Romanticism

A new form of romanticism is leading young people to reject rationalism and science, as well as technology.

The specific forms of technology that the article mentions are oppressive forms: online dis-services and nonfree software. There are valid rational reasons to reject them -- but if you ignore those reasons, and give way to a thoughtless reject, that will not lead you to make good choices.

The person who told us to "listen to the scientists" was Greta Thunberg, and she was talking specifically about climate scientists and their modeling of coming global climate catastrophe. We know full well who wants us not to listen to them, and spends millions of dollars to distract us from them.

Science is not perfect, and individual scientific conclusions can be wrong, But science, when practiced properly and honestly, is our best tool for collectively finding and correcting each other's errors and our own. To reject scientific thinking is not only foolish, it is asking for trouble, even gigadeaths. It can amount to genocide against the human race, and millions of other species too.