Very understandable phenomenon. We live in an age where science is depicted as objective knowledge that carries society to greatness, and not as a method of always trying to prove yourself wrong so that you map a practical understanding of a topic.
Lack of materialism scream from those types. They might stopped believing in deity figures, but they just found themselves a new idol.
And the worst is of course actual scientists who treat politics as a math problem because they think social science is just too easy for them and they can just figure it all out, like the german physicist lady on YouTube
For some reason this reminded me of Asimov's Foundation and the Seldon plan: let's translate social sciences to a math and predict a future with hard science. Best of all, it was nothing of sorts, even regardless of how that's impossible, in universe they straight up relied on magic and the actual plan was "mind control neobarbarians for 1000 years and prepare them for the enlightened rule of psychic ubermensch aristocracy".
Lack of materialism scream from those types. They might stopped believing in deity figures, but they just found themselves a new idol.
For some reason this reminded me of Asimov's Foundation and the Seldon plan: let's translate social sciences to a math and predict a future with hard science. Best of all, it was nothing of sorts, even regardless of how that's impossible, in universe they straight up relied on magic and the actual plan was "mind control neobarbarians for 1000 years and prepare them for the enlightened rule of psychic ubermensch aristocracy".