A panoptic regime that insists only natural explanations are admissible; any appeal to supernatural, spiritual, or even emergent properties that are not reducible to physics is treated as error or deception. The naturalistic panopticon monitors for “woo,” “mysticism,” or “superstition,” and punishes it with mockery, pathologization, or social exclusion. It is enforced by a priesthood of materialist orthodoxy. The result is a flattened ontology where only the measurable is real, and where the richness of human experience is reduced to whatever fits the naturalistic frame.
Example: “He described a sense of awe in the forest, and was told that was just neurons firing—the naturalistic panopticon had translated wonder into a pathology.”
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 6, 2026
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