We Are the Fake News Now
"We are the media now!" So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it's incredibly fake.
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The Feeling of Mystification
Host James Lindsay illustrates the conditions of Woke Marxist mystification and talks about how to learn to pierce through it to see reality clearly again.
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Kindergarten and the Asylum: “Sanism” in Early Childhood Education
Woke Marxism has no limiting principles. It is, in fact, openly hostile to any such boundary on its own madness. As a result, it possesses no mechanisms to prevent the implementation of the worst possible ideas, as we often see, including in the education of young children.
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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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As Below, So Above
In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle.
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The Gnostic Parasite
In the second lecture in his “Secret Religions of the West” series, Lindsay explains that these “philosophies,” including Marxism, are actually mystical Esoteric cult religions posing as science, economics, and politics, and that their success in infiltrating our religions, societies, and institutions is down to their intrinsically parasitical nature.
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The Negation of the Real
If you want to impose a totalitarian system, you have a problem on your hands: reality. The real is in your way and will eventually veto your project.
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OnlySubs: Where’d You Go, James Lindsay?
This episode of the James Lindsay OnlySubs podcast (which is my subscribers-only podcast) is a huge mea culpa on that along with a useful explanation of what I've been up to when I'm not producing the other content you're seeing.
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OnlySubs: On the Sovereignty of Logos
I want to dive pretty deeply into the idea of why there's almost no capacity to communicate across the divide between Marxists (Woke, especially, or otherwise) and virtually everyone else, and it comes down to something far deeper than political disagreement.
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Marx’s Unreal Realities
In the Marxist literature, you run into the words "reality," "realities," and "actual" all the time. This is no mistake.
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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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Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Pseudo-realities, being false and unreal, will always generate tragedy and evil on a scale that is at least proportional to the reach of their grip on power—which is their chief interest—whether social, cultural, economic, political, or (particularly) a combination of several or all of these.
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