>be me
>watching the game of thrones producer adaptation of 3 body problem
>one of the core elements of 3 body problem is a science/physics apocalypse
>physics is meddled with in a way our scientists can't even comprehend, and thus they begin to suicide or go mad because reality is fake and so on

>western adaptation simply doesn't even try to sell this idea, the characters have zero belief in science to begin with
>stakes are changed to financial/status losses (of the girlbosses being oppressed! oh noes)
>clearly we don't worship capital by itself either, since we are destroying our industries for this belief

It kinda made evident that we are indeed way past illuminism culturally. We didn't trade God for Science. We traded truth itself for an unattainable immaterial utopia, with post-modern critical theory.
That is the real name of the western culture, for the brief moment it will exist before collpasing.