Scientism is the unwarranted belief in science as the answer to all problems.  There is a difference between the physical sciences and the social sciences.  The physical sciences are decided—not a final decision—by causality.  The social sciences are conscious human beings acting.  Saint-Simon, Comte, Marx, Engels, and statists up to modern day mask their totalitarian plans in what Mises referred to as The Cult of Science.

There’s not one statist ideology, there’s many.  The statists will praise the ideology, so long as it is theirs, and requires all to submit to it.  The statist worships their ideology and is intolerant of all other ideologies.  It requires complete subjection to succeed.  Failure to submit results in destruction, just look at the many “camps” that people have been sent to, e.g., concentration camps, gulags, etc.

In spite of the failure of statism, the calls for statism have doubled down.  Statist failures are blamed on capitalism.  This is believed because education is abysmal.  It’s impossible to understand capitalism, love humanity, and hate capitalism.  There is complete abhorrence for freedom.  They long for statism, so long as them and their friends are in charge.  They will take what they can get if you give it to them.  The oppression of all of those who do not worship the ideology.  Ideas are what matters in the long run. 

Man is a social animal.  People will cooperate to achieve a higher standard of living.  This is not out of sympathy, but the feeling does emerge from cooperation.  However, there are some asocial individuals.  They have a high time preference and don’t want to produce before they consume.  They’d rather engage in aggression than cooperate.  Breathing is not aggression, given they are not breathing on your face, etc.  Breathing falls under de minimis—it’s an insignificant amount.  At all times, you are exhaling poison.  An injunction cannot be issued by a court for breathing.

It’s time we take de La Boétie‘s advice, “Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer…fall of his own weight and break.” He continued, “It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Theory and History