The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 8
As a society, we’ve discovered very rapidly over the last few weeks just how radical the agenda of the Critical Social Justice (or Woke) movement really is and how much of value and importance it wants to defund, abolish, disrupt, and dismantle, almost nonsensically. In light of this rampant revelation of radicalism, New Discourses founder James Lindsay sits down to his microphone to give an impassioned defense of something almost no one would possibly defend: the status quo.
Such a defense usually falls within the province of far-right conservatism and reactionaries, but this is not Lindsay’s point. He, being neither reactionary nor conservative at all (he is a left-leaning liberal with genuinely progressive views) therefore doesn’t follow the kind of scripts we might associate with such a defense. Instead, he reveals that the demand to dismantle the status quo relies upon yet another tricky play on words. The status quo that the activists seem to call to dismantle doesn’t exist, but the “status quo” they intend to dismantle is the liberal, even progressive system that we call a free society.
Lindsay makes his case by showing that free, liberal systems are already anathema to the kind of “status quo” that progressive activism hyperbolically warns about and thus exposes the radicals of wanting to do something far more revolutionary, sinister, and dangerous. The “status quo” they’re really attacking is that liberal, progressive system, which they intend to replace with nominal radicalism and de jure authoritarian bureaucracy.
Join Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast for a little over an hour of common sense in his liberal defense of the so-called “status quo.”
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A shocking description of the world created by the status quo!
The current world-situation offers only the entropic end-pattern for the disintegration of the human species – which will inevitably become the catastrophic and complete failure of the human species and the total demise of the human species.
The entire pattern and trend of current human culture (or what remains of it) – including scientific and political materialism, all modes of false philosophy, and everything relating to the current domain of consumer based politics, social egoity, competitive social systems, tribal national systems, un-regulated economics, and conventional religion – is about death.
The Earth-world and all of the global human domain have already collapsed far enough. If the pattern of the whole collapses much further, the human life-sphere will not be retrievable.
This is the “ground zero” moment of human history. The whole world is at ground zero now. The entire basis for positive human civilization has been totally destroyed.
Looking forward to exploring your website. Heard you on Glenn Beck this AM
It’s great that more people are noticing his work.