The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 29
If we are fortunate enough to leave Wokeness and Critical Theory behind us, we need a map. We need to know what a post-Woke world would look like and, more importantly, which values will get us there. In a recent essay, James Lindsay presented four values he thinks are core to the establishment of a post-Woke world, which can repel Wokeness anywhere they are adopted. These are truth, beauty, liberty (thus responsibility), and merit. Join James in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, wherein he discusses why these are the right values as well as why we should hold the narrow way against other competitors in the space that will not produce results as good, including both the Very Smart “respectability” (blue pill) approach and the relatively hopeless “post-liberal” or “neoreactionary” approach (black pill, mostly).
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Fantastic stuff! You are one of the great thought leaders of our time IMO. You follow the progression of secular religion in a way that few others if any realize. Your thoughts have shaped my own views of life and Christianity. People often ask what is God’s will but ignore the fact that God asks us in return what is our will in a perfect reflection of a true relationship.
I’ve been binge listening to your podcasts (thanks for doing this), and I keep coming away with a sense that these Marxists bear a striking resemblance to post-millennialists that believe that the Church must engage in societal reformation in order to bring about the 2nd coming.
I don’t know how true / influential post-millenialism was in the early 20th century, but I’ve seen it cited quite a bit. Even as a Christian I can’t really understand the mentality. It seems to subvert works of charity into a means to an end that I find distasteful and not in keeping with the Gospel.
At any rate, I haven’t heard or seen any mention or comparison between Marxism and post-millenialism in the early 20th century, so I figured I would throw it out there.