New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 50
Woke Marxism is a cult. In being a cult, it operates like an “initiate society,” and the initiation into the cult is largely but not wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language. As it turns out, this is a pretty consistent feature of cults, especially gnostic cults like Woke Marxism is. In technical language, gnostic cults are esoteric cults, and their language often has two meanings at once. One of these meanings is the everyday meaning they want you to think of when they use words like diversity, inclusion, belonging, sustainability, and so on: the exoteric meaning. The other is the coded meaning cult members understand: the esoteric or hidden meaning. Understanding this feature of Woke language manipulation not only clarifies their behavior but also makes clear that we’re dealing with a cult. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he explains this feature of the Woke Marxist cult.
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The “exoteric” versus “esoteric” dichotomy has been clear for several years, but James has provided some valuable language and tactics. (Prior to today, I didn’t even know the definition of the word “esoteric”, but I could see the concept in practice in regards to DEI). Also, the “Motte and Bailey fallacy” has been clear for a long time, but without the proper term, it’s hard to apply the argument in a hostile situation.
Sadly, I believe that humans can persist in utilizing a Motte and Bailey fallacy without even a single member of a sub-group being aware that they’re doing it, and they are completely resistant to any attempts to be made aware of what they’re doing.
Many years ago in a friendly debate with a philosophy professor I countered, “That’s just semantics”. He responded, “Everything is semantics.” Then I learned about semiotics.
Talk about confounding the language. Tower of Babel indeed.
James continues to pick apart the psychopath’s use of language and ideas to confuse people. For a psychopath, all people are potential enemies. So this strategy gets widely applied by the psychopath.
I would not choose to lean so much on the “cult” idea, as that concept has been taken over by psychopaths for a long time. They used to be called “deprogrammers.” They regularly harmed people in the name of removing them from “cult influence.”
Democracy, in its extreme, means mob rule. You can’t have democratic decision making without giving individuals strong support for their human rights. Throw out basic human rights and you open the door to criminals using “acceptable” values and ideas to commit mass murder.