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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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: 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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OnlySubs: The Marxist Definition of Transition
The website marxists.org is an absolute treasure trove for people who want to understand Marxism and how Marxists think about the world.
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Free OnlySubs: The Southern Baptist Convention & The Subordination of Scripture
In April of 2019, the famously conservative Southern Baptist Convention adopted an infamous resolution, Resolution 9, bringing into the Convention both Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality "as an analytical tool subordinate to Scripture."
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OnlySubs: Conserving the Means of Progress
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I talk about how genuine progress is made through conserving the principles that enable it.
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OnlySubs: Questioning Digital Dependence
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I use this dream and some stories from my past to raise the question of where we might find the line between technology being something that facilitates our freedom and something that makes us dependent.
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Free OnlySubs: Why Every Day Is January 6 Now
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, which I'm taking out from behind the paywall and making available to everyone, I walk you through the crucial paragraphs of Marcuse's essay in light of this ridiculous and ridiculously dangerous pronouncement.
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