New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 31
Woke Marxism might more accurately be called Woke Gnosticism, which is technically redundant. Gnosticism is one of the ancient “Esoteric” religions that has spawned cults, some weird and some dangerous, since Antiquity. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay gives a brief introduction to the Gnostic mindset and why it is the best characterization for the Woke phenomenon, Marxism, and all the rest. Join him to gain unprecedented clarity on these issues!
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The Gnostics knew what they were talking about. Like everyone else, they got too dogmatic and not practical enough. But if you want to look at why humans strive so much for freedom, it is because they are imprisoned.
The only reason “the knowledge” needed to be hidden was that you were punished for becoming aware of it. Marx didn’t get any of this. I would think of him as a reactive philosopher, and that he fell into the Gnostic pattern simply because it was a pattern.
Today the knowledge needed to escape the prison is no secret. However, you can still become a social outcast for becoming aware of it. If you use it wisely, this social reaction becomes less problematic.
The practices and utterances of today’s Left are violently unaware and I should probably reject them being characterized as falling into the Gnostic pattern. But their gut experience of the body (or planet, etc.) as a prison is totally valid. The Left’s reaction to this experience is psychotic. I am sure our jailers are very happy with the Left.
Rebirth? That’s reincarnation. We are trapped in the Earth system of reincarnation.
Now, James’ problem is that he believes this is all a pile of BS. But it isn’t. The basic facts are quite true. That is why the Left have such power today and have had power in the past. If the Right doesn’t realize this and reform their own thinking to include a more sensible (less reactive) response to these truths, they will never attain the power and control they seek, even though they probably deserve it.
Sociologist. .you nailed it pretty well regarding mental illness and the course the queer and tranz path followers tread. Great information. The salient point here is the issue of mental illness. Marx seems to overlook any reality at all in the field of the individual and their actual inner mental workings. Every thing is determined by class and economic factors. That gets pinned into woke thinking and the resultant blaming and victimization game is amped up. to explain everything. But these clowns cant get around the the facts when humans get screwed up and commit suicide or become manic. Reality doesn’t change or bend for nobody. Marx went so far as to think that the physical world itself such a natural forces would change when true communism was reached. Or so he overlooked the influences of them on society. As he posits monetary law itself alone rules the roost of human affairs, then even droughts and hurricanes will disappear when the world is woke.
Ward, I think that Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata” captures the essence of Stoicism. Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” (Marcus’s actual title was “To Yourself” in Greek) discusses several of its principles that Marcus strove to live by. I aver that, for centuries, people “mysticized” reality by seeking states beyond it that were, in fact, delusional or imaginary constructs, creative and ritualized misinterpretations of reality arising from their ignorance of the nature of its constituents; or, in the case of the “woke” and their ilk, their pathological desire to control, enslave, and slaughter people, arising from their willful self-disownment, their self-hatred, and fear.
Don’t mean to preach here but Mysticism if I can use that word is expressed by the several traditional spiritual paths. Buddhism, Adavita, Sufiism, Taoism and so forth. These teachings basically claim there is NO way out or possibility to transcend form and realty so stop struggling and being at odds with existence. . Face YOUR own self and and accept the Great Way or Truth that iS only always here and now. In Tao they speak of Wu Wie or being in harmony with the movement of life. Go with the flow and discover the peace that is not ever not present. So do the Stoics also see life. I AM That. The effort to evade the mundane will only bring more misery.
For most folks this is not what they want to hear because it will will up end their game. It is too simple and may seem dull and boring. But the grade of perception that comes out of accepting it is sublime. Too have a sense of blame or complaint is the mind set of inner poverty and darkness.
Marx and his ilk , SJW and the woke can only perceive a world that lies in the future. As they are projecting mental pictures as an escape from the present. The Buddhists refer to this as Maya or illusion, the belief in and acceptance of false notions of human life. Anger is food for them.