The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 138
George Soros has a theory of change, and his goal is to make and move history. That theory of change is easy to understand if we take the time. It is also explicitly dialectical and alchemical. For Soros, society moves “historically” during times of chaos when people are searching for guideposts for what the future will bring, and it proceeds through change by “fertile fallacies,” which are the seeds of what has elsewhere been called mass-formation psychosis. That is, feedback loops based on consequential errors change history. If you want to change history, then, it’s simple. First, plunge society into chaos (say, by funding lots of things that destabilize communities). In the meantime, build “reflexive” potential so that the people driven into chaos work in ways favorable to your agendas. Then, when chaos ignites, place strategic “guideposts” that lead the desperate people to make exactly the kinds of mistakes that take them where you want them to go. In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes on George Soros and his dialectical alchemy of “reflexivity” through Soros’s own words as printed in The Alchemy of Finance and elsewhere. You won’t want to miss it.
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Any way to get a transcript? I don’t normally listen to podcasts or videos as in a few minutes of reading, I can get the main points. This talk is very useful, but my friends with whom I’ve shared this ask for a written version, for the same reason. I wish the TED.com model where a transcript is auto-generated for a talk could become the norm for online media. Thanks…
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Good Points !!
A. C Grayling = New Atheist
Personal life
Grayling lives in central London.
Positions held
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Fellow of the World Economic Forum (2000–2004) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Grayling is accredited with the United Nations Human Rights Council <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
''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; ''
WEF / United Nations // van see the contents of the Universe and is bigger than GOD.
Hes knows EVERYTHING ( GNOSTIC )
AND thats just 1 of the NEW ATHEISTS.
Leftists devised the notion of “perfect competition” as an unrealistic requirement under which capitalist “producers would act just as a socialist dictator would wish them to act, but without having to be forced to do so.” — From this essay by George Reisman:
https://www.capitalism.net/articles/Platonic%20Competition.html
Thank you for another informative podcast.
Soros is just a front for British financial interest. These British banking interests simply want to destablise the United States to exploit our markets and resources and eliminate any threats to their power.
”Well if Soros wants to preserve our current political and economic system, as he says, he’s doing a piss poor job of it.”
Some believe that it only exists as it is now thanks to the processes that effectively distributed wealth in the middle os last century.
Some peopler ‘sell’ stuff based on this double glazed window, or that one keeping out drafts better. Others on the basis that the economic system as they know it cannot be sustained unless they kill everyone & distribute all their belongings among the elites.
When new generations of elites decide they never got as much as their grandfathers did / combined with economic incompetence. Thus the megla mania can desire solutions by expecting the people to hand it back climate tax / road charging / other environmental scams. These things are a confluence to existing ever increasing desires to control everything, but not quite the same train of thought & desire for one is ecological & the other psychological.
James doesn’t know the difference so just helps create many deviant forks in the roads of logic in his wake. He does this as to James ALL transformative thinking is Marxist even while he is taking part in transformative activity himself.
One knows we shall paraglide in the eye of storms like that. Meanwhile the spin doctors for the totalitarians know the anti lobby has these numerous weaknesses & know how to exploit it even before they’ve scratched their balls & jumped into the 30 below homo erotic ice bath @ 4.am with the pickled herrings.
”George Soros has a theory of change, and his goal is to make and move history. That theory of change is easy to understand if we take the time”
Sorry no since a investor seeking sales pitch, I.E the patter used to attract members of cohort / consortium / funders into war adjacent misanthropic enterprise is not the same as post structuralism in the SLIGHTEST James Lindsay!. Why on earth would you confuse the sort of consciousness based ethnic cleansing we’ve witnessed with the sales pitches of george soros ? Yes its another article & people love your work James. However misanthropy grade european aristocrats do not tend to go around under the same spell of social engineering the prolertariat do. What did this article try to do James ? – understand the pernicious potentials of that aristocrat ? Prove to us that Marx is so lethal that even Soros is being sucked off in its event horizon ?
”It is also explicitly dialectical and alchemical ”
It is ? What as if an expertise in selling people schemes that guarantee profit by assuring a rape & pillage genocide underwrites the scheme has got a commonality with new atheist based pantheist theories?
Is THIS the justification for knowing such alchemy exists ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Grayling
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For Grayling, work on technical problems is only one aspect of philosophy. Another aspect, one which has been at the centre of philosophy’s place in history, has more immediate application to daily life: the questions of ethics, which revolve upon what Grayling calls the great Socratic question, ‘How should one live?’. In pursuit of what he describes as ‘contributing to the conversation society has with itself about possibilities for good lives in good societies’, Grayling writes widely on contemporary issues, including war crimes, the legalisation of drugs, euthanasia, secularism, human rights and other topics in the tradition of Polemics. He has articulated positions on humanist ethics and on the history and nature of concepts of liberty as applied in civic life. In support of his belief that the philosopher should engage in public debate, he brings these philosophical perspectives to issues of the day in his work as a writer and as a commentator on radio and television.[38]
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.
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Totalitarians & their legions alter reality in the way that makes your skin creep WITHOUT facing rational scientific obstacles James – absolutely.
Are u sure you’ve understood who they are & when its done though ?
The saddest thing of all of this is that George Soros was a student of Karl Popper, who would have been horrified at his ideas and goals. The introduction to a later version of The Open Society indicated that Popper and Soros had gone separate ways and that what Soros envisioned as an Open Society was not the same as Popper’s. I hate that he has the name for his foundation because the society he is proposing is in fact the polar opposite of an open society, which is exquisite doublespeak.
Your description of Soros’ ‘operational success’ in creating historical change when society is in chaos is analogous both to state changes in chemistry, or orbital mechanics, in that both require higher energy state. And the conflict and chaos provides that energy.
In a Hohmann Transfer orbit a spacecraft adds energy at periapsis (perihelion) causes an increase in orbital altitude at apoapsis (aphelion). In other words, perturbing the orbit at exactly the right time in one dimension, causes a change in orbit in the perpendicular dimension,
James
Richard Poe an author has written an excellent summary on both George Soros and the history of communism. I think you will find both of these very insightful given your scholarship. The links are below.
https://www.richardpoe.com/2021/06/18/how-the-british-invented-george-soros/
https://www.richardpoe.com/2023/01/08/how-the-british-invented-communism-and-blamed-it-on-the-jews/
Fantastic podcast, James. I think we need to expand the vectors we use for ‘inoculating’ people against these methods and magic tricks. People like Soros finance massive entertainment projects, modern bread and circuses, as part of their project to spread these ideas.
We need to do the same thing.
I’m not the most talented writer, but I’m a self-published author with about three million words produced under my name and another million or so as an invisible ghostwriter. I’d love to write a technothriller or even scifi/fantasy series featuring and describing these kinds of machinations on the part of the story’s main villains. You’ve got a platform that could launch that kind of project, and I sincerely think relevant fiction is going to be one of the most effective counterattack vectors available to us.
I put my Amazon Author page in the ‘website’ field here, so if anyone on your team sees a potential fit, let me know via email or DM on X. I’d like to contribute to this fight.
”potential fit”
Yes if James doesn’t get a grip soon that might be possible.
He needs to rest and learn how to use tools properly ( such as his brain ).
Talk is great. Communists understand death and destruction and we give words. By the time you wake up and realize that McCarthy was right and we should have wiped them out long ago your kids children will be members of the chinese communist party.
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Well if Soros wants to preserve our current political and economic system, as he says, he’s doing a piss poor job of it.