By "scientistic" I mean that the capitalist notion of #science is really based on *scientism*, the irrational assignment of metaphysical and moral values to what's supposed to be an empirical field of provisional collective knowledge. Capitalism has two chief irrational demands of Science™: it's supposed to be infallible and as authoritative as the tablets of Moses, and yet it's also supposed to be protean and mercurial and always bursting with possibilities.
This has brought about a familiarly two-faced, doublethinkful notion of Science™ as divided into two irreconcilable halves: there's **"soft sciences"** which are permitted to remain permanently chaotic, and "**hard science**" which is treated as permanently "objective" and indisputable. The dividing line between the two halves is fluid and fractal in nature and, needless to say, intensely political in nature.
(cont'd)
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
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