OnlySubs: Understand Simple Things Deeply
In this quick episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I offer you the advice of learning to think about simple things deeply.
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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: The Four Parts of Free Speech
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I touch on Andrew Doyle's book and then dive into a discussion of the four aspects of freedom of speech that are crucial to a robust understanding of the concept (and also how Wokeness rejects all of them).
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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Narrows Empathy
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss this important and troubling aspect of the Woke ideology. I hope you'll join me and see why I find it so concerning.
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OnlySubs: They Want You to Quit. Don’t.
Join me here for a short discussion of this important point and, as has been said, don't let the bastards grind you down. Don't give them the satisfaction.
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The Rise of the Woke Cultural Revolution
What actually triggered the Woke Cultural Revolution in the West?
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OnlySubs: Back to Normal: We Tried the Zoom Experiment
Our "new normal" can involve Zoom, but it cannot be Zoom-dependent.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Quit at 19
We have a saying: "If it takes twenty years to get good, most people quit at nineteen." Join me in a short discussion of this idea and what it has to teach us and how it can improve your life.
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OnlySubs: Dealing With Demoralization
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I talk about demoralization and give some ideas of things you can do to resist its exhausting and depressing effects. Join me in not giving up!
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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories
If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.
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OnlySubs: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions.
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OnlySubs: The Woke Don’t Understand Society
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that (left-leaning) academics are likely to be biased toward believing the institution is the fundamental unit of society, and this is why so many of their ideas are so disconnected from reality and, ultimately, statist in orientation.
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OnlySubs: You Must Interact with Reality
I'm giving advice again, right here on James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast. This time, it's about interacting with reality, which is necessary and humbling and, most importantly, an important vaccine against bad abstract ideas.
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OnlySubs: Why You Should Do Difficult Things
in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer you this advice: do something difficult, and do it to succeed. Challenge yourself, and don't give up. Endure. Join me to hear more about it.
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OnlySubs: How Wokeness Makes Conversations Impossible
Join me in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, to understand more about this psychological reality to conversations, especially with the Woke, and what you might be able to do about it.
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The Values of a Post-Woke World
If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.
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OnlySubs: Critical Theory and Aufheben der Kultur
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to provide a short introduction to the concept of aufheben der Kultur, building on a recent episode of this same podcast that talks about aufheben in greater generality.
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OnlySubs: The Important Concept of Aufheben
Join me in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, for a short introductory discussion on the concept of aufheben and its applications in Critical Theory and beyond, including in Wokeness.
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OnlySubs: The Three Tactics of Wokeness
Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, as I outline these three tactics, where they come from, how they work, and what you might be able to do about them.
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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.
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OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk through the idea of snake oil and illustrate how Wokeness is, in fact, a social snake oil that manufactures a disease (systemic oppression) so that it can sell us a "cure" that only makes us sicker (Critical Theory).
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