What is Agitprop?
Host James Lindsay discusses the concept of agitprop to show you how to spot influence campaigns you might encounter online or in the news.
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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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Surviving a Modern Struggle Session
One of the most famous and most evil techniques of Maoist Marxism is the "struggle session" (dòuzhēng, 鬥爭; or pīpàn dòuzhēng, 批判鬥爭, “critical struggle”; or sometimes just pīdòu, 批鬥; also called “denunciation” sessions).
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OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships
In the world of social media, we've had a huge expansion of our parasocial space without much expansion of our truly social space.
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OnlySubs: The Sinking of the USS Twitter
If we think about what's taking place in the world today as a new form of warfare, and we think about the various instruments of that warfare in analogy to, say, naval vessels, we might come to think of a social media platform like Twitter as a kind of powerful battleship for the Enemy forces of today, the USS Twitter.
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James Lindsay on His Lifetime Twitter Ban
Twitter finally dropped the hammer and banned James Lindsay. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James spends half an hour telling the story behind the ban and walking through his initial thoughts and reactions to it.
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OnlySubs: Stop Doomscrolling
Stop doomscrolling. Stop. Just stop. It's not good for you. It's not helping. It's not research. It's not even making you more aware of what's going on in the world.
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OnlySubs: If You’re Laughing, They’re Losing
Postmodernity is a funny place. You should laugh. On the other hand, you shouldn't get mad, bro. Big mad is big losing. So this leads us to some pretty simple advice worth a few minutes consideration: if you're laughing, they're losing.
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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.
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OnlySubs: Four Roads to Deal with the Woke
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscriber-only podcast, I try to explain that there are exactly four options available to people in dealing with the Woke.
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OnlySubs: A Spanish Vaccine for Woke Bullying
I was recently asked why you don't see the Woke going after the Spanish colonizers of history, who arguably had the most brutal colonial project of all European colonialism.
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OnlySubs: Psychopathy and Social Media
Since the problem of totalitarianism hinges significantly on mismanaging psychopathy (and its tendency to create self-suited pseudo-realities), totalitarian ideologies can be expected to bloom when a huge new opportunity like social media arrives on the scene.
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The Road to Hell is Paved with Eggshells
The “walking on eggshells” feeling causes you to ‘go along to get along.’
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