The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 136
Stakeholder Capitalism is a scam. Though not particularly well-known outside of certain business circles, it is the model associated with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. Its basic form is this: the purpose of the company itself has to change, not to serve customers and generate profit for shareholders but instead to “serve all stakeholders.” Its mechanism is also unsurprising: ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance scoring metrics for corporations. Unsurprisingly, its implementation is shockingly corrupt and filled with Marxist distortions. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through a short September 2020 Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance document about corporate incentives packages for ESG and the stakeholder model together with and a crucial portion of Klaus Schwab’s 2022 book, The Great Narrative for a Better Future, to make clear just how corrupt and dangerous the ESG agenda and stakeholder capitalism truly are. Join him to see for yourself.
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Distributism and Subsidiarity have meanings different from how you are using them here.
If you haven’t read Belloc and Chesterton you might want to start here:
https://distributistreview.com/archive/an-introduction-to-distributism?format=amp
”This is what the Gnostic Metaphor represents ”
I see. In the shape of a ‘Gnostic Metaphor’ the digestible to a large degree given its fairly suitable. Otherwise ‘Gnosticism’ as the phantom of this opera is pretty hard to force into position frankly. No matter – because presented as a metaphor the state quickly becomes far more stable. ‘Gnosticism’ – as in it being applied to denote a kind of greed/avarice/misanthropy collective complex is not ‘bad’. I.E ‘Gnosrticism’ – the unholy meshing of human universalist gears that ‘Thinks it is better’ therefore knows its better by consensus ( of its own ). Motivating to do so by wealth and power ? – somehow conflates that with concepts of alpha human superior vs ‘beta’ inferiority ? For they know the wealth fell under romans. For they know the wealth fell under the saxons. Thus this drive of power thru land acquisition by the sword is THE collective confirmation bias system concerning the superior nature of humanity ( or not ). Historically factual – we look back from modern days and a ‘Gnostic’ or sworn ‘fief’ shall declare they know best ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism#:~:text=Neo%2Dfeudalism%20is%20made%20possible,Huggins%20finds.
Quote : ”Neo-feudalism is made possible by the commodification of policing, and signifies the end of shared citizenship, says Ian Loader.[13] A primary characteristic of neo-feudalism is that individuals’ public lives are increasingly governed by business corporations. The concept of neo-feudalism may focus on economics, though it is not limited to it. Among the issues claimed to be associated with the idea of neo-feudalism in contemporary society, are: class stratification, globalization, neoconservative foreign policy, multinational corporations, and “neo-corporatism”.[4] – UNQUOTE.
In a way its not impossible that the only ‘dispute’ concerns the labelling of the outcomes of this old divide & conquer phenomenon. In the most literal terms the persons on power are those that had the strength to conquer land & retain it. If you cannot take land you are weak. If you take land but cannot hold it you are weak. If you took land 1000 years ago * still have it you are – A Gnostic – avoiding to this Metaphor. That would make richard dawkins a gnostic who believes in a supreme being so long as i’m right that no ‘gnostic’ EVER got the bragging rights without land & power. I can reasonably state i’m modestly & tentatively ‘right’ not on the final definition / just this outline of power / resultant consensus power & ‘autogentrification’ (cod linguistics & metaphors being ok) – concerning what happens in 2024 if ones blood line battled & took large tracts of land in England when the romans left.
”we must torture and enslave them to do it (which we sadistically love doing). So down on all fours ”
The position James Lindsay was in with new atheism is relevant here?
”a Chomsky lite”
Now now you are too generous to Dawkinspussy
”the psychopathic power goal of every Atheist, Totalitarian, neoMarxist-Socialist and Woke/WEFian ”
The ‘W.E.F. and this struggle to apply a meaning to the psyche of the misanthropist is closely related & somewhere alone recent lines the americas said to themselves ‘we’ll never catch up with european based A.I.’ < IMHO. Therefore some kind of an unholy union took place thats different from any other 'special relationship – probably because euro bound algorithmic science is at least 10 years ahead. Once this did happen then the confidence to go openly TOTAL went thru the roof!
'' eat those damn bugs!”
The neo feudalists / gnostics have all kinds of talent. Best human being in the universe, A. C. Graylings metaphysical method of remote viewing the universe Covid mossy bite dropped from non jet plane technology – Dawkinsianpussy fly paper like human attractor tech …
''New Atheists you often refer to ''
Yes given they are not just the common human interest group they pretend to be. Much more a very highly funded quango thats hiding behind anti religion, and has charismatic leadership doing this really well. BUT ? – is a Ivy League – Claudine – and ( you say Gnostic /) level misanthropy level organisation operating at the furnace that James lindsay is applying antithesis to. \So )F)up ofc given James is either current or former new atheism
'pussy'. While ? – it seems ? – Petes Bog – On – Hessian is a currently 'Whore' to Dawkinsian whorism as if you won't get funded unless adhering to every totalitarian based idea he has jn his tint dawkins mind, Which is small given hes only spouting from the central algorithm. Perhaps ? – Richard is only just beginning to realIsed how much this is hurting him / in relation to his own MORTALITY / his very late arrival to inner ?
CONSCIENCE
And Late in terms of a prat like Richard Dawkins is an understatemenmt given that 'Humanism' is a pathetic attempt for land owner humans to privatise vans monetise Utopia or Heaven,
CUNTS.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html
We really need to bring back powered wigs. After the Revolution of the Proles, Elite Swine condemned to death will be forced to wear 18th century white bouffant toupees in the tumbrels on their way to the gallows because a bewigged head looks much more aesthetically pleasant lying decapitated in a blood-soaked basket at the foot of the guillotine, n’est pas?
Ha! What a Freudian slip I made — I typed “powered” wigs for powdered wigs! My subconscious (inner tragi-comedian) used a typing error to created a better coinage. Powered Wigs for Globalist Pigs!
” I typed “powered” wigs”
And i was ok for a while but started having the senior moment every minute thing again! The problem is i have a habit of continuing to type posts when i’m falling asleep.Its god to bring up Freud though since i believe ‘they’ when considering what ‘personality traits’ their infernal algorithm should take on, i feel its certainly of a freudian psychoanalyst. In that sense / perhaps being so / because the funny farm at the top has social engineers that understand freud & Jung et al better than they do anything else. ‘Freud ‘ – (you know the phenomenon of him going forward since day he died ‘ since Lacan ) imho ? – theres been one long defaming / making freud seem ridiculous campaign since Lacan. Lies in order to distract / detract from the way their psychological system IS totally FREUD. Perhaps they yearn for someone to come up with something as good so it ca be entirely private. It might be very frustrating for them that us bay city prolers can ‘know’ something of the inclination sanctum sanctorum i.e how its decided this data mining A.i. of theirs should ‘think’.
like the autofellatio
Well the gaff ( Earth) is virtually a brothel. Maybe Klaws not only knows that, but also the potentials of ‘Critical Invisibility’. The next big thing, maturbating in public is only offensive if we decide to ‘see it’ in terms of psychophysical factors that should be illegal – such as ‘Looking’. Once thats sorted out, so are permits that allow autofallatio in public.
“autogentrification”
Great coinage (creating or “coining” a new term). I’m stealing that one:
The autogentrification of the Wokegeoisie is like the autofellatio of the phallic self-fetishist: short term ego gratification but long term soul rot.
“Die, Monster! Die!”
In a way since ‘the monster’ as such is an archetype. And say take JL’d preoccupation with the gnostic offshoot. It doesn’t make sense to worry about such offshoots when theres easier prey. Top professional atheists for instance are seen speaking for nations & merrily pontificating what is politically correct concerning human belief / disbelief – the social engineers they are. No person gets that permission without being in the elite clubs. In turn – elite clubs insist one worships a Supreme Being.
In many ways theres just ONE chill waiting to run up the proletariat spine & its just a question of what. New Atheism is after all a direct distraction from all that is evil as much as anything else – that can easily be transposed to simply ‘ distrationn from what is wrong’. Take any leading new atheist / Dennett / Grayling / Harris. Conveniently they are selling Humanism, their home brew opium for the people i.e goodness will in godless manner. All fine n dandy, but prior to new atheisms 20 odd year vigil religious stability was 1000 times better. Thus they’ve de- stabilised religious matters just to appropriate the general metaphysics religion & they expect the godless label to prevent weak minds from decoding this. With huge success considering the typical new atheism sycophant is about the most brainless & spinless beast on the planet.
JL is right that there are Gnostics & arcane practices but several fundamental strategic essentials were either missing from those statements or fatally incorrect. The most obvious mistake of all ( on gnosticism ) is that elite power should need top be so restricted to 1 evil ideal when all the mean & power says they’ve got it all. These are people that rarely work to obvious disadvantage & chances they’d put eggs on 1 most easily decodable basket are zero. However the gnostic sense of the place is there along with all the other esoteric teachings yes.
Are the eminent counter wokecraftists making use of what they’ve discovered ? – NO they are sucking social engineer knob most of the time. Its about time they woke up and realised that the globalists do not do GOD never have. New Atheism thus is a bone fide anti god movement ? NO – they are pumping out political smoke |& mirrors to a collectively atheists and theists population that is an almighty many. One could ‘sort of’ argue its ‘everyone’ semi well. From that frame of reference no wonder ‘new atheism’ are an attractive social engineering lab. But really most people are a neutral sick of it all ( religion and atheism) majority. 80% of people do it THEIR WAY and are disgusted with persons like richard dawkins et al for going on and on and on. This 80% agnostic population wish new atheism would get out of their faces as they barely hear a peep from religious people by their day. That majority is new atheisms best kept secret. In fact something is really odd inasmuch that new atheism is a monetised entity targeting a minority. No monetised enterprise does that unless there are political reasons which mean they have to. In addition i’d suggest richard dawkins was in fact allowing a crass childish mask slip when he tried to defeat agnosticism in same manner as he were the theist. His weak philosophical mind had not grasped the way he was showing angst & shaking his fist @ a human predicament irony that he was not intelligent enough to understand.
There is no such thing as an atheist philosophy. ‘New Atheism’ can only mean ‘i’m Atypical in relation to Theism’ since all new atheists are AGNOSTICS. The new atheist live in fear of the correct description since agnosticism is a dull reality that is almost impossible to make popular = agnosticism doesn’t sell. This is completely different with new atheism given its militant combative nature. Unlike agnosticism new atheism is not only open to fantasy, it illustrated a sophisticated commercial enterprise based on it. A.C Grayling openly discussed how he had searched the cosmos using metaphysics & found no god. If next weeks lottery numbers were available would Grayling expect to close his eyes & see those too ? Its astounding after all new atheism has said that they’d cite publicly a process known to Spiritualism that is equal to psychic remote viewing as their empirical process of elimination.
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Among his contributions to the discussion about religion in contemporary society he argues that there are three separable, though naturally connected debates:
(a) a metaphysical debate about what the universe contains; denying that it contains supernatural agencies of any kind makes him an atheist;
(b) a debate about the basis of ethics; taking the world to be a natural realm of natural law requires that humanity thinks for itself about the right and the good, based on our best understanding of human nature and the human condition; this makes him a humanist;
(c) a debate about the place of religious movements and organisations in the public domain; as a secularist Grayling argues that these should see themselves as civil society organisations on a par with trade unions and other NGOs, with every right to exist and to have their say, but no greater right than any other self-constituted, self-selected interest group.
I have no idea how someone who is supposed to be some kind of ‘philosopher royal’ can so lack the knowledge with respect to how ‘metaphysical searches of the universe looking for supernatural beings’ = straightforward psychic / spiritualist KOOK !
How on earth did we get into a mess like this ? Face it he must be a Claudine.
NO ? – Lets look again @ Item A of A.C Graylings bucket list – his No1 Essential Item :
”a metaphysical debate about what the universe contains; denying that it contains supernatural agencies ”
THERE is your Hegelist Enemy in all its glory James.
So why was PG ” just off to see Richard” ?
Dawkins is leader of the gravy train thats buying people in to totalitarianism?
“Die, Monster! Die!” ?
What like THAT James ?
Has anyone else ever noticed that Klawz “Anal” Schwab’s certifiably insane prag-boi, Noah You’all Harakiri, looks and sounds exactly like Bugs Bunny’s cartoon nemesis, Marvin the Martian? Identical pencil neck, peevish nerd voice and scrawny reptilian body. Perhaps both were spawned from the same fibrous husk. Klaw-Klaw and Harakiri are like characters from the 1965 low budget shlockarama horror movie “Die, Monster! Die!”. If only they would.
”certifiably insane prag-boi”
Not being familiar with ANY of these terms you use i had to laugh yet again when i saw what it was. Someone like Klaws can usually be spotted lurking in the background in old facist regime footage. Actual front of house tyrannical leaders (like AH) the inferior officer prag-boi as unlikely as can sound.
But the again it seems like the prag boi universe is like ‘the universe’. nTheres a’what came first the chicken or the egg’ mystery in common UNLESS – one id a Totalitarian who denies superiority beyond.. Its like every time someone ‘ bossed it’ they are inevitably someones or somethings prag boi if there is a GOD – not so whenever argued there isn’t. Moot point ? – well this kind of existential flaw isn’t consider moot when its blames on believers & agnostics.
Lets suffice this with TOTALITARIANS cab be defined by the way they force recognition of ones existential flaws but have non themselves
Totalitarianism is what atheists who’ve got rogue into fascism become. They need this god denial complex to start the war & national socialist tee shirts during it so that believers stand aside quietly until they are shot. Atheism VS Theism has no bone fide ideological opposition, its just a tool of manipulation similar to the design of the palestine partition. War like atheists prag-boi’s always hate Agnosticism because doesn’t provide the right excuses to make wars. Lowercase BD bottom like Richard Dawkins & the minion he’s been inculcating, are sent out by the globalist forums to blame believers or agnostics for that effect even though one set of their prag boi’s ( the new atheists ) are AGNOSTICS themselves.
NO problem under a trading based fascism regime thats has hegelian metaphysics until they decide their new industrial revolution cannot work unless they scorch the earth first,
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The BOTTOM prag boi’s are the nuisance everyone thinks are are TOP & visa versa. A GOD in a interval that doesn’t work too good in world war style metaphysics unless the perpetrators of the holocaust are the believers & the dead are the ATHEISTs.
Well just saying if anyone ever wondered why SOME think its so important we are go down the atheist path rather than remain Agnostic or Believers,
“TOTALITARIANS can be defined by the way they force recognition of one’s existential flaws but have none themselves”
Bullseye. THIS is the entire problem. This is what the Gnostic Metaphor represents: the most base (and common and perpetual) aspect of human nature (Gnostic Holy Trinity = Me, Myself and I). “I am superior because I have the special knowledge [gnosis = Jacobinism, Marxism, Fabianism, Wokeism, WEFism, etc.] and you don’t; therefore, people who are not as enlightened with the gnosis as I are inferior scum and will serve me. So suck my Lord-ass, you deplorable bitter clingers.”
Despite having publicly written against religion (but never against God), I know nothing about these New Atheists you often refer to. I heard of Dawkins years ago and found him a pompous bore (a Chomsky lite). So I never read him or paid any attention. I read that someone named “Sam Harris” was also some New Atheist spokesboy but as soon as Islam was invited by elites to begin invading the West, I saw videos where Harris pooped his coward’s panties and started sucking Muslim ass with not a word of “atheism” directed at allah and his umma hordes. Just as I had presumed, this phoney-baloney New “Atheism” was nothing more than gnostic-leftist PR posturing designed to bash Christianity (out of spite), hate Jews (of course) and destroy the West for globalist socialism. All these Dawkinses and Harrises are nothing more than pop culture BernieBro galoot jerk off moneygrubbing snake oil con men with nothing to say of interest about anything other than their own egomania, media power, elite sucking up, and bank accounts.
Organized Atheism is a public attempt to remove God (conscience) from the pursuit of politics for personal gain (Gnosticism) and total societal power (Totalitarianism).
Individual Agnosticism is a personal attempt to remove politics (including religion) from a lifelong private reflection on the complexities of conscience (God) and the contradictions of human nature (Life).
Agnosticism exists within the Human Mind. Atheism exists within the Body Politic. There is no connection between the two. Atheists persecute Agnostics (who are seen as apostates opposed to Atheism) along with Believers (for openly resisting the Atheists’ “gnosis”).
It was ever thus. If there is a devil (literal or symbolic), his greatest achievement is the anti-human concept of Utopia, the psychopathic power goal of every Atheist, Totalitarian, neoMarxist-Socialist and Woke/WEFian. “We have the superior right to force inferior people to be ‘happy’ as we define it, even if we must torture and enslave them to do it (which we sadistically love doing). So down on all fours, proles, and eat those damn bugs!”