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Dispositions on Being
In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being.
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The Gnostic Temptation
Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited.
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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
James Lindsay takes you through an academic paper by Emily Drabinski titled "Queering the Catalog" from 2013, showing you exactly how Drabinski intends to use her American Library Association to make libraries sites of Queer Marxist grooming.
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Nullification
Virtually all Woke activism has the goal of nullifying its target (German: aufheben). What that means is putting the target in a position where he has to go along with Woke standards or be unable to productively resist against them.
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Exposing the Sustainable Development Goals
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay introduces the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations Agenda 2030 and shows how every one of them grants the pretext to seize control over the world and all human life and activity in it. Join him to know your enemy.
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The Real Threat of ESG
Thankfully, the world is rapidly waking up to the threat of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scoring for corporations and beyond.
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An Open Letter to Woke Youth
If you are Woke, you are in danger, not from the people you think you need to fight every waking moment of your day but from the people you support. History teaches this.
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Beating a Struggle Session
In Mao Zedong's CCP-run China, citizens were bullied and brainwashed into accepting "socialist discipline" by the Communist authorities by means of a devastating tool called the "struggle session."
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How to Prevent Revolutions
One of the best things about reading Marxist literature is that they almost always tell you their weaknesses if you pay attention. A huge focus in the literature of Western Marxism has been on the fact that Western societies don't have Marxist revolutions because they are stable societies.
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Groomer Schools 5: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, the fifth in the "Groomer Schools" mini-series, host James Lindsay pulls back the veil on the pillars of Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
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On Life, Liberty, and Property
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously used a curious phrase to describe man's fundamentally inalienable rights: "among these, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." What many do not know is that Jefferson was riffing off and augmenting a similar formulation from John Locke, who argued that we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Contradict Grandma!
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I tell you the story, expose this tactic, and explain why a heuristic like "don't contradict grandma" (and hurt her feelings) is fundamentally different thing than Woke demands for weaponized empathy.
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This is How We Fight and Defeat the Woke
In this off-beat episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay describes a broad, comprehensive strategy for fighting Woke Marxism by analyzing it from the perspective of traditional five-element theory.
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All Men Are Created Equal
Progressives, Communists, and the Woke have used this phrasing to drive a wedge in American society for over a century, provoking precisely the type of reaction they need to carry out their plans. Are all men really created equal?
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OnlySubs: The Stage-Two Cancer Problem
There's a common form of corruption in business and politics that I have been calling "the stage-two cancer problem" for a few years now.
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Why Bud Light and Target Pushed the Woke Agenda
ESG scoring is a financial racket, and we're starting to learn how it works.
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Name the Dynamic
A powerful technique for breaking free of Woke magic spells and manipulation is simply to take a step back and name the dynamic.
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OnlySubs: Woke Marxism and Pygmalion’s Wish
I'm always looking for ways to communicate why Marxism will surely fail, to the destruction of so much and deaths of so many. One way I can try to analogize this is by drawing off some of the actual inspiration for their line of magical thinking: the myth of Pygmalion.
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Post-Liberalism, Left and Right
One of Mao Zedong's most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled "Combat Liberalism." Contrary to what many conservatives would have us believe, Communism is not the completion of liberalism but one of its mortal enemies, the fruit of a Leftwing, Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment.
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