admire its own paralysis, possessed of no desire or purpose other than maintaining a range of narcotic narcissism. , predatory, sentimental, exciting reference in school children providing a shelter for dust that's. language design to sanction it ignorance and preserve privilege and that to me is the language of scientism. and talk about capitalism. talks about the barbaric part in one of your books and connect the ideology in scientism with the capitalist devouring of the earth. >> one of the constant themes if you will of scientism is the idea that we are machines, that we are like computers. if we want to talk up the brain we have to talk about its wiring and this is not only thoughts on the face of it but actually no evidence that the brain is like this. they are using a metaphor for this far more labile dynamic and changeable then wiring will allow. this assumption has been one of the things that most of the books of neuroscience have been most consistent about. and the ideological function of that idea is i think think pretty clear. for example it in relation to creativity, there is this id