One of the mantras we have heard ad nauseum since the beginning of the COVID situation has been that we need to follow the science.

This phrase is repeated over and over by politicians, by experts, and by celebrities.

Let's end the politics and follow the science.

This phrase must be expressed with a certain level of condescension, implying strongly that your

ideological or political enemy is not following the science. And if they did follow the science,

then they would naturally agree with your political position.

We've heard certain political parties mugged Listen to scientists.

We've heard certain political parties smugly even call themselves the party of science.

Now, we could argue all day long over who is actually following the science, and people do, pointing fingers at each other, and going down the dreadful line of clickbait headlines citing some new study which suggests how their position is the one following the science.

But to do that is already to miss the force for the trees, because it is actually simply,

and dare I say technically impossible to simply follow the science.

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

The question is far more important than just surrounding the current COVID situation.

It's rather the sign of the general blind materialism which rules the common discourse. We're wowed by the scientific priestly cast.

We only need to look at the type of reverence the media placed around Dr. Fauci in the United States.

But like I said, despite our officials constantly repeating this mantra,

it is impossible to just follow science, at least not at the outset. When science is doing

what it's supposed to, it's an accurate and quantifiable description of phenomena at a certain

level of reality. And so because phenomena happen in a predictable pattern,

then once you've described a phenomena accurately enough,

it can be possible to produce the same phenomena with similar conditions.

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