With Liberty & Justice For All, Session 1 of 3
The Left moves operationally and according to a battle logic known as “dialectical political warfare.” The dialectic is the operating system of the Left, and it works by marrying a truth to a lie. Political warfare is a method of conducting warfare in which political means are used with hostile intent to get an enemy to behave in a desired fashion—propaganda is a great example. Perhaps the greatest dialectical political warfare tactician in human history is the monstrous figure of Mao Zedong, Communist dictator of China until his death in 1976. His tactics and cultural revolution are a testament to the fearsome and destructive power of dialectical political warfare, and they’re happening here in America and throughout the West today. Where Mao claimed to be employing “Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics” in China, the “Woke” and environmental “Sustainability” movements we face in the present should be described as “Maoist Marxism with American Characteristics.” In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay, the parallels between our experience today and the tools utilized in China under Mao will be made so clear that the unavoidable conclusion will be that we are living through nothing less than American Maoism.
Session 2: Reaction is the Real Action
Session 3: How to Stop a Cultural Revolution
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I love that JL understands Christianity. Thank goodness! It makes a big difference that he is not completely alientated from the faith. We can’t fight a culture war without deploying the mountain of religion that is standing right there. Christianity, like Judaism, puts God first, not the state. It vests moral authority in God, not man. This makes all the difference because man can not handle moral authority without becoming a dicatator.
(Rod Dreher had an interesting piece that made something clear. The original purpose of Christianity was to protect vulnerable women and children from the sexual predation of powerful men. That’s all. They did this through the construct of sin. Sadly people stopped talking about sex in the church and you can see what happened next.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/sex-the-final-christian-generation/?fbclid=IwAR2h5DFf8xqW18Lmn6B9fm4eaJRRdLyERYx99Tlxi7INXHhTV2tUXk63pnU )
Christianity – Democracy – Capitalism are the three pillars of Western civilization. They empowered the average man to rise up, be his best and serve the common good. The Commies are coming for all of it. Thank you for fighting the good fight James. I can’t wait to hear your next lecture about how to take them down.
“Christianity, like Judaism, puts God first, not the state. It vests moral authority in God, not man. ”
This assertion is expressive of false metaphysics. Every Western religion defines its god as a supernatural creative cosmic entity. It is a metaphysical impossibility; therefore, in reality, it is just a fictive construct, a product of human imagination, nothing more. To regard a fictive construct, the practices of worshipping it, and the dictatorship of the mob that is democracy as “pillars of Western Civilization” is to support ideas that, in invariable practice, have resulted in economic ruin, dictatorship, and slaughter. Common to both religions and democracy is the insidious moral code of self-sacrifice, with a deity, “majority rule”, or “the common good” being the recipients of the sacrifices. It is the collectivistic moral code of every expression of Statism: Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Theocracy, a code based upon the denial of the reality and efficacy of the exclusively human faculties of reason and volition, and thus the denial of the primacy and sovereignty of the individual in society.
i disagree with Jame’s claim there is no maosism in america and a cultural revolution wont happen in america.
commenter wrote: “…beasting around the bush…”
This phrase is either a wonderful deliberate coinage or an incredibly revealing Freudian Slip. After reading your stream of angry insults, I’d guess the latter.
re “New Atheism”: You’re giving far too much credit to a preposterous phenomenon that was never anything but a cringe-making silly fad.
And your angry personal insults undermine your arguments. James Lindsay has added immeasurable to the body of knowledge needed for a counter-revolution against what Thomas Sowell calls the “vision of the anointed” (see Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”) aka Woke, Left, progressive, etc.
And your appraisal of James Lindsay’s investigation of gnosticism is simply wrong. Gnosticism Analysis is only marginally related to its historical reality (or any “religious” meaning or anti-meaning) but is instead a Metaphor for an aspect of Human Nature (the perpetual social reincarnation of the “anointed”) that is completely destructive.
Read: Aron, Camus, Conquest, Dostoevsky, Erasmus, Koestler, Meerloo, Nock, Scruton, Shafarevich, Solzhenitsyn, Talmon, Wolfe, Voegelin, and Zamyatin, for starters. (If you are a Christian then read Jesus’ words about “whited sepulchers” to get the idea.)
These critical analyses of the Intellectual Anointed’s reign of ego (gnostic metaphor = elitist man acting as God over “lower” humans) and its resultant societal chaos (for their own “superior” gain and ordinary people’s “inferior” loss) is what “gnosticism” as a metaphor for this, the most destructive aspect of human nature, means.
@D Thirteen
“The anointed” are the psychopaths and sociopaths who have been present infecting and troubling every society throughout human history, the ones who, with their delusional visions and narcissicm, “think” themselves entitled by “right” (typically a “divine right”) to rule and enslave the world. Long before psychology began and developed to the point of being able to identify and conceptualize their personalities, mystics, including the Gnostics, and authors, including most of the ones you mention, struggled to describe them by using metaphors. They are, in fact, the exception among human beings, not the rule. If they were the rule, human beings would have gone extinct many centuries ago.
Good points. I find that the “divine right” of the Anointed is invariably Self-Divine no matter what stolen skin suit they’re wearing at any historical moment. And, yes, fortunately the Anointed are small in number; however, there’s another much larger perpetual cohort of people whose debased human nature makes them the real threat to humanity: the Lackeys of the Anointed.
The Anointed wannabes: the ingratiating asslickers; obsequious apparatchiks; imperious nomenklatura; fawning court eunuchs; ALL bureaucrats; vile grovel-flunkies; greedy sycophantic functionaries; haughty tenured academics; brown-nosing culture vultures; supercilious vain lying media; smug-thug psychotic “teachers”; unionized public-servant gutter worms; and all of the vicious passive-aggressive Pecksniffian lickspittles who manage and inflict the Anointed’s reigns of terror for the Lackeys’ own self-aggrandizement, sadism and personal vengeance. Lackeys torment their own people because they fear and despise anyone who refuses to be a Lackey. They smear non-Lackeys as inferior to themselves to justify their own Lackey ressentiment, self-loathing, cruelty and revenge.
It’s these Scum-Servants of the Anointed who are swelling in number and wreaking havoc on our civilization. We all know who they are. We see them in the media (they crave attention). We live amongst them and humour them by “playing nice” to avoid their wrath. Many of them are our own family members, “friends”, neighbours and co-workers. We know their names. We “tolerate” them and go-along-to-get-along in justifiable fear of them. We rationalize our accedence and submission to Lackeys by using our own personal principles, ethics or beliefs to help us ignore culpability for our predicament. We put our fingers in our ears and sing la-la-la to distance ourselves from Lackeys’ calumnies while they lock us in our homes, confiscate our bank accounts, imprison us without trials and mock us as “inferior deplorable rube/peasants” who should be and will be exterminated.
The anti-Woke counter-revolution’s greatest challenge is not overthrowing the Anointed (as they fall, new Molochs take their place). The real challenge is understanding, naming, refusing and dethroning as many Lackeys of the Anointed as possible to decrease the surface population of our real tormentors.
One of the great books of the 20th century is Wild Swans by Jung Chang, the history of 3 generations of Chinese women. The author’s mother was an early member of the CCP; she and her husband were simply working for a better future for China. Wonderful people of integrity, they were leaders who then ran foul of the Red Guard. Jung Chang herself grew up during this period of destruction, changing from a worshiper of Mao to a young woman who longed to flee China. She also wrote a biography of Mao. Wild Swans is an important historical document, but also a very moving account of a lovely family. The only thing possible against reading the book is that is 700 pages long, but the only thing wrong with that from my point of view is that it isn’t enough. I have read it right through twice in English and twice in Spanish. Still banned in China of course.