"The materialistic-mechanistic worldview of classical physics, with its rigid ideas and reductive way of thinking, became the supposedly scientifically legitimated ideology for vast areas of scientific and political-strategic thinking. The progressing uniformity of all ideas of value and affluence, habits of consumption and economic strategies on the pattern of a Western/North American/European knowledge society is still legitimated by a way of thinking that argues for a rational objectifiability of the Wirklichkeit on the basis of secured scientific foundations.
The materialistic-mechanistic worldview of classical physics, with its rigid assumptions and reductionist approach, became the dominant ideology in many fields, including science and politics. This ideology is still used to justify a uniform way of thinking about value, wealth, consumption, and economic strategies, claiming that reality can be objectively understood through scientific foundations.