 What happened was religion was replaced by a new religion called science science is a religion And I'm not saying that it's just a religion where that religion is bad But it's a religion it rests on metaphysical principles that are taken for granted such as everything that is real can be quantified and measured such as variables can be controlled Such as experiments are in theory repeatable That they don't depend on the attitude of the experimenter and the place and time where he is That there's an objective world outside of ourselves like these these are a few of the metaphysical assumptions of science and then you have a priesthood that speaks in their own special language you have True believers you have heretics you get excommunicated when they lose their funding you have a long Training or deal called graduate school to initiate you into the priesthood You have a system for indoctrinating the youth. I mean the whole thing Yeah, it tells you how the world began like a religion does tells you the nature of a human being the whole thing is religion and It has provided that certainty that you were talking about for a long time But now it is breaking down. It's breaking down because the paradise that it promised Has not come to pass. Like we were this is 2021 man. That like you're maybe a little younger than me But when I was a kid Even the year 2000 was like this impossibly futuristic paradise You know 2021. I mean we were supposed to be like You know gods by now, but instead life has gotten worse People are for example less healthy than they were 50 years ago Life expectancy is plateauing and starting to decline in the UK and the United States Yeah, life expectancy rose in the first half of the 20th century it rose by 26 years in the US in the second half of the 20th Century it rose by maybe six years now. It's it's plateaued and even before COVID it was starting to decline Another promise was we were gonna engineer all poverty and crime out of existence Political science was going to give us a perfect government. I mean it didn't happen So we're losing faith in science and people are having experiences that don't fit into science That science says are impossible these scientists in a way that like another way that they're like priests is that they perform these divination Rituals using their sanctified instruments their their microscopes their computers and It's like it's like consulting an oracle and then they come and tell the public What the future is going to be and now like you're saying there's basically a schism and some of the priests are telling us one thing and a minority of them are telling us something else and yeah How do you know what to believe? You can go and look at the data yourself and make your own interpretations But if even PhDs are vehemently disagreeing on the interpretation of it And even more today even on the validity of the data itself Because it's like well that data has been adjusted, you know and and and the more that science is politicized and woven into political narratives that are Weaponized to defeat the other side the less reliable data is because if your goal is to defeat the other side then It's totally justified to change the data or or to be very hostile To data that doesn't fit your narrative and subject it to intense scrutiny But if it does fit your narrative, you just welcome that I mean we see this happening in all the COVID the vaccine conversations as well So so basically we are facing a religious crisis right now Just like the one that the West faced, you know 300 years ago in the transition from Christianity to science. We're facing another one right now. That's profoundly disorienting So so how do you know how can you choose in a way like if you're honest with yourself today? There's no choice but to be uncertain