“Lived Experience,” Explained
We've all heard it and done everything we can to avoid rolling our eyes now. "It's my lived experience!" as though that's evidence or, actually, even better than evidence.
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OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
One of the more famous quips about Communism comes from the renowned biologist (entomologist, technically) E.O. Wilson. He said that it was a "great idea, wrong species," meaning that it's not suited to human beings and human nature.
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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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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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