As Christopher Browning notes in “Ordinary Men” of Milgram’s observations:
“In Milgram’s experiments, ‘overarching ideological justification’ was present in the form of a tacit and unquestioned faith in the goodness of science and its contribution to progress.”
Scientism is the new religion, in my opinion.
Agreed! Although I’d spell it $cientism.
As Christopher Browning notes in “Ordinary Men” of Milgram’s observations:
“In Milgram’s experiments, ‘overarching ideological justification’ was present in the form of a tacit and unquestioned faith in the goodness of science and its contribution to progress.”
See my “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) for more relevant quotes from Browning as well as Milton Mayer’s eerily applicable “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45.”
Right. Also touched on this in my “Letter to an Agree-to-Disagree Relative” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative) in my link from “megalomaniacal self-styled gods” to Schwab Family Values (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/), which traces his Nazi origins.