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.
Subscribe to the New Discourses Podcast on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, or by RSS.
Additional episodes of the New Discourses Podcast are available here.
11 comments
https://knowthyself.forumotion.net/t3094p390-zionism#112954
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…
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.
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.
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.
“ The FREE SPEACH PLATFORM” GETTR Just Banned My Account After This Post
Well if Soros wants to preserve our current political and economic system, as he says, he’s doing a piss poor job of it.