"Scientistic Society"

It is a mistake to forsake the metaphysical for the physical ("scientism", to use one of Richard Weaver's terms), a trend one might say our country is following. Those truths apart from empirical science and those beliefs in which we put our faith and upon which we have previously based our lives are being replaced by “hard truths” apprehended by human reason and intellect. When the concept of virtue is replaced by conditioning and faith is replaced by knowledge, humanity looses a part of itself. When that part, which makes up much of what is admirable and what makes society work, is removed, what is left but those inclinations which were previously held in check by virtue and faith? What would have been expressed in a verbal attack is now made physical, and character assassinations are replaced with the real thing. Lustful fantasies are replaced by adultery and rape, and coveting by theft. There are certain things in human nature that should not be expressed, and the best restraint for them is that which is destroyed by “scientistic thought”.