David Stockman on Scientism and the New Road to Serfdom

It’s long previous time for conservative folks to get up. Today’s terrific hazard to capitalist success, individual liberty and constitutional federal government as we have known it is not Marxism, socialism or any other version of conventional left-wing ideology.

The genuine hazard to liberty is more generic. Instead of a particular history-rooted ideology, such as the working class socialism of the early commercial age, the fundamental threat has actually constantly been the aggrandizement of the state, and the empowerment of the political classes and nomenklatura that grow upon it, whatever the ideology upon which they validated their will-to-power.

And today the car for that impulse of statist growth is Scientism— the false claims that economic science, public health science and environment modification science, to name a few, require sweeping boosts in state intervention and control.

This proposal is not simply a grand abstraction. The recently passed $7 trillion in stimmies, bailouts and infrastructure boondoggles, the Biden Administration’s claims that we have just 9 years until irreversible climate catastrophe, and the ongoing depredations of the COVID Virus Patrols are real time instances of Scientism at work– unnecessarily and destructively extending the long arm of the state deep into everyday financial and social life.

There is no legitimate science that calls for either the extinction of fossil fuels, or lockdowns to stop the spread of an infection like those that have affected humanity because time immemorial, or enormous monetary and financial stimulus to keep commercialism from plunging into the beverage.

These claims total up to created science based on big theories of how the world works, which are essentially goal-seeked. That is, they first presume the climate, public health and economic designs that naturally require heavy-handed state intervention to prevent disastrous results, and then they array the evidence and projections to confirm the predicate.

For example, the natural environment change now underway– as it has been for 4.5 billion years– is basically benign, not devastating. Present warming is absolutely nothing new– it’s taken place consistently from the Middle ages Warm Duration (900– 1300 AD) to the Roman Warming (200 BC to 300 AD) to the Holocene Environment Optimum (7,000– 3,000 BC) and on back in numerous unnamed cycles reaching deep into the history of the planet.

Contrary to the incorrect claims of the environment howlers– current

  • slightly increasing temperature levels remain in keeping with the historical truth that warmer is better for humankind and most other species, too; and
  • climate cycles are a function of powerful planetary forces, such as the eccentricity of the earth’s orbit, which causes glacial epoch in 100,000 year intervals, and solar irradiation oscillations, which modulate cosmic rays and cloud formation. These forces have actually formed the earth’s climate for eons and long preceded and enormously exceed the effect of industrial period CO2 emissions;

Continued planetary equipoise needs no interventions whatsoever by the state to slow down using prosperity-fostering fossil fuels or to support and speed up the adoption of high cost renewable energy.

Editor’s Note: We’ve seen governments set up the strictest controls on individuals and organizations in history. It’s been a speedy elimination of private liberties.

But this is simply the start …

Many people don’t understand the awful things that might follow, including unfavorable rates of interest, the abolition of cash, and much more.

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