The Poison of Negative Idealism
Negative idealism explains why "critical" movements like Communism, Fascism, and Woke of all types trend toward violence.
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ND Bullets
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How the Friend-Enemy Distinction Poisons Politics
Carl Schmitt captured the essence of totalitarian politics in his book The Concept of the Political (1932). It is the distinction between friend and enemy. The poison of this kind of thinking is in the ugly fact that the declared enemy must be treated as the declared enemy once a political faction has declared one, and anyone who doesn't go along with that declaration declares himself one of the enemy.
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True and False or Us Versus Them?
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explores this idea of "us versus them" out loud and explains its relevance to politics, society, and education.
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Why Communists Do the Red-Green Alliance
As normal people who value ideological and logical consistency, we tend to find movements like the Red-Green Alliance (Communists and Islamists) and "Queers for Palestine" confusing.
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Woke Interpretation and “Lived Experience”
James Lindsay revisits the topic of "lived experience" and explains how it manifests outside of Leftist enclaves and without the cutesy name.
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All Roads Lead to Woke
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into this construction and how it sets up other Woke "magic spells" (like affordance traps) to get you to do their bidding.
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Ideological Psychopathology
It goes without saying at this point that "Woke" activists appear to exhibit a suite of psychopathological traits and behaviors, but why?
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What Is Gender Trafficking?
Children are being separated from their parents by the state as a result of indoctrination in gender ideology.
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What Werewolves Can Teach Us About Political Warfare
A small number of bad actors who have an informational advantage over a much larger population have a gigantic strategic advantage.
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The Impending Disaster of Institutional Knowledge Bombs
Virtually every institution in the world runs not only on official knowledge but also on something called "institutional knowledge."
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Why Fascist Economies Can’t Work
James Lindsay dives into Fascist economic models on a variety of levels, using economic theory and historical examples to make his point.
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Big Government Can’t Produce Abundance
Expanding the influence of government over the economy will not produce an economy more capable of solving problems real people have.
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The Essence of Critical Theory
Critical theory is a tool for delegitimizing a real thing for not being some kind of sociopolitical ideal thing that cannot even exist.
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The Iterated Motte and Bailey Strategy
Host James Lindsay explains how the "motte and bailey" strategy can be iterated to give legitimacy to truly radical ideas.
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The Difference Between Left and Right
The thing is, while radicalism and political violence are not (at present) "both sides" problems, temptation is a both-sides problem.
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The Three Pillars of Civilization
What is civilization? What is it based on? In the big picture, there are three fundamental pillars to civilization: truth, justice, and love.
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We Must Win By the Book
We have to do everything by the book. It's not just that we need to on a matter of principle, though. We also must as a matter of strategy.
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Real Communism Can Never Be Tried
"Real Communism has never been tried!" "Real Communism" can never be tried, so this old canard isn't saying anything interesting at all.
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What Freedom of Speech Is and Isn’t
Host James Lindsay addresses the issue of freedom of speech in principle in this new episode of New Discourses Bullets.
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Is Woke Real, or Is It a Psyop?
One of the more difficult experiences we all face is how hard it is to tell whether something on the internet is "real" or a "psyop."
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