Audio Archives - Page 24 of 28 - New Discourses

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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.

OnlySubs: On Courage and Cowardice

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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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How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.

OnlySubs: The Simple Lie of Systemic Racism

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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."

OnlySubs: Responsibility and the Wisdom of Uber

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OnlySubs: Responsibility and the Wisdom of Uber

I recently had a very interesting conversation in the back of an Uber.

The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.

OnlySubs: Anticipating Post-Woke Depression

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OnlySubs: Anticipating Post-Woke Depression

Complicity in large-scale evil that causes great damage has consequences.

Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay takes this jargon-heavy plan and reads through it, breaking it down so that people outside of the inner circle of UT Austin's diversicracy can make sense of what these plans entail.

Neoreaction and Oversteer

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OnlySubs: Neoreaction and Oversteer

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I discuss why I think this movement, while often insightful about the Woke problem, does not represent an appropriate response to that problem but, instead, an overreaction that very well may flip the car.

Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.

OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble

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OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk you through the idea of how the Woke ideology tries to frame creating equalizing outcomes as though it's about equalizing access.

Stop Buying Digital Anxiety

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OnlySubs: Stop Buying Digital Anxiety

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer some simple advice: when you feel the anxiety rising, unplug and go get real.

Communism Doesn't Know How

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Communism Doesn’t Know How

On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay gives an example of how a contemporary police abolitionist activist has made almost exactly this same argument perfectly explicitly and walks you through how you can spot it for what it is.

Understand Simple Things Deeply

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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.

OnlySubs: The Four Parts of Free Speech

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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).

The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

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The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory

What is the end-game of the Woke ideology? It's a hard question to answer, mostly because it's hard to tell where it will stop, but a proximate answer to that question is easy and needs to be understood.

How Wokeness Narrows Empathy

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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.

OnlySubs: They Want You to Quit. Don't.

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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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A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

Join James in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, wherein he discusses why these are the right values as well as why we should hold the narrow way against other competitors in the space that will not produce results as good, including both the Very Smart "respectability" (blue pill) approach and the relatively hopeless "post-liberal" or "neoreactionary" approach (black pill, mostly).

The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

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The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism

The threat of Medical Lysenkoism is rapidly growing around us already, and we have to take it seriously and demand it be put to a halt.

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