The belief that the scientific worldview not only describes empirical reality but should also forcibly replace all other metaphysical, ethical, or spiritual frameworks in society. It advocates for a technocratic dictatorship where "experts" rule by decree, religion is banned, and human values are reduced to neurochemical outputs. It's scientism weaponized into a totalitarian political program, seeking not to understand the world but to engineer a "rational" humanity by any means necessary.
Example: "The manifesto called for scientific extremism: a mandatory genetic registry, state-assigned careers based on cognitive profiles, and the demolition of all 'irrational' architecture like historic churches. It wasn't a love of science; it was a desire to use the authority of science to build a dystopia run by his own ideological clique."
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
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