The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 92
We have to talk about Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). It’s not the first time it’s been addressed here on the New Discourses Podcast, but the full picture hasn’t been painted for you yet. Social-Emotional Learning is evil and must be stopped. It isn’t a nice little program to help at-risk kids deal with the difficulties of learning. It’s the central pillar of a nefarious attempt to remake and control society. Host James Lindsay walks you through a number of sources promoting and describing Social-Emotional Learning in unprecedented depth, breadth, and clarity in this long but crucial episode of the podcast. Join him to understand why Social-Emotional Learning and the mechanisms that enable it must be removed from our schools as soon as possible and the people who have implemented it need to be investigated and held accountable.
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I literally just saw a spot on PBS about pushing SEL. And it’s in a school district near where I live. All I could say was “oh no…”
Thank you. There is SO MUCH in here. I would LOVE it if you’d publish a precis version of your pint – bullet points, outline or whatever to share with others. I have shared a link to this with others, but many busy school moms and dads just don’t have time for a 4 hour podcast.
Agreed.
We need an accessible documentary laying it out such that anyone can see the development and issues.
Excellent podcast. Can you please post the sources you were reading from? I would like to check them out and share with others. Thank you.
Me too
Thank you for combing through all these policies and documents to pull out the evil agenda hidden within. As I listened to this podcast, I immediately thought of another recent podcast featuring an interview with Yuval Harari (the WEF futurist/transhumanist guru). What I thought was the stuff of science fiction is being meticulously brought into our present reality. Understanding the (mind numbingly dull) tools and techniques “they” are using to achieve their lofty goals of “perfecting” humanity is the only chance we have to stop it before the traps close. Thank you for taking on this work and waking the good people up to what is happening.
Orwell’s The Road to Wigan pier was his discover that the liberal elites backing socialism had *zero* interest in having g it imposed on them.
Nothing new under the Sun…
I broadly agree with James that this whole project is totalitarian; the megalomaniacal dream of these intellectuals is the fully administered and managed society with themselves at the top of the tree. Consequentially, of course, it will just result in chaos and anomie.
Where I disagree with James is in explicitly (or implicitly) denouncing anything Climate Change related and/or sustainable alongside all this crap. By sustainable I mean in the narrow sense (ecological footprint, etc) rather than the strategic prefix it’s become in the hands of the WEF et al. whereby it’s used to shuttle in whatever they want.
Conservatives (and old-school liberals) need to wrestle the mantle of Climate Change out of the hands of the Totalitarian Left. We cannot let these loons monopolise solutions to Climate Change because it’s only a means to their political ends, i.e., to grab power. Moreover, by being tempted to deny Climate Change, because it’s ostensibly a ‘left wing’ project, conservatives look dumb.
commenter wrote: “…by being tempted to deny Climate Change, because it’s ostensibly a ‘left wing’ project, conservatives look dumb.”
Are these 1200 scientists from around the world “dumb conservatives”?
“World Climate Declaration
The climate view of CLINTEL can be easily summarized as: There is no climate emergency. Guus Berkhout therefore initiated the World Climate Declaration, a one-page summary of the view of many climate realists in the world. The Declaration is a living document that is frequently changed based on input from all its ambassadors and other experts.
https://clintel.org/
“The World Climate Declaration (WCD) has brought a large variety of competent scientists together from all over the world. The considerable knowledge and experience of this group is indispensable in reaching a balanced, dispassionate and competent view of climate change.
From now onward the group is going to function as ‘Global Climate Intelligence Group’. The CLINTEL Group will give solicited and unsolicited advice on climate change and energy transition to governments and companies worldwide.
Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. In particular, scientists should emphasize that their modeling output is not the result of magic: computer models are human-made. What comes out is fully dependent on what theoreticians and programmers have put in: hypotheses, assumptions, relationships, parameterizations, stability constraints, etc. Unfortunately, in mainstream climate science most of this input is undeclared.
To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. We should free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models. In future, climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science.”
https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/
Heavy duty , James .
I had a feeling about this , but , thanks to you being willing to wade in and just read what the heck they are saying , and breaking their gobblygook down to understand , i have a firmer grasp on how ominous this really is . We are already in it .
“This should all be illegal.” That’s a nice dream. Where real human rights violalations have occurred, it could even be made to stick.
But in the shorter run I think all we will be able to do is disagree with their programs, build our own structures and schools, and concentrate on cultivating our spiritual strength and survival.
We are facing an adversary that has been working on this for – how long? And who expects its actions to have lasting effects in society for – how long? More than one generation, I am sure of that, and likely for many many generations. Most of us have no idea what lasting effects have already been acheived. Not only do we need to escape their latest snares, we must also learn to free ourseleves from all the snares we have already stepped in.
Dear James,
Thank you for this labor of duty and, I think, of love. I have learned more from New Discourses than from any other source, academic or popular, regarding the corruptive evil we have been facing. After exhausting, I think, this worldly, secular explanations, I have come to believe that there may be forces at work globally, more potent than Freire, and I do not hesitate to call our oligarchs Satanic. I pray that the lessons you have energetically and carefully prepared will be shared beyond the audience that attends to New Discourses. Thank God it is you that have had to read the nauseating material, liberating me to enjoy other thinkers, such as Aristotle and Carl Schmitt (after all, life is short and enjoyments fleeting). Anyhow, at some point we all shall have to reply to Lenin’s question, “What is to be Done?”.
Respectfully,
Bill Baumgarth
You’re not alone, I have similar thoughts. I see what looks like people genuinely bent on starting a civil war and I can’t help but think there’s real evil out there.