecting Truth. Modernity is a spiritual and philosophical sickness that is based upon a false foundation of subversion and groundless pride.
Every virtue of Clown World is a vice. Every stated truth is a lie. And it is not possible to build anything, from a functioning school to a thriving society, on what is, in the end, a philosophy of parasites.
What comes next is collapse, followed by the harsh and pitiless rule of those whose devotion to God, truth, and beauty will no know mercy for those who ruined the world due to their stupid and futile ambition to make themselves gods.