OnlySubs: Communism and the Metaphor of the Bat
At the risk of running the poor thing into the ground, I'm coming back to the societal metaphor of the baseball bat I've used in two previous episodes.
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James Lindsay
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An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," which is currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.
OnlySubs: Liberalism Won’t Grab the Bat
Liberalism therefore offers the key advantage that we don't have to worry about anyone hitting anyone else with the bat, in the terms of the metaphor, and neither do we have to figure out who has the right to grab and potentially wield the bat.
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OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
One of the more famous quips about Communism comes from the renowned biologist (entomologist, technically) E.O. Wilson. He said that it was a "great idea, wrong species," meaning that it's not suited to human beings and human nature.
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OnlySubs: On the Sovereignty of Logos
I want to dive pretty deeply into the idea of why there's almost no capacity to communicate across the divide between Marxists (Woke, especially, or otherwise) and virtually everyone else, and it comes down to something far deeper than political disagreement.
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OnlySubs: James, What Can I Do?
Invariably at almost every event in almost every city, I get asked, "What can we do?" with all the emphasis either on the "we" or on the "do."
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OnlySubs: Stop Doomscrolling
Stop doomscrolling. Stop. Just stop. It's not good for you. It's not helping. It's not research. It's not even making you more aware of what's going on in the world.
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OnlySubs: If You’re Laughing, They’re Losing
Postmodernity is a funny place. You should laugh. On the other hand, you shouldn't get mad, bro. Big mad is big losing. So this leads us to some pretty simple advice worth a few minutes consideration: if you're laughing, they're losing.
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OnlySubs: This is Fine
We've all seen the meme. "This is fine," with flames all around. The dog sipping its coffee with a dumb smile on its face like its house isn't on fire. Did you know there's a name for the phenomenon captured by that meme?
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OnlySubs: On the Need for Positivity
On this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, we'll talk about the positive branding I found on a Vermont maple syrup bottle and from the no-nonsense farmer who gave it to me: "There's nothing sweeter than Vermont liberty!"
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OnlySubs: Don’t Blame Metal for Rust
It's a very popular trope on the reactionary right that Marxism, Communism, Wokeness, or what-have-you in the world of progressive Leftist excesses is the logical endpoint of liberalism.
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OnlySubs: A Treatise on Kayfabe
In this episode of my contributors-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I give a short treatise on political kayfabe and why it is so vital to understand, if not utilize, in the present postmodern political environment
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OnlySubs: What to Do When You Might Be Cancelled
Cancellation is becoming rather commonplace in our Woke Marxist world, even if it doesn't have the same menace it did a year or two ago.
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OnlySubs: The Relentless Woke Offensive
The Woke are always on offense. They never back down. They never stop attempting incursions. They never stop. You must understand this about them.
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OnlySubs: A Thousand Pages of Theory for All that Exists
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I approach the idea of "a thousand pages of Theory for everything that exists" as a Woke tactic.
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OnlySubs: Wokeness as an Insurgency
There are a lot of ways to characterize Woke Marxism and its bid to claim institutions, but perhaps the best way is to understand it as an insurgency model with the goal of colonizing whatever institution it can get its claws into.
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OnlySubs: Regaining Narrative Control
I have a metric for how well we're doing against the Regime: how long it takes people to see through a narrative blitz and pull discussion back to reality
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OnlySubs: What the Iron Law of Woke Projection Tells Us About Marxists
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore this line of thought and illustrate even further why it is the case that the Woke Marxists do not possess the moral high ground, do not possess the evidence or the argument, and may very well be operating from a position of psychopathology.
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OnlySubs: Wokeness Rejects Limiting Principles
We've discussed before how every Woke slope is slippery. That is, we've discussed how a commitment to social constructivism prevents Woke agendas from ever being able to say "this is far enough."
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