New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 95
To be successful at pushing back at Woke Marxism, you have to know some Woke Marxism and know it pretty well. It’s not enough to have a tacit sense of what “Woke” or its programs are about. You have to be somewhat knowledgeable. Leftists are extremely good at discrediting their opposition by making them look dumb (or ignorant, or uninformed), evil, or crazy, and they will spring questions on unsuspecting activists to create this image. Preventing them the easy entry against you, your work, and your message that is undermining your intellectual authority on these matters is as simple as one thing: doing your homework. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay talks about this Leftist strategy and the importance of doing your homework to countering them. Join him to up your game!
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James Lindsay would be set up such an endless speculative downward spiral by even suggesting ‘name // define woke’. Except he didn’t = he insisted like a dictator what is meant & those suggestions were flawed enough to enable ( his definition of ) WOKE to spread further not diminish. That isn’t all bad as a deep philosophical definition in workaday situations is no good at all. However – the long standing general opinion of (many) persons using this site seems to have been that confronting a WOKE is pointless. Which it is = WOKES are suffering from a group consciousness level psychosis. thus have low enough I.Q. ( to be suffering from that state). So WOKE cannot control their own minds & are is a form of self induce hypnagogia. < thats a fundamental understanding. Really in psychiatric terms the globalist establishments that put their social engineers on this, knew already that social pressure and threats causes a form of psychosis where peoples nervous systems begin to overload. Those designers also know that @ a threshold, the central nervous system begins to shut down certain parts of the sympathetic nervous systems in attempt to calm the being. Over the long term this tends to manifest the semi dream like state ( whilst awake ) known as an hypnogogic state. It is more known to be linked to actual dreams. However much research done by parapsychology, include controlled experiments, found that a wide cross section of magical thinking types, were in fact using hypnagogic states as their own personal evidence of the supernatural. < Those .. were just the people who wanted to regard the natural world as magic. While WOKES – are having similar states induced by the pressures of the post truth era. That is far more an unstable situation, as the kooks in psychic development self intersts actually KNOW they are kooks.
WOKES do not know they are KOOkS.
I'm not going to try lowering the worth of any definition. One of the reasons is that each is likely to valid, but also never ending so i don't want to be there. It might well be the case that its far more fruitful to accurately define the psychiatric state of WOKE for at least those do had a end. A lot to say that will take a while, but its got a terminal point.
Very conveniently though we find that such approach is heresy to James Lindsay.
Actually just about everything that shoutouts and hurts WOKE is not consider valid by New Athiem including JL. But pointless endless spirals in definition one finds hard to imagine dents the WOKE low I.Q. armour all ARE!! Usually thats the set up perpetrated by the globalist
WOKE is a infinitely capable negation of healthy fair society to the degree that any amount of descriptions will all be true. Thus the blue touch paper to ignite conditions to maximise definitions began. Wrong ? – NO – the difficulty here is that whilst the above statement IS the case, it still requires discussion. But Infinity is the cruelest of things = THIS = X ( Correct ) THIS = X ( Correct ) = This = X ( Correct ) Ad Infinitum. WOKE among its endlessly destructive abilities is one of those thing that hides in plain sight in the same way that anything infinite does. WOKE is SO negative and destructive it takes on the mannerism spoken of via a myth known as Hell really. We'd not see the comparison much since atheist persons ( or agnostics like myself ) tend to be self restricted & at least unhappy to use that term given its regarded as a way to describe a binary used in religion. The worst possible bad // never ending catastrophe // nothing but trouble etc thus appears to be manifest without a source anyone is wiling to talk about. If we could witness (say 4 weeks) of non stop footage showing the things humans have done to over humans, its hard to imagine ever being the same. 'Survival' ( in terms of the central nervous system ) depends greatly on our nervous systems NOT being loaded by destructive truth. Non sadistic persons find it far harder to behave rationally if they've been exposed to Graphic / Illustrated hard truth ( murder / genocide ) even when we are generally aware these things happen.
'WOKE' is something that can constantly threaten the person being WOKE. The WOKE will be convinced they are in a romantic fight against the world. But really WOKE ( the phenomenon of ) is the type of invasion mind desease that is able to cause both pleasure and pain.
In other words once Infinity is refused WOKE = Paranoia – yes plain old paranoia, but theres a catch. We understood Paranoia in the TRUTH ERA. However now that the governments and corporations have evolved their great fascist setting we are in a POST TRUTH ERA.
Nothing can be proved unless the globalist say so & since almost al Govs & Corps are in the same global trading clubs THEY DICTATE WHAT SHALL BE DEEMED TRUE DURING THE POST TRUTH ERA.It used to be done on common sense and unhampered evidence.
WOKE is plain old paranoid state but with a smartphone in the hand of eac WOKE. This means its a form of paranoia not before understood given there never was a 24 7 365 source of manipulation to exploit the resultant group psychosis.
The postmodernist WOKE we are experiencing has no resemblance to any claim to any previous / historical kind. Most 'WOKE' in any case was hippie style 'Awakening' steeped in the desire to understand life beyond life. There is nothing wrong with people feeling like that, as many dreadful lives and it only becomes part of nature & nurture to wish to imagine better ( or something more ). Such persons encroached hardly on the rest.
The origin of this WOKE is New Atheism HQ ( Et Al ) who've been plotting against the people whilst hiding behind various bogus forms of social justice such as anti religion. WOKE is a consensus crime friendly.
WOKE os only Psychosis, but in a package that needs careful explanation. I do not see viable evidence that JL actually wants it described based on what hes been doing.
Errors ?? – funders ? – the big fat new atheists won't let him ?
At this point in the game, the entire thing – Woke, anti-Woke, the exhausting he said-she said left-right cage matches, the soul-smothering degradation of world political quagmires caused by “ruling” humans who would have been drawn and quartered in earlier times by angry mobs, the incomprehensible Wizard of Oz behind-the-curtain powerplayers’ endless quality-of life-crushing Babel-Bedlam brouhahas that their sheeple victims take without protest like prison prags resigned to their nightly gang rape — all of this can be metaphorically represented by the plots of two movies by Werner Herzog that bookend each other in an alpha-omega level of perfect symmetrical cosmic disillusion.
The formal anti-Woke “movement” began for me in 2019 feeling like the plot of Herzog’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”, a 1972 movie where a group of conquistadores lead by a mad visionary leader trudge along the Amazon river in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Five years later in 2024, the anti-Woke “movement” now feels to me like the plot of Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo”, a 1982 movie where a would-be rubber baron is determined to transport a massive steamship by hand over a steep jungle-choked mountain to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.
Both movies began in phantasmagorical optimism and ended in dissociative fugue state paralysis. Symbolic portents to me of both the beginning and the end of the chimerical anti-Woke “movement’s” fool’s gold mirage that is always “just around the bend”. As somebody somewhere once said: When we got there, we realized that there was no “there” there.
Pure class that post is 13. It shows what a good writer you were in those salad days ( and now ).
Thank you. Most sincerely. The salad may be wilting at my age but there’s still enough nutrient in the stalks to sustain the sparks needed to read the signs. The time is nearing for me to leave “anti-Woke” behind for greener higher pastures. Always humbling to begin a new journey on a high note.
What is Woke?
Pragmatic non-theoretical definitions:
Definition A: Woke is a system of Organized Hypocrisies.
Example of Woke Organized Hypocrisy:
Enslavement of African blacks is only “evil” when it is or was done by white European-origin people; while enslavement of African blacks is not evil when it is or was done by “brown” Islamic peoples or fellow black Africans or Chinese/other Asians or North American Indians or any non-white peoples now or throughout history. Enslavement of white European-origin people is also not evil when it is or was done by any or all of these non-white peoples now or throughout history.
Why?
Because Woke is a Theory of Oppression that divides all humans across all human history into Oppressors, who are purported to include all white European-origin people living or dead, and Oppressed, who are purported to include all non-white people living or dead, all of whom are purported to have been and are still being oppressed by all white European-origin people living or dead.
Definition B: Woke is a system of Language Control.
Example of Woke Language Control:
The word (and concept) “slavery” is given two meanings. Slavery of non-whites by whites is evil. Slavery of non-whites by other non-whites or slavery of whites by non-whites is not evil. The meaning of the words “slavery” and “evil” can only be determined by knowing the race and skin colour of the people involved. Truth and meaning are relative concepts determined exclusively by Woke ideology and dogma.
Why?
Because Woke is a system of Moral Categorization, Ranking and Punishment/Reward based entirely upon Race designed to achieve “equity” of human races by forcing reparations by oppressor whites to oppressed non-whites to repay the damage done by white capitalist colonizer racist supremacy throughout all human history thereby bringing about a post-white socialist Utopia of DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (the holy trinity of Woke).
Woke functions as a form of “religion” whose adherents are “Good” thus rewarded with the heaven on earth of DEI, while disbelievers living or dead are “Evil” and must be punished by “Good” Wokes whose moral duty demands persecution of all non-Wokes by any means necessary.
Why?
Because Woke adherents function as foot soldier grunts for manipulative Authoritarian Globalist Ruling Cabals (of many kinds) who traded “right wing fascist” systems/”religions” in the 20th century for “left wing socialist (Woke)” systems/”religions” as their preferred totalitarian method of world population control in the 21st century.
(There will be a Pop Quiz on this after recess.)
ps Queer is a simulacra of non-whiteness and is a Woke strategy adopted by cunning liberal/left white people to ingratiate themselves with Woke Overlords by becoming a fictional “non-white race” via an invented category of “oppression” called Queer (trans, autogynephilia, mentally ill teenagers, heterosexuals pretending to be bisexual and other invented fake sexual identities and magical-thinking narcissistic personas) which transmogrify the desperate-to-be-accepted-as-Woke liberal/left white person’s race and white skin into an “oppressed minority” subset of “Race”, an ersatz POC (person of colour), a politically corrected simulacra of non-whiteness. The Queer category is technically a travesty (word origin of the English term “transvestite”, btw) of Wokeness but is so useful as a tool of population control/mind manipulation by Ruling Elites that it’s centred as a weapon to silence non-Woke heretics and terrify faux-liberal cowardly soma-braindead sheeple-people.
What is WOKE?
WOKE is a version of totalitarianism. Of which there are many versions, not all policial. Totalitarianism is a speciic kind of highly dysfunctional group dynamic, both inside and outside of political venues.
What is WOKE?
WOKE is a version of totalitarianism. Of which there are many versions, not all political. Totalitarianism is a specific kind of highly dysfunctional group dynamic, both inside and outside of political venues.
Example of Woke Race Policing in action: “Decolonizing the White-centricity” of Folk Music:
“Almost [$1.9 million] in [UK] taxpayer funding has been awarded to a research project that aims to ‘decolonise’ folk singing.
Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers ‘will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England’. They then hope to ‘increase accessibility to the folk club scene and take the first step in a process of decolonisation within the folk music canon’.” [from “The Telegraph” quoted on other sites]
Wow. My beloved 1960s/70s Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span folk-rock music collection is worse than Hitler. Good to know. Now I’ll listen to them even more. Fuck Woke!
Wokeness is a religion. No matter how many times I read the definition of Woke, I still don’t know what it means. Just like Bible study you have to read each passage ten times to get the meaning from an expert translator.
”Quote – ”Woke means having a critical consciousness”
If that is so James you are the good woke & the opposition are the bad wokes since YOU are expressing it all via a critical consciousness. Unless you’d care to explain some arcane gnostic reason new atheism caused your interprets its just goodies vs baddies ( from a semantic perspective ) as your interpretation seeks to ban critical thinking from the anti woke & how its to be ‘argued’ ( in that mindless state ) hasn’t been homeworked by you. ‘WOKE’ cannot ‘mean’ the woke having a critical consciousness at the cost of real peoples critical consciousness!! I mean what sort of a =thinker are you James as these are basic gaffs. Do you know your approach has been arousing suspicion about you ?
Quote – ”Woke means having a critical consciousness, critical consciousness means believing that out social environment is contoured by illegitimate power structures” Unquote.
That sentence is incoherent as the WOKE sort of morph into the counter woke halfway through ( by accident ). I think you may mean that that type of critical consciousness THEY use, has them support illegitimacy in order to get what they want. In other words the big bent globalists are running programs to get rat wokes to support the establishment breaking the law. Otherwise ? -The sentence is so messed up, it cannot even convert to either side of the argument properly. Not a problem – bust people using lots of words every day do that sometimes. My worry is your ZERO NUANCE when it comes to your treatment of the phenomenon of critical consciousness. JL doesn’t sense positive and negative – JL have split the binary like a fucking Marxist would & all critical consciousness is evil.
What on earth is YOUR counter arguments intellectual process called James ? something like NCC = non critical capitulation or something absurd. Your rationale toward the only process that can bring change within ordinary people ( critical thinking // consciousness ) is to chase it into the sea.
That a pro globalist behaviour.
So i ask you (b you are a coward and do not answer you loyal posters ) – but i ask you.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS’LESS INTELLECTUAL PROCESS. This stinking anti metacognition // anti brainless style anti woke juju.
Is it ordered it in a small bottle for 500 dollars ?
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I could understand it if your agent has said don’t say X or Y. Or string thing thang out so you don’t peak too soon or give too much. But your frequent gaff always look exactly like technical mistakes to me – not aforementioned.
For sure ive seen guys try to go on and debate Lamonte Hill about Criticle Race Theory , and he always ties them up on
” did you read the book ? ” and they didnt and he smirks victory.
I find it frustrating people cant answer their stupid warped history phrases about America like :
” america was born in slavery ..”
Its not , it was born devided with a huge abolishionist movement , and violence in Kansas and Missouri territories whether they would be free or slave , and huge white male deaths in the Civil War .
Or :
” America is systemicly racist ..”
Its also fought systemicly against racism , with a huge Civil Rights movement , and massive laws on the books , and a misguided welfare system.
Its hard to counter their BS , most are college educated , and work on their neo marxist critical theory post modern chops the way prisonors work out their bodies in prison . You cant keep up .
I am taking your advice like it’s coming from my old math professor. If you can’t solve the problem more than one way, you didn’t really do it. 🙂
James I am filled with gratitude for your remarkable podcasts. They are so helpful and encouraging. I often feel I am the only one in the fight…until I listen to you.
I agree with you, James. Though you are not addressing me. I was in the anti-totalitarian game long before you were. And I fully understood it. You’re doing well, though.
What took you so long? It was a very lonely Resistance Movement out here for decades.
If he hasn’t had his doors kicked in several times & almost endless law enforcement plotting hes not even got going yet.