New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 141
“Woke” often proceeds by what amounts to social magic spells, and some of the most potent kinds of these spells are certain framings of inevitability or universality. The general gist of the construction would be “everything is already like this, so we should do it consciously (and according to Woke framing).” An alternative is “everything will eventually work this way, no matter how it started, so we should lean into it consciously (and according to Woke framing).” Surely, you’ve encountered this. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into this construction and how it sets up other Woke “magic spells” (like affordance traps) to get you to do their bidding. You won’t want to miss this important expose of Woke manipulation.
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This talk reinforces the fact that we are confronted with a coalition of nihilistic intellectuals and terminally depressed persons who are convinced of the inevitability of failure and want to bring all the rest of us down with them. The intellectuals look at the patterns of history and are convinced in that way (they are rather convincing). The rest are in a state of rather high suggestibility. The movement is driven by criminals (psychopaths) who are totally convinced that they have no other choice.
It is hardly even worth trying to change the minds of any of these people. We simply must be willing to out-create them and keep our planet on a path of freedom, or at least the search for freedom. Those of us who are wiser and less cynical know that freedom, in the end, is the best option. That is to say, it produces the most happiness, the most fun, and even certain material benefits.
This movement, therefore, consists mainly not of an effort to stop or overcome and “enemy” (their formulation) but rather efforts to strengthen ourselves, stay organized, avoid their toxicity and create games that work for us. I think this is the one point that is not yet clear to James. But perhaps he is moving in this direction.