The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
Scientific Gnosticism is perhaps the most calamitous ideological phylum human beings have so far managed to contrive.
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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.
On the Absence of Systemic Racism
According to Critical Race Theory, “racism is ordinary, not aberrational—‘normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” Its advocates call this belief “systemic racism.”
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OnlySubs: Intersectionality’s Faceless Aesthetic
Something I am noticing more and more lately is the use of a faceless aesthetic in intersectional art, and it's starting to creep me out.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Drink the Woke Kool-Aid
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take listeners through a radio message sent from Angela Davis to Jim Jones at his compound in Guyana in 1977, a year before the gruesome end.
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OnlySubs: The Worst Woke Belief
There are a lot of bad ideas in Critical Social Justice and the related Critical Theories. Lots of them. Some of these ideas are much more dangerous than others, and in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I dive into what might be the worst of them: the belief in the perfectability of Man.
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OnlySubs: Aufheben der Martin Luther King
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I spend a few minutes talking about the aufheben of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by the voracious culture-eaters on the Dialectical Left.
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OnlySubs: Critical Pedagogy Doesn’t Understand Education
Critical Pedagogy is the name for the Critical Theory of education, meaning both applying Critical Theory to education and applying it in education, as in teaching students to adopt Critical Theory methodologies and ways of thinking.
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OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology
Drawing from various examples in the neo-Marxist and Critical Pedagogy literature, in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Wokeness is applied psychopathology.
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OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic
Wound collecting is a profoundly manipulative behavior strongly connected to malignant ideologies and psychopathologies, and it needs to be understood as such, especially in our present moment when it has so much traction and manipulates so much social currency.
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Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go through the first paragraph of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory: An Introduction line by line.
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OnlySubs: The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the reasons why I think critical, deconstructive, and dialectical slopes are always slippery slopes.
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OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take you through the top-down, bottom-up, inside-outside strategy of Woke institutional takeover and give a status report on where I think we are with challenging each of these facets.
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OnlySubs: Be a Rebel: Enjoy Life
Join me to hear how the Woke and their intellectual predecessors literally have the goal of making people miserable with what is actually a pretty amazing life and the value, if we want to break away from Wokeness, of rebelling against the whole program by the simple, plain act of enjoying what we have in life as it is.
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OnlySubs: Burning Through Trust
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explore this idea and try to encourage everyone to think through just how easily virtually all of your goodwill can be lost if you treat it irresponsibly.
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OnlySubs: What We Can Learn from Basecamp
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the story around how Basecamp changed one simple policy and effectively ridded itself of the Woke menace.
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OnlySubs: The Trap of Negative Rapport
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore the ideas of positive and negative rapport and discuss the way that Wokeness and Critical Theory seek to undermine the crucial norm that limits access to sharing negative rapport with others.
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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it.
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OnlySubs: Entitlement and the Performative Elite
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take aim at some of the cultural phenomena that arise within the bourgeoisie.
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OnlySubs: On Courage and Cowardice
A simple maxim that I hear again and again is "courage begets courage." It's true. Every single time someone stands up to some injustice, it makes it that much easier for another person, or several, to do the same.
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OnlySubs: The Simple Lie of Systemic Racism
I've talked about what Critical Race Theory is a bunch of times and written about it all over the place, but maybe the simplest expression is that Critical Race Theory is the study of some phenomenon it names "systemic racism."
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