The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 130
The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. This is a core maxim of Marxist activist thought, and it explains so much. In the early 1990s, the French Postmodernist philosopher Jean Beaudrillard put it another way, though, in a sense. He provocatively published a book with the title The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. What Baudrillard meant is that the Gulf War was an event that happened in the Persian Gulf, but what we call the “Gulf War” was a propaganda and media creation by Western intelligence communities and mass media to achieve specific political warfare aims with the public. In that sense, just like how the issue, whether Covid, BLM, Drag Queen Story Hour, Ukraine, “Palestine,” or whatever else, is never the issue; each of those Current Things did not take place, in the Baudrillardian sense. In this provocative episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains the maxim and Baudrillard’s point and uses them to reveal Leftist tactics as well as political warfare strategies and counters. Join him to understand.
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Good to hear folks are getting tired of having to be outraged all the time in the US. So the current thing is not the thing but sars cov? was somewhat the thing? But covid19 was definetly not the thing. That’s kinda confusing. Maybe what you expect of the sickness plays a big part in the symptoms you experience. The first time I officially tested for covid I was sick as hell fever of almopst 39c, coughing sneezing little breath. I looked like shit and the others who were getting tested tried to stay at least a 100ft away from me. I thought a just had a heavy flu because I didn’t believe covid existed, I associate the word “pandemic” with dead people in the street and in almost every house, can’t do nothing about that.
I was just very curious about the outcome of the test. Guess what? I tested negative!!
The second time I let myself be officially tested was because I thought I covid pass might come in handy (still ashamed about that) I still didn’t believe in it as a sickness. I was nauseated and I had a headache. That was it. I did not even had a sore throat. Hometest was slightly positive if you looked reaaly good in the right light. I got tested officially again and…Bingo!! Covid or whatever. I hit the QR covid pass jackpot! Next day I was OK again. No fever, no cough, let alone a foggy brian. There simply is no better propaganda tool then a infectious disease and there never will be. The covid thing or whatever is was HAD to succeed. A vaccination rate below 95% in the western countries was not an option. If people only knew what kind of war the 20% who didn’t get vaxed won they would have felt so victorious and so unified they would have finished the war. That’s why there was a new current thing and another one very very very fast….
Radical far-Left globalist propagandists such as Wikipedia, MSNBC, SPLC, etc. pretend that anti-Woke dissidents’ research and analysis are conspiracy theories. But here is an example of a Race Marxism “conspiracy theory” and its “praxis” (application and consequences) happening in 2023 in the real world.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has declared Santa Claus and his tyrannical “Christmas” to be racist colonialism that must be banned for the sake of all mohammedans, native “Indians”, transgenders and other oppressed victims of Kris Kringle’s “fascist” Christian white-settler cultural and religious imperialism/apartheid:
“Discrimination against religious minorities in Canada is grounded in Canada’s history of colonialism… [manifested] in present-day systemic religious discrimination [such as] statutory holidays in Canada… related to Christianity, including Christmas and Easter, [being] the only Canadian statutory holidays linked to religious holy days…. Canada’s history with religious intolerance is deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonial state…”
“Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance” Oct 2023
Canadian Human Rights Commission (chrc-ccdp.gc.ca)
The CHRC (Holy Woke Inquisition) provides “evidence” of Santa’s invented “guilt” by quoting the writings (analysed and critiqued in scholarly detail in James Lindsay’s 2022 book “Race Marxism”) of Woke progenitor and Marxian theorist Kimberle Crenshaw:
“Intersectional discrimination/intersectionality… is a concept that recognizes that… various social categories… such as… religion, race, class, gender, physical or mental ability, or sexual orientation, can shape the nature of the discrimination… Kimberle Crenshaw, the scholar who coined the term intersectionality, describes this concept by explaining that a Black [sic] woman… experiences different racism than a Black [sic] man, and different sexism than a white [sic] woman, because her two identities intersect (hence intersectionality)… Applying an intersectional approach means taking into account that… the combined effects of multiple grounds of discrimination can have a greater impact than discrimination based on a single ground.”
(ibid)
The Canadian Human Rights Act (the Marxian theory behind the CHRC Tribunals’ Woke “praxis”) describes some real world non-conspiracy theory consequences for “settler colonial” transgressions of intersectional discrimination:
“If… the [Tribunal] inquiry… finds… the complaint [of discrimination] is substantiated, the [Tribunal] member or panel may… make an order against the person [found guilty of]… discriminatory practice…
(2)… (e) that the [guilty] person compensate the victim, by an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for any pain and suffering that the victim experienced as a result of the discriminatory practice.
…Special compensation
(3) In addition to any order under subsection (2), the [Tribunal] member or panel may order the [guilty] person to pay such compensation not exceeding twenty thousand dollars to the victim… if the [Tribunal] member or panel finds that the [guilty] person… has engaged in the discriminatory practice wilfully or recklessly.”
(laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts)
(see also Mark Steyn’s and Ezra Levant’s circa 2007 separate books on each of their own Orwellian Human Rights Tribunal trials and punishments.)
Citizens found “guilty” by a Woke Inquisition may be fined $40,000 for offending “the oppressed” by displaying a plastic Santa puppet on their front lawns. This is not conspiracy theory. This is Totalitarianism.
Who are “THEY”?
from New Discourses post “An Open Letter to Woke Youth” July 10 2023 comment thread:
Shona says:
JULY 14, 2023 AT 6:13 PM
Yes… Thank you articulating something I have asked James about before. Who are the ‘they’ ? Here in UK I cannot imagine any group this powerful and yet so hidden.
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D13 says:
JULY 16, 2023 AT 7:30 PM
“Who are the ‘they’?”
Check out Jennifer Bilek’s substack where she clearly defines who “They” are. Bilek’s “Who Is Behind The Transgender Agenda” names the billionaires who are using transgender, woke, ESG, etc. as psycho-social, cultural and political steps towards total population control at a biological level with them in control. Bilek names the Big Pharma, bankers, funders, etc. who are recreating human beings for their own profit and power aggrandizement.
Sounds like conspiracy theory and the Left calls it that to stop people from researching it; but these “They” are real people whose books, lectures, videos, etc. state clearly their intentions which are not conspiracy theories but have been actually happening publicly and openly for years on a scale that is shocking.
A sampling of some “They” include:
Billionaire Martin “Martine” Rothblatt and his Terasem Movement Foundation and United Therapeutics Corporation, creator of ‘Bemes’ and ‘Lifenauts’: “Our mission is to promote the… use of nanotechnology for human life extension. We conduct educational programs and support scientific research and development in the areas of cryogenics, biotechnology, and cyber consciousness.” They create post-human “bemes”, the new people.
Billionaire James “Jennifer” Pritzker: Bilek describes Pritzker as “The billionaire family pushing synthetic sex identities (SSI)… have set their sights on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology.”
Billionaire Jon Stryker, founder of the mega-NGO Arcus Foundation, a major funder of the billion dollar “gender affirmation” medical/pharma industrial complex.
Holtzbrinck Group Publishing (HGP) conglomerate, partner of the World Economic Forum who publish the theory behind the practice of ESG, DEI, etc.
Yuval Noah Harari, WEF Futurist and author of “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” (homo deus = Man God). Note the references to Man as God: this theme is parsed by James Lindsay in his extensive research on the Gnostic connection to the “They” behind woke, ESG, etc.
The information about who “They” are is out there.
D13 says:
JULY 17, 2023 AT 8:59 AM
commenter said: “Here in UK I cannot imagine any group this powerful and yet so hidden.” I presume you know about this British “They”:
UK Billionaire Dale Vince, “Green Energy” Industrialist, is the prime funder of Just Stop Oil (upper-middle-class smug rich “protesters” who stop traffic to prevent working class people in London from getting to work while sneering at them for using cars). Vince bankrolled Just Stop Oil to force governments to outlaw petroleum and adopt (subsidize by proxy) his “green” energy investments so that he will earn billions for himself. Here is a British example of a “They” so powerful he can disrupt and damage the daily lives of ordinary people with total immunity by tacit government approval of his lackeys’ terrorist actions against the working class, despised as useless-eater deplorables by all “They” and They-adjacent lackeys.
The Holy Trinity of “They”:
The Father: Billionaire George Soros [now his son Alexander], whose Open Society funds BLM, Antifa, CRT, DEI, ESG, QueerTrans and mass population movement from the third world to destabilize first world countries, etc. etc.
The Son: Billionaire Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) whose Young Global Leaders programs train political and NGO future leaders to infiltrate and transform existing governments/non-profits into WEF-directed policy operatives implementing CRT, DEI, ESG, “climate” and transhumanist goals for total power and population control.
The Unholy Ghost: Billionaire Bill Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds all Globalist-Elite related actions (“diversity” is their mantra) and creates havoc and misery for ordinary people around the world.
[See also Blackrock, UN, Saudi Arabia, etc. See also “MONOPOLY – Who Owns The World? documentary by Tim Gielen, etc.]
Note that the Holy Trinity of Globalism control all media so any attempt to research their negative actions will be blocked by manipulated search engines that show all negative queries as “fact-checked far-right conspiracy theories”. Censorship by slandering queries as “far-right” is the prime tool of “They” and their lackeys to control information flow and curate their corporate image to a woke-whipped public. [For example] WEF’s Young Global Leader graduate/superstar Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau employed this Globalist censorship tool publicly this week [July 2023] when he was filmed telling Muslims who had protested QueerTrans groomer intrusion into their children’s schools that Canadian Muslims were “being fed misinformation by online far-right QAnon-adjacent American conspiracy theorists”.
As usual, very interesting episode. I love your way of breaking down the intricacies “the next current thing”. You may have already addressed this in other places, but, who are “THEY”? As in “their agenda is revolution”. On the ground, at schools, etc…, I see a lot of useful idiots. But, is there a group of people who are pushing for this, or is merely a conspiracy without conspiracists? Or just a loose collection of shared interests that overlap when it’s convenient? Is there coordination or is it more of a bubbling up from bad ideas? I’m curious to hear what you say about this. Thanks.