I’m from England and I’m about to go to university to do a masters in psychotherapy. I’m quite talented in the field and I’m also highly keyed into the gnostic cult religion of wokism. When I get to university I fully expect to be required to adopt “the people’s perspective” and I’ll refuse outright. If I’m pushed then I know I can rely on myself to articulate very strongly exactly what my problems are and why I’m refusing to join the cult. I hope I can bring people to a true understanding and I’ll reach people but it’s quite a long shot.
Exposing yourself early on as a rebel is effectively shooting yourself in the foot. They are the ones in power in that arena, and they will use that power to get you out somehow. What you could do is play along with their nonsense, all the while collecting as much hard evidence of what's really going on in there as you can. These people are fighting dirty - we need to fight dirty too..
There is a guy in my town who writes messages in chalk, our local antifa group hates him… I started doing the same thing. People yell at me and call me christen as if it is a slur… this is in Washington… I do this every other day
Yep and notice that, we both use our full birth name. Come on doubters, it might seem a small step but put your full name to your thoughts in the public space. Within reason ofourse depending on how edgey your verbage is.
@@michaelnuttall5896 yeah that's dangerous, I mean I did it because I have a common name but I have a buddy who has a very unique name and he'll be put on notice instantly lol. He already had some weird leftists dox him so he left Twitter and deleted all socials. He claimed some people were watching him at work but he wasn't sure if they were "the mob". I say use caution but don't completely give in to them
@@jackalcoyote8777 By objecting calmly, respectfully and backed by a MUCH deeper understanding of these issues than 99% of those spouting them (thanks to James L!). The key is to ask questions that they can't answer rather than trying to convince them they are wrong. The good faith people see what is happening and the bad faith actors reveal themselves.
Another important bullet point. I see a lot of strivers and normies in my personal life. Friends or family members who just want to live their lives in peace, in all honesty, so they either don't listen or just go along with the grain. I feel like I'm in Invasion of the Body Snatchers but I'm the only one with the special glasses that sees the truth.
As the cult pushes for more ground more and more people will start questioning what is happening, that is the time to wake people up and lead them to safety. I had the same experience but have noticed more and more people open to the idea that Woke are dangerous
@@matweb8195 I am severely tempted to point and shriek like body-snatcher Sutherland when I appear to be surrounded on all sides by malicious dwarves in red anoraks.
No worries James, I can't help myself from speaking up every day and every time I her someone say something promoting this cult. It's now like a reflex, like when the doctor bumps your knee with the little hammer and you kick. This is a good talk , thanks! 💕💕
Hahahaha same. I have almost made an occupation of shaming half of the government goons of Lincoln Nebraska and those in the Nebraska government and UNL.
You da man. Thanks. These videos give me the courage to, at the very least, use my limited knowledge to try and convince my loved ones that there is a fight for our freedom going on. I'll learn more, so that I can help you, and others like you, better. Me and some friends own a web design business. For you James our services are free and at your disposal as much as we can help. God speed my friend
The best way to help is to know the truth about this revolution to destroy western society. When we are able to speak the truth accurately, we can openly rebel against this revolution by teaching normies about the lies spoken through the "motte and bailey fallacy". We need to expose the fragility of this revolution as it is very likely that the majority would reject the revolution if only they had enough understanding.
I think it’s the first time I’ve heard actual appropriate descriptions of the people involved in the “world show”. I’m certainly able to identify those participants who are very inline with what you described, and like you I can only ask for more vocal support from the silent majority of doubters, as taking all the heat has been tough but a lifelong struggle as well. I guess I had trained for being the “voice” for reason and accountability so long, at this point (last 5-6 years)I don’t even consider courage as a necessary attribute, it’s just I can’t be any other way. Saying what is true and right and goes against what most people are told to believe, has been isolating and aggravating and damaging, but worth every moment of it. The good part ; I did realize that most people who surrounded me were not yet true to themselves. Cleaned out my life effectively. Thank you for your valuable insights. ❤
Great advice. One of my rebel fantasies is, if I had FU money, I would like to go back to college and major in sociology and become an absolute wind up merchant uber boomer in every class. I'd vlog the whole thing too.
If you had FU money I think it would be better used to help like-minded people who share your values instead of helping to fund the very institutions that are causing all this mess
I dream about being told I have to wear a pronoun badge in a humanities class. Then I get up and remove everyone's pronoun badges and shred them and throw the torn up paper in the face of the teacher and anyone who objects. I tell them that for 68 years no-one had any difficulty working out I was a woman when they wanted to discriminate against me, so why hide behind a piece of paper now.
Thank you for your hard work, James. It means a lot to someone who lives in a blue district and has family who have been completely ideologically captured.
Thank you so much for this video AND all your others. Your message and education is important, and it is definitely helping. PLEASE continue your work. You're providing a vocabulary and intellectual roadmap for navigating some of the most obscure unspoken challenges we are all facing in the present societal landscape both publicly, professionally, and privately. Thanks again. 🙏✊
This message must be spread to every doubter and I couldn't agree with you more when you say that we don't like hearing them secretly give us their support as it's not the least bit useful.
Thank you for your calm and considered videos. Very helpful. And thanks for not yelling at or insulting your followers in the comments or in your videos. The first anti-woke person I listened to on TH-cam started out great, but then devolved into turning against her own followers and seeming very contemptuous of them so I unsubscribed from her. I like to think of myself as a shy rebel, having moved up from a doubter.
A pretty good analysis. I recognize the types. Something to examine with every issue in the news. I always functioned as an outsider and an observer, often backing the play of a rebel. I would speak up when others wouldn't, but I usually ended up kicked out. It wasn't very effective, and the leaders always labelled me as a loose cannon. They didn't want me around at all. I sometimes simply destroyed ring leaders and left everyone confused. Leadership is all too complicated for me.
God sent me to a place where I could not have a good life, because it is not good for the man to be alone. No community welcomed me, so i shook their dust off my feet. They were all going down to death with their leaders.
I always function as the cool guy with laser cannon arms that shows up, kills all the bad guys then double backflip and kick the main boss in the eye and light a cigarette and say "EYE dont care anyways" then leave. yeah, im basically total badass cool guy. ring leaders better not mess with me
I’ve been wanting you to do a video where you start with the indoctrinated “cultists“ and work your way backward to the philosophy behind it. This video is pretty close to what I wanted. Awesome job. Thanks.
James - great info. Suggestion - use a story and examples from to help explain each term. For example, the Great Leap Forward, all the players, their roles & actions
The reason we have the second is for exactly these times. It's great to try a counter propaganda campaign. It's better to start whacking those that need whacking. It has its own logic.
I recently confronted my 65 year old leftist mom on politics and it was a disaster. She lives alone, with her cat, reads the Washington Post religiously and watches PBS Newshour. So she has been sufficiently brainwash by these people so I try to talk some sense to her and she just cuss me out. I stood my ground and didn't back down despite her best attempts to shame me. But she took an unusually long shower and I think she was crying. Now I feel awful and I haven't been able to sleep for a few days because of guilt. I don't know if I made the best decision because she was so much happier without the confrontation, but the state of our country was eating me away and it was due to some of the politics she subscibes to.
Sorry that the convo went downhill. Keep in mind you and tens of millions of your generation are inheriting the mess that her favored policies have & will continue to burden & punish us all.
Idk really why the algo suggested me on of your Vids, but I surely appreciate your thoughtfull comment on the topics and Issues you cover . From what I ahev heard so far, your analyses are spot on . Thanks for what you are doing . +1 sub .
I try constantly to speak up about this stuff, but people just look at me like I'm insane and then stop talking to me- or they mock me and deride me. I'm not sure what I can do differently, I never took any debate classes and I am not very persuasive.
Sounds like practice to me. You're not really selling something so you have to be very empathetic, that in mind. Don't just rattle off crushing realities to them, discern what may be a luke warm take, cattered specifically for them and guage the reaction. Most people won't even entertain a non scripted, tv person take without having a panic attack. Imagining you blurting out, Marx was a mystic who took queues from an ancient European death cult.. and so was Hitler so you see he wasnt a bad guy, ok maybe just a little bit but for the ri... etc lol
Focus not on convincing them but simply saying what is true. And don't ever let yourself think that you are better then them, I have made that mistake myself. Debate skills are useful for an audience, but they won't help you talk to a friend. Also be very precise in what you say, save links to sources and speak about those things. Nothing wrong with saying I don't know. And simply questions can make it clear that the other person doesn't know either. What do you mean by that? How do you know what your saying is true? What if you are wrong about that? Why does what your saying matter? Almost no one can answer these 4 questions, and they really show what someone's true motivations are. If you don't know what to say, just ask questions.
Being a rebel is on average suboptimal strategy for life fitness. You actually pay a high alternative costs doing that. There are a few rebels for that reason. I'd try talking to people more about achieving high life fitness and throwing political takes only off-hand. That will appeal more to the normies and the strivers and maybe will help you too.
It might be true that being the second one to speak out requires more courage than the first. What is for certain is that being the second is far more EFFECTIVE than being the first. For instance, college professors are used to dealing with a compliant audience to soak up their claptrap with only the occasional one speaking out against him. When a second rebel joins in it tends to unnerve the professor. Because one is just that, one. But two can mean 3 or 5 or the whole class. More importantly it greatly increases the courage of the other doubters in the room and makes the normies more easily indo doubters. So look for every opportunity to be the second to speak out and take that opportunity.
Usually points in your videos are very clear. In this one, I had trouble understanding what you meant by reactionary ringleaders. Please explain that with greater clarity.
16:40 There was no second who stood up. I saw it would fall like dominos, a house of cards, if one, maybe two, did. You're speaking from my heart here, or whatever you say in english. All of the things said, I have at least touched upon on several notes flying around here over the years. Of course the perpetrators seek to gaslight about the very process they employ as well as what could defeat them, sowing further doubt, especially through their conscious and unconscious agents. I had figured it out surprisingly early, but not found enough confidence in it, trapped in that endless gaslighting prison of self-defeating doubt and more. I want to say, think, I just failed to inspire people, was not thorough enough, not pushy enough, because that is so contrary to my nature - doing this feels like walking on your hands, and it seems to require it. People too far away to affect things directly, who would have kicked in some doors, metaphorically speaking, had they been closer, said I was the one made an example and from just how many people told me that they knew it was bad and it was wrong what was being done... That was the majority. But nobody dared to even speak with each other, so everyone thought that everyone was on board with the bad stuff, although nobody except the parasitic infiltrating ringleaders were, although nobody was on board. It was just a demon, an imagination that everyone was alone, that everyone was the only one against the wrongness. Divide and conquer, I guess. In this case, divide not by class or such, but by fear itself. I should have just gotten them all, or at least a seed group of 3-5 in a room, that had all already individually told me their real stance beneath their cowardly silence, so they could see the others, and that they're almost half a football team already, and thus making up a significant portion of the group (especially when it's the more active core members of the group). Why didn't I? I did think of it. Aside from other twisted nonsense probably rooted in childhood by not wanting to bother people in the slightest (that makes you a very easy target btw), doing this very thing seemed to me conspiratorial and manipulative, and isn't that what the bad guys do? I don't wanna be like the bad guys, so much so that I mistook something that isn't that, but is similar, for that. Of course the bad guys would accuse you of conspiracy if you did that, because that's what they're doing. However, this would not have been manipulate, because it would have been to dispel the manipulation, to dispel the illusion, to negate the magic spell. Sharing truth negates the magic. Opening people's eyes to what's really going on and showing them that they're NOT alone is what gives them strength - the "evil wizards", the narcissists and psychopaths, put their spells on people under the pretense of doing that. The bad guys always use the corrupt form of something, of the thing they name as good. Never think that the pure form of something, the real form of something makes you like them, because it seems similar to their corrupted form. Sorry for the rant, maybe cryptic words... this is... hits a lot of personal wound spots.
I'm a defector and I'm glad, but the frustrating thing is not being able to get more people to also defect. And I think the main reason is that they don't want to go against the grain or rock the boat. Which I can understand. People don't like to lose friends or cause conflict in their lives. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, even though it's exhausting sometimes.
In my jurisdiction, there’s a small contingent of lawyers trying to fight back against some scary/authoritarian moves on part of the local Law Society/Bar Association. The problem is that they’re too small in number and got voted out when the ringleaders/strivers mobilized the normal everyday lawyers. It’s a rough spot to be in.
A very powerful message chock full of extremely useful and important information. Thank you, James. Just realized this is Episode 51. How wonderfully ironic since most Normies would probably find this information quite alien. LOL 👽
Precisely for the reasons you've mentioned here is why I've had issues with democracy for years, maybe decades at this point. Normies should not be allowed to vote as far as I'm concerned. My estimation is that normies make the vast majority of the population and they only believe whatever it is that they perceive will make their lives easier or less difficult when it comes to things related to general society. Normies are not bad people necessarily, they just don't care enough about anything other than their limited interests to have an informed opinion on it and therefore, shouldn't be allowed to "voice" their opinion through voting on things they know nothing about and have no interest in learning. But I guess that's a talk for another day...
@@KopperNeoman I agree. However, I'm not talking about having some people rule over others, but having only the concerned be the custodians of the nation/society. The founding fathers of the US had it so only land owners could vote and the reasoning for this was that these people had a stake in the well being of the country long term. Today you can't implement something like that because a lot of people who care about the well being of the nation don't own land and a lot of people who own land don't care about it also (Bill Gates comes to mind). However, I think a test on basic civic knowledge (i.e. write 1 amendment from the bill of rights), basic history (i.e. name a founding father of the US) and basic current history (i.e. who is the current vice president of the US) should be given before every election to be eligible to vote. Also, perhaps some kind of service to the nation to grant you the option to take the test to vote as well. There are so many options for this. Allowing people to vote indiscriminately and therefore allowing people who don't know and don't care to make decisions about the nation can only lead to the downfall of the nation.
People on welfare shouldn't vote ,and everyone who works should have to pay taxes. It's the freedom from financial responsibility that creates low information voters. Skin in the game.
What’s the easiest way to speak out? I don’t have time for much “activism”, but I don’t go along with crap in my daily life. I’ve been the uncooperative questioner in a room of 150 people in a DEI training, I refused certain mandates at work and almost lost my job, I tell friends when and why I disagree, etc., but I don’t have a podcast or substack or anything. What else can people like me, with busy schedules, do that helps full-time rebels?
Sounds like you are doing plenty already. If you want to spend a little time / resources you can spare more effectively, you may consider investigating what is the most important thing for the public interest at the moment and focusing on that. If you already talk to the people about your takes, you can invest some of your time in learning more effective communication.
I work for a large contracting firm, most of whom are veterans - I can tell you most of the colleagues I speak with in private are against wokeness. We recently had DEI training, and nobody spoke up - including me, because the last person who who spoke up was no longer with the firm within two weeks. Recently, one of the FBI whistleblowers who sat before Congress was asked the question, "if you were to recommend any of your colleagues to become a whisteblower, would you encourage them to speak up?" The answer was a resounding, "no....because they will destroy you and your family." I, personally, have no problem speaking up if I were the only one that would be impacted...and I fear this is the state of mentality that _most_ people are fighting with.
'No' is the most powerful weapon we have. When skillfully used with humorous mockery, & utter scorn, it is nuclear in capability. Beware: you will be marked for destruction.
Good lecture. I have to say though, with the choices that seem to pop up to choose from sometimes makes it very difficult to choose: Angry- horrible flesh eating beast as main common enemy: pitchfork machete carrying villagers on one side-stupidly waving their weapons at anything that doesnt look like them: mad-evil scientists ready to throw poison on the beast and then clone it to make more: war hungry generals coming with tanks guns and soldiers: other hungry equally horrible beasts waiting in the wings to attack whoever wins....and businesses in each camp selling t-shirts in support. Its hard to choose which propaganda campaign to side with, because the oppositional teams seem to be equal in their ass-hol-ed-ness. I guess Im a doubter looking to be a rebel. I keep trying to find a good team to side with. As always, I will side with Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life. I enjoy your lectures.
I have come to the conclusion that since God's Word is the only truth, I will strive not to be hurting others in a mean way because of my own frustration and anger, but WILL speak out against the untruth of this Marxist ideology when opportunity presents itself. I'm very grateful that James is doing the hard work of educating me and many others so we can know what the "Woke's" strategies are and how to respond.
Good idea to issue guidance on how to recognise ring leaders from strivers (ie a random straight woman working as a diversity officer might be a ring leader, but could be just a striver as well) as well as how to convince doubters to be at the very least supporters (ie convince them that, if the worst happens, they won’t be any better off for not having financially supported the rebels)
@@brewmastermonk9356 Learn. Listen to the videos and take notes (my approach). As you learn more, you'll become more confident and more confident to engage and speak out. Then learn what/where you're deficient in you knowledge, and go back and listen to the videos again.
What is the name of the person whose talk you mentioned around 1min in of this podcast? 'Charles 'Eid......'? Not all of your followers are familiar with just American pronunciation without a written reference.
Ive been speaking up since 2010 , got banned from blogs , unfreinded on facebook , fell out with family and colleagues , and , its getting me no where , which is why i donated to you , Chris Rufo and Andy Ngo. And ill speak up when ever i can , but , i feel like im getting no where. I wont quit , ill always speak up , but , its not getting me where i want .
Yeah, I am going through that too. I think it's important to remember that we ARE going through a Marxist, cultural revolution and they win if we are quiet. My suggestion is to look for groups that are trying to push back against this and join them. If you can't find any then go to Church where you will most likely meet skepticals of Marxism. I've been telling myself to do these things but I'm pretty shy, but I do intend on going eventually. But you stood up to your friends and family which is a big step and that is very hard to do.
@@TheCurlyW thanks For sure i will still speak up , my experiances in a country ( im american ) with marxists and a failed armed marxist revolution , and their vile anti american rhetoric guarentees my responce to this is visceral and permanent . Its mind boggling how main stream media , social media and world globalist corporations are pushing this crap on us , very hard to challenge that. Good luck to you too
Remember that your enemy in this culture war has infinitely stronger unity, drive, and resources when compared to you alone. This means that your friends, family, and colleagues are more strongly exposed to their culture and won't understand your point of view as you oppose the culture of the mass media. What I'm saying here is that we really are fighting an uphill battle in this culture war. The more we let them get away with this, the harder it will be in the future to resist and rebel against this culture war. This is my motivation to rebelling, I know that I'll be more satisfied with choosing the super tough pushback of being an open rebel as opposed to living as a striver while hoping this will blow away in the future.
@@FreeSalesTips Yes . I also feel the ominous huge wall of obstacles , decades in the making , yet these last 3 years , its almost done blatently out in the open . I have no problem speaking up , its the futility of it , which is why i donate to people on the front line . But , ill never keep quiet . I do understand people worried about their jobs , there really isnt enough back up in place now to support people , and the neo marists , neo globalists are weaponising media , congress , the FBI , CIA, IRS , to fight for DEI , ESG , CCP....
@@FreeSalesTips the super tough pushback happens with guns and only guns. Everyone her is deluding themselves if they think they can out bullshit a bullshitter. But you can kill them.
I'm definitely a rebel most of the time, I just don't have much of a voice, being just a lowly carpenter. I am, however, an angry 34 year old man, im single with no no kids. I'm also well above average in intelligence, I lack social sensitivities, and I have little to lose that I deeply care about by speaking put, putting my faith down or telling these people where to go. I win arguments, and I'm completely ruthless with these people. The rebels are usually those with little to lose, or people who have such a strong sense of right and wrong that no fate is more terrible to them than to compromise their morals. I'm somewhere in between. I would rather have died than to take the jab. I didn't know how far the New Zealand government would go with their mandates, but I realized in that moment that for me, personally, bending to their will in that particular matter was a fate worse than death. I don't think the government expected people like me to exist in significant numbers. I broke the covid laws, publicly, in front of all the normies, and I fought their agenda every opportunity. I convinced as many people as possible to do the same, and I encouraged all the people who didn't like the agenda but hid it to publicly flout it like me.
It might really be as simple as employing a deliberate limbic hijack. Simply introduce the strivers to the concept of “useful idiot.” Hopefully they will be triggered enough by the implication (that they’re the idiots) to start doubting.
If you can't be a rebel, be a poker. Poke at them by looking like a normie. The clueless can say clueless stuff that awakens others. If cornered, deflect by looking like a striver. This takes some acting but it isn't very hard.
I say some wild shit, I say it from the stance as an autistic rebel. I do lack a filter when I talk, so I often openly introduce myself as slightly autistic. Some inner city polyamorous art teach pointed out that one of the former Popes was Nazi youth, I pointed out kids were the easiest to manipulate and/or program, also crazy ideologies always go for the kids first.
Sigh......(O_O) This framework also applies to my situation where an individual "ringleader" has moved into my neighborhood and is trying to turn it into if not a true "GANG" area then one friendly/accepting of gang behaviors. By that I mean organized crime, drugs, and violence with an entire secondary economy for the unemployed (and unemployable...) "strivers". As I'm the one-and-only "rebel" who is that one blade of grass the ringleader has to cut down in order to convert the entire city block, it has been very rewarding to anticipate and thwart the actions of his "Minions" to the degree the ringleader himself showed up at my home to state (while on hidden camera of course...), "If this were Mexico you'd already be dead" and lot's more thug intimidation/threat speak. But on a pure and practical level, the ringleader continues to "game" the other residents by creating interactions with them and then DARVO when they contact the property manager or law enforcement. He can't get past ME so his little gang operation is effectively limited/bottlenecked/quarantined to an area along just one street. Just saying that even IF on a purely practical (games theory) level the rebels act flawlessly the threat is NEVER eliminated. When this ringleader eventually gets incarcerated there'll be another "striver" ready to rise up and take his place. I mean, the ringleader before this one tried to do a hostile take-over of my home (have me improperly evicted with the cooperation of a corrupt landlord...). He failed and due to his failure/shame left to pursue more "favorable" ventures elsewhere. But the vacancy he created was filled in rather quickly. The take-a-way? The same tactics used/recommended to "Fight a Tyrannical Movement" can't effectively be used to prevent a ringleader from taking over a neighborhood and turning it into an area where organized crime is the new "Normal". If it doesn't work on this small scale then applying it on a large scale will achieve similar outcome(s). (_Oo)
That's why the cartels torture you to death and whack your family. The message gets across. Until you are willing to do what is necessary, you will be on the losing side. That's why we have the second.
@@saldownik The first "striver" actually announced to the group that getting me to move out or be unfairly evicted was such a "done deal" (easy, quick, cheap, and although done openly in plain sight it was "on the down-low"), he was going to throw a block party for everyone. Just the "gang friendly" members and their families were invited. There was going to be live music, dancing, free food, and free alcohol (party favors too-drugs) for the adults. For the kids? Pinatas and a bouncy castle. This celebration was to take place at MY home after the plan was successful and he took ownership. Part of the celebration was to formally give the home he WAS living in to one of the soldiers who took the lead in the harassment campaign. Just as a reward for "services rendered to the cause" like as in medieval times. Another announcement was that this was just the beginning as this same tactic was to used on the next person then the next until the entire neighborhood was one homogeneous zone . Then he would offer to the attendees and their families the opportunity to do favors for him in exchange for him doing favors for them. As these people were not only unemployed but generally unemployable to anything without a low entry barrier/low skill/low pay job? Of course they would say yes to easy and nontaxable income. They would become part of the gang's business model which is structured in the shape of an iceberg. True gang members with all the outward appearances of colors and tattoos being less than 10% of their numbers but garnering 90% of the public's/law enforcement's attention and resources. Yet these "gang-friendly" people with no criminal history could/would be subcontracted on an as needed basis to do all the things the gang "peacocks" couldn't do without getting unwanted/unproductive attention. This was enough of an incentive for the gang friendly people to move forward and join the neighborhood "Boss" in group harassment. Which did prove successful in displacing two other residents prior to failing to work in my situation. Those two other residences are now occupied by gang friendly owners who showcase the nice homes they have and exactly how they acquired them. (_Oo)
I had to laugh when James said, "...so your choices aren't that good." 27:37 (edited) I am a rebel, but I quit my public enterprise at the school board meetings after 2 years of being the only First Protestor of DEI/equity. I could have used a Second, Braver Protester. Not a peep. Somehow, my apish co-humans can smell me a mile away as a beta weakling who grants baseline sovereignty to everyone. This here 5-model model is interesting, and it has no particular hope for the introverts like me.
When you realize DEI, in this context, is the initials of Diversity Equity Inclusion, the whole idea becomes something of an oxymoron: Diversity just creates more excuses for segregation, which is never truly equal nor inclusive.
Maybe find another person who is against the Woke movement, and take them with you to the school board meetings. They can stand up and agree with you. Or, vice a versa.
@@patricialeonard9622 I partly agree, but I would say that the covid scare was powerful enough to scare some doubters into normie behavior (getting jabbed). Not me though!
This is exactly what's frustrated me the most in the last several years. Normies/doubters=sheep. It's so clear that the primary desire for the majority is to stay in the majority and they see "going with the flow" as virtuous instead of the behavior that tyrants need to rule. It's so easy to see that all we need to do is unite but that's why you see so much energy directed at pointing out our differences instead of our similarities. Anytime they try to work on our emotions instead of the facts then you should be able to realize you're being manipulated. If you notice, everything woke is rooted in emotions and "feelings". Sadly I lost so much respect for people lately and don't know how to get it back. "The only requirement for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing."-E. Burke; if more understood this our world would be better. Also, I don't see this as a "cultural war" but more than ever a war of good vs evil, and anyone who can't see this is siding with evil, by default.
4:50 Oh damn, this is on point with what I concluded from abusive groups, or such that are infiltrated by narcissistic exploiters who always go in to build a cult of personality (this ideology just gives them even better tools to catalyse that as it is a perfect guide to virtue signal moral superiority and thereby get rid of all dissenters or present or past victims of the abuser): It is the spineless, the cowardly, that enable them - even when in private they tell you that they know this is wrong and that the bad people are really bad people, they will tell to your face, with some whiny undertone as if to have pity with them, while you are the actual target of the abuse, that they won't say anything for they fear the abuser and don't want to be the next target - without them realizing it they say they throw you under the bus for their own imprisonment in the cult that they think wrong - usually because all their social life is tied to the group. This can just be a hobby group by the way, it doesn't need to be a political party or some such. In the long run I generalized/distilled this to: There are inherently evil people in the world, those high in dark tetradic traits, especially sadism, and on the counter side there are those that are exceptionally low in those traits. Depending on whether you are also a good person, low in dark tetradic traits or not, depends on whether you have courage, whether you have spine, whether you have principles you will stand by. Then your fear cannot override your altruism. Both of these extreme groups are very rare, but one affects the world more than the other: The Evil ones, because they are constantly looking out to get more ressources for themselves to feed their egotistical hunger. While inherently Good(tm) people do not, they are fine with what they have and usually only take a stand when bothered or those that they care about under direct threat. Think of Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings - he doesn't bother with the world, but would stomp out Sauron if he stepped on his turf. Maybe that's not the best example as that lacks that fire of justice people associate with the ultimately good, the heroes and saints so to speak. Those that average people look to and hope they'll do something so they themselves don't have to - which is really fun when you're the target of an abuse cult (think of these "cancellations") and the average people hope that you yourself are the hero to fights back, because they certainly won't do it for you, as they are, as James Lindsay said, cowards. This brings us to the third group in this, if you want to call it that, eternal battle between good and evil: The average masses. They are legion. This is quantity. The two extreme groups are exceptional people. The average and especially cowardly masses are being fought over by the evil side the most, as the good guys are rather bad at organizing. Not only do the latter have little interest in doing that, they also don't like to preach, and as a buddhist monk once put it: You can only work with individuals, not change the whole world. - The evil, dark tetradic people, do want to change the whole world though, and that only ever ends bad for the world, and they seek to corrupt every organization - which is another reason the good guys who already don't organize very well, being and preferring to be real individuals (contrary to the solely outwardly fake, fashionistic pseudo-individualism of the dark tetradic types), when do finally organize, that organization is immediately under attack by the evil side of things - and most good types then usually lack the experience, the knowledge and wisdom, of how to spot and deal with that without also turning tyrannical, whilst not falling for the emotionally manipulative tricks of the narcissistic toolbox of their opponents inside and out. In short, it is neither the good nor the evil people that decide the fate of the world - especially the latter will always exist, monsters will always exist and we know what makes them (some are simply biological anomalies) - It is instead the cowardly masses, the average people, who every single day decide for which side to act. If they don't support their heroes, or mature enough to become heroes themselves, and instead succumb to their fear of the monsters and out of that rather support them, then it all only goes one way. At best, their fear will paralyze them and flee and thus leave the field for the bad guys to take over. They desert, and thus create the desert. In drastic terms: The heroes and monsters don't have a decision, they are the way they are; they have developed into that. It is the cowards who decide who wins. The undeveloped. For they are legion.
I respect and appreciate James so, so much. That's why it's so disappointing to hear him encourage this kind of gatekeeping against the supposed "fake" rebels he deems as reactionaries. I don't know a single reactionary who could also honestly be called a Fascist who wants to install the next Mussolini or something. It's fine if James thinks that, but he needs to do a real, thorough breakdown of why he thinks their critiques of Liberalism are invalid before summarily dismissing so many potential allies. At the end of the day, we don't have to agree with people's prescriptions to benefit from their analysis of the problems. Someone like Yarvin, for example, whose prescription I find unworkable on nearly every conceivable level, nonetheless has several valid analysis to contribute. Same with Michael Malice or Auron MacIntyre. In all reality, there are people to our *Left* who fall into that category. Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, or even a Bill Maher type. They don't understand the full extent of the problem, and certainly don't have workable solutions, either. But that doesn't mean they should be dismissed outright as having nothing to contribute. Same with anyone who critiques Liberalism, which seems to be the people James is going after with this gatekeeping. I'd love to see Boyce or Michael Malice set up some kind of conversation between James and someone like Auron MacIntyre, The Distributist, etc. I really believe James would come around on some of his hostility to their ideas after a conversation like that. Either way, keep up the good work, James. Disagreements aside, you're one of the hardest workers and most valuable assets we have right now. Keep on keepin' on 🤙
James is very much aware of the facts presented by people to the right of him, but still refuses to accept the reality, since it would completely upset his liberal worldview.
It's because he has absolute faith in the US Bill of Rights. If part of the problem exists in its deviations from previously established British constitutional canon, he will have a hard time seeing that.
James Lindsay is back! Instead of trolling religious conservatives and getting a pound of flesh from milk toast Republicans for his own hipster bonafides, he actually has his eyes back on the prize with this podcast!
OMG! Did you know that the quote, when you discover the "technology" Communism in Civ IV, is: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint; when I ask why the poor have no food, the call me a communist." -- Dom Helder Camara Dom Helder Camara! In Civ IV! Yes, not on topic, but I had to tell someone...
"Speaking of ideology, Political Ponerology explains a phenomenon that had vexed me. How did Communist ideologues manage to convince the masses that they undertook their crimes for “the workers,” or “the people,” or egalitarianism? But even more perplexing, how did the ideologues convince themselves that their crimes were for the good of the common man? Łobaczewski explains that totalitarian ideology operates on two levels; the terms of the original ideology are taken at face value by true believers, while the party insiders substitute secondary meanings for the same terms, and normal people are subjected to gaslighting. Only the cognoscenti, the psychopaths, know and understand the secondary meanings. They recognize that actions purportedly undertaken on behalf of “the workers” translate into the domination of the party and state on behalf of the psychopaths themselves. The truth is the opposite of what the party insiders claim to be the case, and they know it. Political Ponerology thus explains the origin of “doublespeak,” which Orwell portrays so well. Coincidentally, Łobaczewski finished Political Ponerology in 1984." -- by Michael Rectenwald. From the forward to: "Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism", by Andrew Lobaczewski, 2022 (new edition, www.amazon.co.uk/Political-Ponerology-Science-Psychopathy-Totalitarianism-ebook/dp/B09VZBYS34)
Thanks for the info, comrade. We gotta fight to get billionaires out of our politics and fix the system so it serves the worker and not the corporations.
James saying what I've said so many times with this. The linear explanation is not very good, and benefits "strivers" going back and forth between different rings. People already have an idea of this with the concept of the pendulum, but "it is not merely phenomenon, it is a weapon wielded." Often used to encourage and be happy about the "reaction," and even suggest that it's "not worth it" or "impossible and fruitless" to go at grabbing that weigh being swung around to stop it or at least bear upon it. It's the similar or outright same triangle, two-dimensional model for authoritarian vs liberty; where the linear model everyone believes represents the opposing of different authorities, and the supposed "center" is still authority compromised or mixed between them, where liberty lies off elsewhere away from those means and against the fundamentals of those means. So any opposition are rebels, and therefore you can equivocate between them arbitrarily regardless of what scope their in and represent them as something else. I'd say a lot of potential more "reactionaries" tend towards "striver" as they don't have an understanding of those scopes of opposition, and only really care about their general opposition for their demand, rather then other scopes of opposition alongside what they have disagreement with. _Sorta, incapable of small victories, or just incapable of operating in another scope with a believe that that doing so ordains things they disagree with which is not true. Very "all or nothing" and can't save others for their sake alone, against being deceived/exploited. It's very worth it to have real disagreements not being followers/strivers._ Unfortunately, I have little to none influence... a shut-in out in the middle of nowhere. And that nowhere comes in that there is no one to support either in that "bum" manner.
What's most important is to recognise and delineate the distinction between Wokeness, and the Great Awakening. Which one begets the other, I don't know. It seems though that Wokeness, which is deconstructionist anti-logic, is catalyzing the Great Awakening, which is Critical Thinking grounded in Reason and Reality
I am a rebel. I am a doctor who once went public opposing an unjust law which coerced health workers to arrange the killing of full term babies. I had a support group of doubters but they were discouraged by the leader of a church which owned hospitals, schools and services which received government funding. So doubters can be undermined if their support for the very principles this church stands for results in loss of funding and therefore threatens that church 's place in society. Moral of the story - check who is demanding the allegiance of the doubters and who has bought the silence of that group. Also never trust a Catholic Archbishop.
Very interesting reveal in your last sentence. My experience in a seminary taught me to stick to your pastor and your church friends and stay far away from chanceries. Seminaries are horse auctions at the service of bishops.
You divide rebels into two groups: true rebels and reactionaries. There's actually three groups, but to distinguish them we first have to recognise that it's not a "rebellion" but a counter-revolution. You're not dealing with tyrant king, you're dealing with a revolutionary junta. Now you can recognise the three types of counter-revolutionary. You have the reactionary, you have the contrarian, and you have the revolutionary who has found himself on the outs. When the pendulum was swinging the other direction, when it wasn't a counter-revolution but a revolution, he was gung ho for guilloting the aristocrats and moving the junta into the palace. Now that the revolution is devouring her own children and the junta is pointed at him, he finds himself hestitantly in bed with the counter-revolutionaries. He finds himself fighting a war on two fronts because he lacks the humility to admit that the revolution was in error in the first place. He doesn't want to restore the nobility, he rejects the notion of nobility. He does not believe that the problem was that the tyrant king was vicious, he believes that kings cannot be virtuous in the first place. He's wrong, but he doesn't want to return to the peasantry because he lacks the virtue of contentment. Maybe you could say he's a striver with foresight.
When James Lindsey dismissed the ringleaders calling the rebels ringleaders by saying that's only some of them, it's not a true refutation. If the rebels are the authority of dissenters (assumed from the setup) then they are the ringleaders. It's shown in a simple question, when the rebels gain power, what happens next? Whether you have a romantic view or a pessimistic view, the rebels thought leaders become the next ringleaders. It is exactly this phenomenon that we can see in the cult of woke. They perpetually see themselves as the rebels to authority, even when that authority is aligned to them, and it is because they have this same perspective. There is even a rational, if not realistic, argument that could be mapped Lindsey's hierarchy of people's: "Republicans are the ringleaders, Democrats are the strivers, normies are still normies, there are some skeptical doubters, and we (the woke) are the rebels". Would they ever come to this conclusion? No, but this is to show that Lindsey's paradigm is flawed from only having a narrow perspective rather than a broad understanding of power dynamics.
It's not necessary to start one yourself as there are non-trivial consequences for publicly rebelling. What I do recommend is to improve your theoretical understanding by studying these New Discourses podcasts. The reason is so that you're able to speak to normies about our counter-revolt and speak with authority about the details behind our counter-revolt.
Insurance is a hedge against risk. If what you’re saying is true, then we should come together to create a type of free speech protection product that will help provide legal protections for average people. $10/mo and we can speak our minds. If you try to silence us, we have powerful legal backing. If anyone has any contacts for making this happen, please respond. Let’s get this started.
I’m from England and I’m about to go to university to do a masters in psychotherapy. I’m quite talented in the field and I’m also highly keyed into the gnostic cult religion of wokism. When I get to university I fully expect to be required to adopt “the people’s perspective” and I’ll refuse outright. If I’m pushed then I know I can rely on myself to articulate very strongly exactly what my problems are and why I’m refusing to join the cult. I hope I can bring people to a true understanding and I’ll reach people but it’s quite a long shot.
Kudos to you for running the gauntlet. Somebody has to.👍
As a cult rejecting therapist, stay encouraged! You will need it because psychology and sociology is the inner sanctum of this cult.
Great intentions. But it's a cult. Truth doesn't matter. They drank the Kool aid.
Good luck friend. We're all in this together
Exposing yourself early on as a rebel is effectively shooting yourself in the foot. They are the ones in power in that arena, and they will use that power to get you out somehow. What you could do is play along with their nonsense, all the while collecting as much hard evidence of what's really going on in there as you can. These people are fighting dirty - we need to fight dirty too..
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny." -- Luke Rudkowski
Sad that so many don't realize it. So they go along to get along and that hurts us all.
Wisdom Drop #7
This country wasn’t founded on non compliance. This country was founded by shooting redcoats in the face. ~ James Yaeger.
There is a guy in my town who writes messages in chalk, our local antifa group hates him… I started doing the same thing. People yell at me and call me christen as if it is a slur… this is in Washington… I do this every other day
Probably in Olympia I'm guessing?
Damn. Communists suck
What messages does he write?
Start stamping QR codes
Local antifa group lol
Five types of people involved in a movement:
Ringleaders
Strivers
Normies
Doubters
Rebels
@@ReverseTranscriptase Yes. The lines can be a little fuzzy between people on the list.
A fellow Lindsay fan. He does the reading so I don't have to :)
@@ownNWOnow ... normy ? ...
Full on Rebel baby!! I challenge this crap every day at work. 80-85% of people agree when I speak up.
Yep and notice that, we both use our full birth name. Come on doubters, it might seem a small step but put your full name to your thoughts in the public space. Within reason ofourse depending on how edgey your verbage is.
@@michaelnuttall5896 yeah that's dangerous, I mean I did it because I have a common name but I have a buddy who has a very unique name and he'll be put on notice instantly lol.
He already had some weird leftists dox him so he left Twitter and deleted all socials. He claimed some people were watching him at work but he wasn't sure if they were "the mob".
I say use caution but don't completely give in to them
Me too! Keep fighting 🤝
How are you not fired? Last time I tried I was fired and couldn't get another source of money for months
@@jackalcoyote8777 By objecting calmly, respectfully and backed by a MUCH deeper understanding of these issues than 99% of those spouting them (thanks to James L!). The key is to ask questions that they can't answer rather than trying to convince them they are wrong. The good faith people see what is happening and the bad faith actors reveal themselves.
Another important bullet point.
I see a lot of strivers and normies in my personal life. Friends or family members who just want to live their lives in peace, in all honesty, so they either don't listen or just go along with the grain.
I feel like I'm in Invasion of the Body Snatchers but I'm the only one with the special glasses that sees the truth.
As the cult pushes for more ground more and more people will start questioning what is happening, that is the time to wake people up and lead them to safety. I had the same experience but have noticed more and more people open to the idea that Woke are dangerous
As long as you don't start screaming like Donald Sutherland you'll be fine.
@@matweb8195 🤣 I'll watch that whole movie just for that scene!
@@matweb8195 I am severely tempted to point and shriek like body-snatcher Sutherland when I appear to be surrounded on all sides by malicious dwarves in red anoraks.
Same
No worries James, I can't help myself from speaking up every day and every time I her someone say something promoting this cult. It's now like a reflex, like when the doctor bumps your knee with the little hammer and you kick. This is a good talk , thanks! 💕💕
Hahahaha same. I have almost made an occupation of shaming half of the government goons of Lincoln Nebraska and those in the Nebraska government and UNL.
30 minutes is short to me, anyway 😊. Always thrilled by new content from a gentleman & scholar, thank you James
You da man. Thanks. These videos give me the courage to, at the very least, use my limited knowledge to try and convince my loved ones that there is a fight for our freedom going on. I'll learn more, so that I can help you, and others like you, better.
Me and some friends own a web design business. For you James our services are free and at your disposal as much as we can help. God speed my friend
The best way to help is to know the truth about this revolution to destroy western society. When we are able to speak the truth accurately, we can openly rebel against this revolution by teaching normies about the lies spoken through the "motte and bailey fallacy". We need to expose the fragility of this revolution as it is very likely that the majority would reject the revolution if only they had enough understanding.
I think it’s the first time I’ve heard actual appropriate descriptions of the people involved in the “world show”. I’m certainly able to identify those participants who are very inline with what you described, and like you I can only ask for more vocal support from the silent majority of doubters, as taking all the heat has been tough but a lifelong struggle as well.
I guess I had trained for being the “voice” for reason and accountability so long, at this point (last 5-6 years)I don’t even consider courage as a necessary attribute, it’s just I can’t be any other way. Saying what is true and right and goes against what most people are told to believe, has been isolating and aggravating and damaging, but worth every moment of it.
The good part ; I did realize that most people who surrounded me were not yet true to themselves. Cleaned out my life effectively.
Thank you for your valuable insights. ❤
Great advice. One of my rebel fantasies is, if I had FU money, I would like to go back to college and major in sociology and become an absolute wind up merchant uber boomer in every class. I'd vlog the whole thing too.
But you'd also be supporting the Cathedral with your tuition money
If you had FU money I think it would be better used to help like-minded people who share your values instead of helping to fund the very institutions that are causing all this mess
@@redpillsatori3020 whats the point of having the money if you cant enjoy spending it though?
I'll contribute to the go fund me.
I dream about being told I have to wear a pronoun badge in a humanities class. Then I get up and remove everyone's pronoun badges and shred them and throw the torn up paper in the face of the teacher and anyone who objects. I tell them that for 68 years no-one had any difficulty working out I was a woman when they wanted to discriminate against me, so why hide behind a piece of paper now.
Thank you for your hard work, James. It means a lot to someone who lives in a blue district and has family who have been completely ideologically captured.
Okay, can you define how they have been ideologically captured for me? How have they been ideologically captured by democrats?
Thank you so much for this video AND all your others. Your message and education is important, and it is definitely helping. PLEASE continue your work. You're providing a vocabulary and intellectual roadmap for navigating some of the most obscure unspoken challenges we are all facing in the present societal landscape both publicly, professionally, and privately. Thanks again. 🙏✊
This message must be spread to every doubter and I couldn't agree with you more when you say that we don't like hearing them secretly give us their support as it's not the least bit useful.
It's only useful in that we can reply to them that they need to stop being cowards and speak up and fight back otherwise get out of our inbox ❤
Excellent Strategic Primer!
Finally, there is something we can actually DO about this mess!
Thank you for your calm and considered videos. Very helpful. And thanks for not yelling at or insulting your followers in the comments or in your videos. The first anti-woke person I listened to on TH-cam started out great, but then devolved into turning against her own followers and seeming very contemptuous of them so I unsubscribed from her. I like to think of myself as a shy rebel, having moved up from a doubter.
A pretty good analysis.
I recognize the types.
Something to examine with every issue in the news.
I always functioned as an outsider and an observer, often backing the play of a rebel.
I would speak up when others wouldn't, but I usually ended up kicked out.
It wasn't very effective, and the leaders always labelled me as a loose cannon.
They didn't want me around at all.
I sometimes simply destroyed ring leaders and left everyone confused.
Leadership is all too complicated for me.
I'm a little too much like the nobody cowboy who rides into town, shoots down all the criminals, and rides away.
Because I never found a place with people who suit me.
God sent me to a place where I could not have a good life, because it is not good for the man to be alone.
No community welcomed me, so i shook their dust off my feet.
They were all going down to death with their leaders.
I always function as the cool guy with laser cannon arms that shows up, kills all the bad guys then double backflip and kick the main boss in the eye and light a cigarette and say "EYE dont care anyways" then leave. yeah, im basically total badass cool guy. ring leaders better not mess with me
I’ve been wanting you to do a video where you start with the indoctrinated “cultists“ and work your way backward to the philosophy behind it. This video is pretty close to what I wanted. Awesome job. Thanks.
James - great info. Suggestion - use a story and examples from to help explain each term. For example, the Great Leap Forward, all the players, their roles & actions
My life experience has led me to the conclusion that the only way to stop somebody from hurting you is hurting them back.😊
Avoid initiating, and avoid acting in revenge, but always be ready to administer justice.
@@BigMichael78 you are a fool. Defense always fails. Offense is required to win. That means initiating. And that means murders
The reason we have the second is for exactly these times. It's great to try a counter propaganda campaign. It's better to start whacking those that need whacking. It has its own logic.
exactly.
I respect that conviction, but I am going to stick with Jesus's words and love my enemy.
Thank you for this explanation - makes sense.
I recently confronted my 65 year old leftist mom on politics and it was a disaster. She lives alone, with her cat, reads the Washington Post religiously and watches PBS Newshour. So she has been sufficiently brainwash by these people so I try to talk some sense to her and she just cuss me out. I stood my ground and didn't back down despite her best attempts to shame me. But she took an unusually long shower and I think she was crying. Now I feel awful and I haven't been able to sleep for a few days because of guilt. I don't know if I made the best decision because she was so much happier without the confrontation, but the state of our country was eating me away and it was due to some of the politics she subscibes to.
Sorry that the convo went downhill. Keep in mind you and tens of millions of your generation are inheriting the mess that her favored policies have & will continue to burden & punish us all.
If you are still confronting your mother, you haven't yet individuated. Get out and try it in the real world.
@@ratpark5008 You're right.
@@TheCurlyW sorry I sounded so harsh. Best wishes to you.
@@ratpark5008 life is harsh. Time spent giving a shit about a communist is time wasted.
Idk really why the algo suggested me on of your Vids, but I surely appreciate your thoughtfull comment on the topics and Issues you cover . From what I ahev heard so far, your analyses are spot on . Thanks for what you are doing .
+1 sub .
This is a fantastic presentation
Thank you
Bravo monster mystro James Lindsay podcasts.
I try constantly to speak up about this stuff, but people just look at me like I'm insane and then stop talking to me- or they mock me and deride me. I'm not sure what I can do differently, I never took any debate classes and I am not very persuasive.
Same for me...but finally had one person wake up to see i've been right for 3 years. Just one person won is worth it. Keep trying.
Sounds like practice to me. You're not really selling something so you have to be very empathetic, that in mind. Don't just rattle off crushing realities to them, discern what may be a luke warm take, cattered specifically for them and guage the reaction. Most people won't even entertain a non scripted, tv person take without having a panic attack.
Imagining you blurting out, Marx was a mystic who took queues from an ancient European death cult.. and so was Hitler so you see he wasnt a bad guy, ok maybe just a little bit but for the ri... etc lol
Don't sweat it too much kid, you will be a winner if you can provide for yourself. Sometimes the way to win is just walk away.
Focus not on convincing them but simply saying what is true. And don't ever let yourself think that you are better then them, I have made that mistake myself. Debate skills are useful for an audience, but they won't help you talk to a friend. Also be very precise in what you say, save links to sources and speak about those things. Nothing wrong with saying I don't know. And simply questions can make it clear that the other person doesn't know either.
What do you mean by that?
How do you know what your saying is true?
What if you are wrong about that?
Why does what your saying matter?
Almost no one can answer these 4 questions, and they really show what someone's true motivations are. If you don't know what to say, just ask questions.
Being a rebel is on average suboptimal strategy for life fitness. You actually pay a high alternative costs doing that. There are a few rebels for that reason.
I'd try talking to people more about achieving high life fitness and throwing political takes only off-hand. That will appeal more to the normies and the strivers and maybe will help you too.
It might be true that being the second one to speak out requires more courage than the first. What is for certain is that being the second is far more EFFECTIVE than being the first. For instance, college professors are used to dealing with a compliant audience to soak up their claptrap with only the occasional one speaking out against him. When a second rebel joins in it tends to unnerve the professor. Because one is just that, one. But two can mean 3 or 5 or the whole class. More importantly it greatly increases the courage of the other doubters in the room and makes the normies more easily indo doubters.
So look for every opportunity to be the second to speak out and take that opportunity.
Usually points in your videos are very clear. In this one, I had trouble understanding what you meant by reactionary ringleaders. Please explain that with greater clarity.
16:40 There was no second who stood up.
I saw it would fall like dominos, a house of cards, if one, maybe two, did. You're speaking from my heart here, or whatever you say in english. All of the things said, I have at least touched upon on several notes flying around here over the years. Of course the perpetrators seek to gaslight about the very process they employ as well as what could defeat them, sowing further doubt, especially through their conscious and unconscious agents. I had figured it out surprisingly early, but not found enough confidence in it, trapped in that endless gaslighting prison of self-defeating doubt and more. I want to say, think, I just failed to inspire people, was not thorough enough, not pushy enough, because that is so contrary to my nature - doing this feels like walking on your hands, and it seems to require it. People too far away to affect things directly, who would have kicked in some doors, metaphorically speaking, had they been closer, said I was the one made an example and from just how many people told me that they knew it was bad and it was wrong what was being done... That was the majority. But nobody dared to even speak with each other, so everyone thought that everyone was on board with the bad stuff, although nobody except the parasitic infiltrating ringleaders were, although nobody was on board. It was just a demon, an imagination that everyone was alone, that everyone was the only one against the wrongness. Divide and conquer, I guess.
In this case, divide not by class or such, but by fear itself.
I should have just gotten them all, or at least a seed group of 3-5 in a room, that had all already individually told me their real stance beneath their cowardly silence, so they could see the others, and that they're almost half a football team already, and thus making up a significant portion of the group (especially when it's the more active core members of the group).
Why didn't I? I did think of it. Aside from other twisted nonsense probably rooted in childhood by not wanting to bother people in the slightest (that makes you a very easy target btw), doing this very thing seemed to me conspiratorial and manipulative, and isn't that what the bad guys do? I don't wanna be like the bad guys, so much so that I mistook something that isn't that, but is similar, for that. Of course the bad guys would accuse you of conspiracy if you did that, because that's what they're doing. However, this would not have been manipulate, because it would have been to dispel the manipulation, to dispel the illusion, to negate the magic spell. Sharing truth negates the magic. Opening people's eyes to what's really going on and showing them that they're NOT alone is what gives them strength - the "evil wizards", the narcissists and psychopaths, put their spells on people under the pretense of doing that.
The bad guys always use the corrupt form of something, of the thing they name as good.
Never think that the pure form of something, the real form of something makes you like them, because it seems similar to their corrupted form.
Sorry for the rant, maybe cryptic words... this is... hits a lot of personal wound spots.
I'm a defector and I'm glad, but the frustrating thing is not being able to get more people to also defect. And I think the main reason is that they don't want to go against the grain or rock the boat. Which I can understand. People don't like to lose friends or cause conflict in their lives. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, even though it's exhausting sometimes.
Excellent strategy and tactics James!
In my jurisdiction, there’s a small contingent of lawyers trying to fight back against some scary/authoritarian moves on part of the local Law Society/Bar Association. The problem is that they’re too small in number and got voted out when the ringleaders/strivers mobilized the normal everyday lawyers. It’s a rough spot to be in.
A very powerful message chock full of extremely useful and important information. Thank you, James. Just realized this is Episode 51. How wonderfully ironic since most Normies would probably find this information quite alien. LOL 👽
Good one! 😂😂
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
I so needed to hear this.
Stay strong!
Thanks James!
Thank you for acknowledging the RIGHT’S PROBLEM!
4:15 the foundation for why power systems inevitably become corrupt. A critical insight.
Thank you❤
Precisely for the reasons you've mentioned here is why I've had issues with democracy for years, maybe decades at this point. Normies should not be allowed to vote as far as I'm concerned. My estimation is that normies make the vast majority of the population and they only believe whatever it is that they perceive will make their lives easier or less difficult when it comes to things related to general society. Normies are not bad people necessarily, they just don't care enough about anything other than their limited interests to have an informed opinion on it and therefore, shouldn't be allowed to "voice" their opinion through voting on things they know nothing about and have no interest in learning.
But I guess that's a talk for another day...
The only problem - as CS Lewis put it - is that while some people are good only to be slaves, no man is worthy of being their master.
@@KopperNeoman I agree. However, I'm not talking about having some people rule over others, but having only the concerned be the custodians of the nation/society.
The founding fathers of the US had it so only land owners could vote and the reasoning for this was that these people had a stake in the well being of the country long term. Today you can't implement something like that because a lot of people who care about the well being of the nation don't own land and a lot of people who own land don't care about it also (Bill Gates comes to mind). However, I think a test on basic civic knowledge (i.e. write 1 amendment from the bill of rights), basic history (i.e. name a founding father of the US) and basic current history (i.e. who is the current vice president of the US) should be given before every election to be eligible to vote. Also, perhaps some kind of service to the nation to grant you the option to take the test to vote as well. There are so many options for this.
Allowing people to vote indiscriminately and therefore allowing people who don't know and don't care to make decisions about the nation can only lead to the downfall of the nation.
People on welfare shouldn't vote ,and everyone who works should have to pay taxes. It's the freedom from financial responsibility that creates low information voters. Skin in the game.
Thank you James - I'm working on a Catholic-based Vampire Hunter Game - This will help me with plot structure - Thank you Brother!
The co-opting the rebels thing you talk about reminds me of Occupy Wallstreet.
Thanks 🙏
Outstanding analysis!
This is a good one.
What’s the easiest way to speak out? I don’t have time for much “activism”, but I don’t go along with crap in my daily life. I’ve been the uncooperative questioner in a room of 150 people in a DEI training, I refused certain mandates at work and almost lost my job, I tell friends when and why I disagree, etc., but I don’t have a podcast or substack or anything. What else can people like me, with busy schedules, do that helps full-time rebels?
Sounds like you are doing plenty already. If you want to spend a little time / resources you can spare more effectively, you may consider investigating what is the most important thing for the public interest at the moment and focusing on that. If you already talk to the people about your takes, you can invest some of your time in learning more effective communication.
I work for a large contracting firm, most of whom are veterans - I can tell you most of the colleagues I speak with in private are against wokeness. We recently had DEI training, and nobody spoke up - including me, because the last person who who spoke up was no longer with the firm within two weeks. Recently, one of the FBI whistleblowers who sat before Congress was asked the question, "if you were to recommend any of your colleagues to become a whisteblower, would you encourage them to speak up?" The answer was a resounding, "no....because they will destroy you and your family." I, personally, have no problem speaking up if I were the only one that would be impacted...and I fear this is the state of mentality that _most_ people are fighting with.
I’m very interested in Nudist Courses Bulletin but can’t find much info.
'No' is the most powerful weapon we have. When skillfully used with humorous mockery, & utter scorn, it is nuclear in capability. Beware: you will be marked for destruction.
Good lecture. I have to say though, with the choices that seem to pop up to choose from sometimes makes it very difficult to choose: Angry- horrible flesh eating beast as main common enemy: pitchfork machete carrying villagers on one side-stupidly waving their weapons at anything that doesnt look like them: mad-evil scientists ready to throw poison on the beast and then clone it to make more: war hungry generals coming with tanks guns and soldiers: other hungry equally horrible beasts waiting in the wings to attack whoever wins....and businesses in each camp selling t-shirts in support. Its hard to choose which propaganda campaign to side with, because the oppositional teams seem to be equal in their ass-hol-ed-ness. I guess Im a doubter looking to be a rebel. I keep trying to find a good team to side with. As always, I will side with Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life.
I enjoy your lectures.
At lease there are others like you who seek Jesus more than this culture war. At least you have a community
I have come to the conclusion that since God's Word is the only truth, I will strive not to be hurting others in a mean way because of my own frustration and anger, but WILL speak out against the untruth of this Marxist ideology when opportunity presents itself. I'm very grateful that James is doing the hard work of educating me and many others so we can know what the "Woke's" strategies are and how to respond.
I was about to be like, let me tell you about how great Jesus's team is then. But it seems you already know lol.
Good idea to issue guidance on how to recognise ring leaders from strivers (ie a random straight woman working as a diversity officer might be a ring leader, but could be just a striver as well) as well as how to convince doubters to be at the very least supporters (ie convince them that, if the worst happens, they won’t be any better off for not having financially supported the rebels)
Know how to convince doubters? Bullets
I'm feeling called out a little.
The truth will set us free.
On what part?
@@scillyautomatic the part where the doubters need to be more brave.
@@brewmastermonk9356 Ah! Well, in that case, I'm feeling called out too!
@@brewmastermonk9356 Learn. Listen to the videos and take notes (my approach). As you learn more, you'll become more confident and more confident to engage and speak out. Then learn what/where you're deficient in you knowledge, and go back and listen to the videos again.
What is the name of the person whose talk you mentioned around 1min in of this podcast? 'Charles 'Eid......'? Not all of your followers are familiar with just American pronunciation without a written reference.
Eisenstein
Ephesians 6:10-20 helps, too.
Ive been speaking up since 2010 , got banned from blogs , unfreinded on facebook , fell out with family and colleagues , and , its getting me no where , which is why i donated to you , Chris Rufo and Andy Ngo.
And ill speak up when ever i can , but , i feel like im getting no where.
I wont quit , ill always speak up , but , its not getting me where i want .
Yeah, I am going through that too. I think it's important to remember that we ARE going through a Marxist, cultural revolution and they win if we are quiet. My suggestion is to look for groups that are trying to push back against this and join them. If you can't find any then go to Church where you will most likely meet skepticals of Marxism. I've been telling myself to do these things but I'm pretty shy, but I do intend on going eventually. But you stood up to your friends and family which is a big step and that is very hard to do.
@@TheCurlyW thanks
For sure i will still speak up , my experiances in a country ( im american ) with marxists and a failed armed marxist revolution , and their vile anti american rhetoric guarentees my responce to this is visceral and permanent .
Its mind boggling how main stream media , social media and world globalist corporations are pushing this crap on us , very hard to challenge that.
Good luck to you too
Remember that your enemy in this culture war has infinitely stronger unity, drive, and resources when compared to you alone. This means that your friends, family, and colleagues are more strongly exposed to their culture and won't understand your point of view as you oppose the culture of the mass media. What I'm saying here is that we really are fighting an uphill battle in this culture war. The more we let them get away with this, the harder it will be in the future to resist and rebel against this culture war. This is my motivation to rebelling, I know that I'll be more satisfied with choosing the super tough pushback of being an open rebel as opposed to living as a striver while hoping this will blow away in the future.
@@FreeSalesTips
Yes .
I also feel the ominous huge wall of obstacles , decades in the making , yet these last 3 years , its almost done blatently out in the open .
I have no problem speaking up , its the futility of it , which is why i donate to people on the front line . But , ill never keep quiet . I do understand people worried about their jobs , there really isnt enough back up in place now to support people , and the neo marists , neo globalists are weaponising media , congress , the FBI , CIA, IRS , to fight for DEI , ESG , CCP....
@@FreeSalesTips the super tough pushback happens with guns and only guns. Everyone her is deluding themselves if they think they can out bullshit a bullshitter. But you can kill them.
28:37 "You need to locate yourself within this..."
I'm definitely a rebel most of the time, I just don't have much of a voice, being just a lowly carpenter. I am, however, an angry 34 year old man, im single with no no kids. I'm also well above average in intelligence, I lack social sensitivities, and I have little to lose that I deeply care about by speaking put, putting my faith down or telling these people where to go. I win arguments, and I'm completely ruthless with these people.
The rebels are usually those with little to lose, or people who have such a strong sense of right and wrong that no fate is more terrible to them than to compromise their morals. I'm somewhere in between. I would rather have died than to take the jab. I didn't know how far the New Zealand government would go with their mandates, but I realized in that moment that for me, personally, bending to their will in that particular matter was a fate worse than death. I don't think the government expected people like me to exist in significant numbers. I broke the covid laws, publicly, in front of all the normies, and I fought their agenda every opportunity. I convinced as many people as possible to do the same, and I encouraged all the people who didn't like the agenda but hid it to publicly flout it like me.
It might really be as simple as employing a deliberate limbic hijack.
Simply introduce the strivers to the concept of “useful idiot.” Hopefully they will be triggered enough by the implication (that they’re the idiots) to start doubting.
I don't think they're smart enough, genuinely.
If you can't be a rebel, be a poker. Poke at them by looking like a normie. The clueless can say clueless stuff that awakens others. If cornered, deflect by looking like a striver. This takes some acting but it isn't very hard.
Yes I see what you mean!
I say some wild shit, I say it from the stance as an autistic rebel. I do lack a filter when I talk, so I often openly introduce myself as slightly autistic. Some inner city polyamorous art teach pointed out that one of the former Popes was Nazi youth, I pointed out kids were the easiest to manipulate and/or program, also crazy ideologies always go for the kids first.
Kinda like Norm Macdonald’s humor?
"This is not the agenda you are looking for"
"Move along. Move along."
It does in some mysterious feel like star wars doesn't it
@@dean_l33 Because star wars is based, especially the books written by Timothy Zahn. The entire world building has Christian themes throughout it.
What if I can't figure out who the ring leaders are?
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Sigh......(O_O)
This framework also applies to my situation where an individual "ringleader" has moved into my neighborhood and is trying to turn it into if not a true "GANG" area then one friendly/accepting of gang behaviors. By that I mean organized crime, drugs, and violence with an entire secondary economy for the unemployed (and unemployable...) "strivers".
As I'm the one-and-only "rebel" who is that one blade of grass the ringleader has to cut down in order to convert the entire city block, it has been very rewarding to anticipate and thwart the actions of his "Minions" to the degree the ringleader himself showed up at my home to state (while on hidden camera of course...), "If this were Mexico you'd already be dead" and lot's more thug intimidation/threat speak.
But on a pure and practical level, the ringleader continues to "game" the other residents by creating interactions with them and then DARVO when they contact the property manager or law enforcement. He can't get past ME so his little gang operation is effectively limited/bottlenecked/quarantined to an area along just one street.
Just saying that even IF on a purely practical (games theory) level the rebels act flawlessly the threat is NEVER eliminated. When this ringleader eventually gets incarcerated there'll be another "striver" ready to rise up and take his place.
I mean, the ringleader before this one tried to do a hostile take-over of my home (have me improperly evicted with the cooperation of a corrupt landlord...). He failed and due to his failure/shame left to pursue more "favorable" ventures elsewhere. But the vacancy he created was filled in rather quickly.
The take-a-way? The same tactics used/recommended to "Fight a Tyrannical Movement" can't effectively be used to prevent a ringleader from taking over a neighborhood and turning it into an area where organized crime is the new "Normal". If it doesn't work on this small scale then applying it on a large scale will achieve similar outcome(s).
(_Oo)
That's why the cartels torture you to death and whack your family. The message gets across. Until you are willing to do what is necessary, you will be on the losing side. That's why we have the second.
How was the ringleader actually planning to make your block gang-friendly?
@@saldownik The first "striver" actually announced to the group that getting me to move out or be unfairly evicted was such a "done deal" (easy, quick, cheap, and although done openly in plain sight it was "on the down-low"), he was going to throw a block party for everyone. Just the "gang friendly" members and their families were invited.
There was going to be live music, dancing, free food, and free alcohol (party favors too-drugs) for the adults. For the kids? Pinatas and a bouncy castle. This celebration was to take place at MY home after the plan was successful and he took ownership.
Part of the celebration was to formally give the home he WAS living in to one of the soldiers who took the lead in the harassment campaign. Just as a reward for "services rendered to the cause" like as in medieval times. Another announcement was that this was just the beginning as this same tactic was to used on the next person then the next until the entire neighborhood was one homogeneous zone .
Then he would offer to the attendees and their families the opportunity to do favors for him in exchange for him doing favors for them. As these people were not only unemployed but generally unemployable to anything without a low entry barrier/low skill/low pay job? Of course they would say yes to easy and nontaxable income.
They would become part of the gang's business model which is structured in the shape of an iceberg. True gang members with all the outward appearances of colors and tattoos being less than 10% of their numbers but garnering 90% of the public's/law enforcement's attention and resources. Yet these "gang-friendly" people with no criminal history could/would be subcontracted on an as needed basis to do all the things the gang "peacocks" couldn't do without getting unwanted/unproductive attention.
This was enough of an incentive for the gang friendly people to move forward and join the neighborhood "Boss" in group harassment. Which did prove successful in displacing two other residents prior to failing to work in my situation. Those two other residences are now occupied by gang friendly owners who showcase the nice homes they have and exactly how they acquired them. (_Oo)
@@hwugh1 That's some crazy stories. I admire your dedication at resistance.
I had to laugh when James said, "...so your choices aren't that good." 27:37 (edited)
I am a rebel, but I quit my public enterprise at the school board meetings after 2 years of being the only First Protestor of DEI/equity. I could have used a Second, Braver Protester. Not a peep.
Somehow, my apish co-humans can smell me a mile away as a beta weakling who grants baseline sovereignty to everyone. This here 5-model model is interesting, and it has no particular hope for the introverts like me.
Work on growing a pair - metaphorically speaking..
@@SineEyed You bet.
When you realize DEI, in this context, is the initials of Diversity Equity Inclusion, the whole idea becomes something of an oxymoron: Diversity just creates more excuses for segregation, which is never truly equal nor inclusive.
If someone gives you shit,lean right into them and call them motherfucker cocksucker a few times very loudly. All beta gone. And carry a gun
Maybe find another person who is against the Woke movement, and take them with you to the school board meetings. They can stand up and agree with you. Or, vice a versa.
What would be the percentages% of each type??
Ringleaders 5%
Strivers 15%
Normies 60%
Doubters 15%
Rebel 5%
What do you think?
to me it feels like;
ringleaders
@@LazerGuy89
I think you are right with the 1%
The strivers and the rebels have the same % Interesting..
What percent took the jab?? That is the percentage of the normies.
@@patricialeonard9622 I partly agree, but I would say that the covid scare was powerful enough to scare some doubters into normie behavior (getting jabbed). Not me though!
When the Path is the Goal, not all means are permissible.
I am saving this to my quotes folder.
This is exactly what's frustrated me the most in the last several years. Normies/doubters=sheep. It's so clear that the primary desire for the majority is to stay in the majority and they see "going with the flow" as virtuous instead of the behavior that tyrants need to rule. It's so easy to see that all we need to do is unite but that's why you see so much energy directed at pointing out our differences instead of our similarities. Anytime they try to work on our emotions instead of the facts then you should be able to realize you're being manipulated. If you notice, everything woke is rooted in emotions and "feelings". Sadly I lost so much respect for people lately and don't know how to get it back. "The only requirement for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing."-E. Burke; if more understood this our world would be better. Also, I don't see this as a "cultural war" but more than ever a war of good vs evil, and anyone who can't see this is siding with evil, by default.
4:50 Oh damn, this is on point with what I concluded from abusive groups, or such that are infiltrated by narcissistic exploiters who always go in to build a cult of personality (this ideology just gives them even better tools to catalyse that as it is a perfect guide to virtue signal moral superiority and thereby get rid of all dissenters or present or past victims of the abuser): It is the spineless, the cowardly, that enable them - even when in private they tell you that they know this is wrong and that the bad people are really bad people, they will tell to your face, with some whiny undertone as if to have pity with them, while you are the actual target of the abuse, that they won't say anything for they fear the abuser and don't want to be the next target - without them realizing it they say they throw you under the bus for their own imprisonment in the cult that they think wrong - usually because all their social life is tied to the group. This can just be a hobby group by the way, it doesn't need to be a political party or some such.
In the long run I generalized/distilled this to: There are inherently evil people in the world, those high in dark tetradic traits, especially sadism, and on the counter side there are those that are exceptionally low in those traits. Depending on whether you are also a good person, low in dark tetradic traits or not, depends on whether you have courage, whether you have spine, whether you have principles you will stand by. Then your fear cannot override your altruism.
Both of these extreme groups are very rare, but one affects the world more than the other: The Evil ones, because they are constantly looking out to get more ressources for themselves to feed their egotistical hunger. While inherently Good(tm) people do not, they are fine with what they have and usually only take a stand when bothered or those that they care about under direct threat.
Think of Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings - he doesn't bother with the world, but would stomp out Sauron if he stepped on his turf. Maybe that's not the best example as that lacks that fire of justice people associate with the ultimately good, the heroes and saints so to speak. Those that average people look to and hope they'll do something so they themselves don't have to - which is really fun when you're the target of an abuse cult (think of these "cancellations") and the average people hope that you yourself are the hero to fights back, because they certainly won't do it for you, as they are, as James Lindsay said, cowards.
This brings us to the third group in this, if you want to call it that, eternal battle between good and evil: The average masses. They are legion. This is quantity. The two extreme groups are exceptional people.
The average and especially cowardly masses are being fought over by the evil side the most, as the good guys are rather bad at organizing. Not only do the latter have little interest in doing that, they also don't like to preach, and as a buddhist monk once put it: You can only work with individuals, not change the whole world. - The evil, dark tetradic people, do want to change the whole world though, and that only ever ends bad for the world, and they seek to corrupt every organization - which is another reason the good guys who already don't organize very well, being and preferring to be real individuals (contrary to the solely outwardly fake, fashionistic pseudo-individualism of the dark tetradic types), when do finally organize, that organization is immediately under attack by the evil side of things - and most good types then usually lack the experience, the knowledge and wisdom, of how to spot and deal with that without also turning tyrannical, whilst not falling for the emotionally manipulative tricks of the narcissistic toolbox of their opponents inside and out.
In short, it is neither the good nor the evil people that decide the fate of the world - especially the latter will always exist, monsters will always exist and we know what makes them (some are simply biological anomalies) - It is instead the cowardly masses, the average people, who every single day decide for which side to act. If they don't support their heroes, or mature enough to become heroes themselves, and instead succumb to their fear of the monsters and out of that rather support them, then it all only goes one way. At best, their fear will paralyze them and flee and thus leave the field for the bad guys to take over. They desert, and thus create the desert.
In drastic terms: The heroes and monsters don't have a decision, they are the way they are; they have developed into that.
It is the cowards who decide who wins. The undeveloped. For they are legion.
This reminds me of the story of The Green Grocer in Czech.
Help the doubters become rebels. It might not be fear keeping them from rebelling, but not knowing how to rebel effectively.
One life to live
To the silent majority-
SILENCE IS COMPLIANCE!
You can fight for a chance OR
Walk in silence to your own graves!
@Moonshine All that's needed is a disruptive 17%. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Once I feel we are at the tipping point I am going all in on the murders. Who? Every democrat.
@@MoonshineH but we are very well armed.
@@MoonshineH yeah,but you're one of those clowns who keeps shooting yourself or your teammates.
I respect and appreciate James so, so much. That's why it's so disappointing to hear him encourage this kind of gatekeeping against the supposed "fake" rebels he deems as reactionaries. I don't know a single reactionary who could also honestly be called a Fascist who wants to install the next Mussolini or something. It's fine if James thinks that, but he needs to do a real, thorough breakdown of why he thinks their critiques of Liberalism are invalid before summarily dismissing so many potential allies.
At the end of the day, we don't have to agree with people's prescriptions to benefit from their analysis of the problems. Someone like Yarvin, for example, whose prescription I find unworkable on nearly every conceivable level, nonetheless has several valid analysis to contribute. Same with Michael Malice or Auron MacIntyre. In all reality, there are people to our *Left* who fall into that category. Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, or even a Bill Maher type. They don't understand the full extent of the problem, and certainly don't have workable solutions, either. But that doesn't mean they should be dismissed outright as having nothing to contribute. Same with anyone who critiques Liberalism, which seems to be the people James is going after with this gatekeeping.
I'd love to see Boyce or Michael Malice set up some kind of conversation between James and someone like Auron MacIntyre, The Distributist, etc. I really believe James would come around on some of his hostility to their ideas after a conversation like that.
Either way, keep up the good work, James. Disagreements aside, you're one of the hardest workers and most valuable assets we have right now. Keep on keepin' on 🤙
James is very much aware of the facts presented by people to the right of him, but still refuses to accept the reality, since it would completely upset his liberal worldview.
It's because he has absolute faith in the US Bill of Rights. If part of the problem exists in its deviations from previously established British constitutional canon, he will have a hard time seeing that.
Unfortunately Mr. Lindsay seems to be just another leftist ideologue. His solutions will lead to woke.
James Lindsay is back! Instead of trolling religious conservatives and getting a pound of flesh from milk toast Republicans for his own hipster bonafides, he actually has his eyes back on the prize with this podcast!
30 min...perfect length
In the present situation the open aggressivity of the ringleaders is muted.
People who don't want to be involved, Silence is Assent. By doing nothing, your implicit approval has been stated. 28:27 you get what you deserve
OMG! Did you know that the quote, when you discover the "technology" Communism in Civ IV, is:
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint;
when I ask why the poor have no food,
the call me a communist."
-- Dom Helder Camara
Dom Helder Camara! In Civ IV!
Yes, not on topic, but I had to tell someone...
Thus saith Normies to Rebels: "Sit your ass down! You're embarrassing me. I swear I'm a Doubter, not a Striver."
"Speaking of ideology, Political Ponerology explains a phenomenon that had vexed me. How did Communist ideologues manage to convince the masses that they undertook their crimes for “the workers,” or “the people,” or egalitarianism? But even more perplexing, how did the ideologues convince themselves that their crimes were for the good of the common man? Łobaczewski explains that totalitarian ideology operates on two levels; the terms of the original ideology are taken at face value by true believers, while the party insiders substitute secondary meanings for the same terms, and normal people are subjected to gaslighting. Only the cognoscenti, the psychopaths, know and understand the secondary meanings. They recognize that actions purportedly undertaken on behalf of “the workers” translate into the domination of the party and state on behalf of the psychopaths themselves. The truth is the opposite of what the party insiders claim to be the case, and they know it. Political Ponerology thus explains the origin of “doublespeak,” which Orwell portrays so well. Coincidentally, Łobaczewski finished Political Ponerology in 1984."
-- by Michael Rectenwald. From the forward to: "Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism", by Andrew Lobaczewski, 2022 (new edition, www.amazon.co.uk/Political-Ponerology-Science-Psychopathy-Totalitarianism-ebook/dp/B09VZBYS34)
Oh. My. Yes. Let’s Go RR!
I think you just described the rules to the game “mafia”
Thanks for the info, comrade. We gotta fight to get billionaires out of our politics and fix the system so it serves the worker and not the corporations.
"I aim to misbehave."
God help us! I really hope we prevent this revolution 🙏
James saying what I've said so many times with this. The linear explanation is not very good, and benefits "strivers" going back and forth between different rings. People already have an idea of this with the concept of the pendulum, but "it is not merely phenomenon, it is a weapon wielded." Often used to encourage and be happy about the "reaction," and even suggest that it's "not worth it" or "impossible and fruitless" to go at grabbing that weigh being swung around to stop it or at least bear upon it.
It's the similar or outright same triangle, two-dimensional model for authoritarian vs liberty; where the linear model everyone believes represents the opposing of different authorities, and the supposed "center" is still authority compromised or mixed between them, where liberty lies off elsewhere away from those means and against the fundamentals of those means. So any opposition are rebels, and therefore you can equivocate between them arbitrarily regardless of what scope their in and represent them as something else.
I'd say a lot of potential more "reactionaries" tend towards "striver" as they don't have an understanding of those scopes of opposition, and only really care about their general opposition for their demand, rather then other scopes of opposition alongside what they have disagreement with. _Sorta, incapable of small victories, or just incapable of operating in another scope with a believe that that doing so ordains things they disagree with which is not true. Very "all or nothing" and can't save others for their sake alone, against being deceived/exploited. It's very worth it to have real disagreements not being followers/strivers._
Unfortunately, I have little to none influence... a shut-in out in the middle of nowhere. And that nowhere comes in that there is no one to support either in that "bum" manner.
What's most important is to recognise and delineate the distinction between Wokeness, and the Great Awakening.
Which one begets the other, I don't know. It seems though that Wokeness, which is deconstructionist anti-logic, is catalyzing the Great Awakening, which is Critical Thinking grounded in Reason and Reality
I am a rebel. I am a doctor who once went public opposing an unjust law which coerced health workers to arrange the killing of full term babies. I had a support group of doubters but they were discouraged by the leader of a church which owned hospitals, schools and services which received government funding. So doubters can be undermined if their support for the very principles this church stands for results in loss of funding and therefore threatens that church 's place in society.
Moral of the story - check who is demanding the allegiance of the doubters and who has bought the silence of that group. Also never trust a Catholic Archbishop.
Very interesting reveal in your last sentence. My experience in a seminary taught me to stick to your pastor and your church friends and stay far away from chanceries. Seminaries are horse auctions at the service of bishops.
John brown just walked up to people and shot them in the face. Something to think about.
How do we speak up at work? If we work in a woke corporation.
Glad to know I'm a Rebel. I lost my job for standing up against the jab lie.
Ayyyy where my rebels at?
The Patriots.
How to fight a tyrannical movement:
Step 1: guns
Step 2: helicopter rides
How's that going?
@@Abrdoks it hasn't started yet. But when it does, you will know. Especially if you are a commie.
All of these egghead's blathering on about counter programming are just as bad as the commies. When the time comes there will be blood.
You divide rebels into two groups: true rebels and reactionaries. There's actually three groups, but to distinguish them we first have to recognise that it's not a "rebellion" but a counter-revolution. You're not dealing with tyrant king, you're dealing with a revolutionary junta. Now you can recognise the three types of counter-revolutionary. You have the reactionary, you have the contrarian, and you have the revolutionary who has found himself on the outs.
When the pendulum was swinging the other direction, when it wasn't a counter-revolution but a revolution, he was gung ho for guilloting the aristocrats and moving the junta into the palace. Now that the revolution is devouring her own children and the junta is pointed at him, he finds himself hestitantly in bed with the counter-revolutionaries.
He finds himself fighting a war on two fronts because he lacks the humility to admit that the revolution was in error in the first place. He doesn't want to restore the nobility, he rejects the notion of nobility. He does not believe that the problem was that the tyrant king was vicious, he believes that kings cannot be virtuous in the first place. He's wrong, but he doesn't want to return to the peasantry because he lacks the virtue of contentment. Maybe you could say he's a striver with foresight.
When James Lindsey dismissed the ringleaders calling the rebels ringleaders by saying that's only some of them, it's not a true refutation. If the rebels are the authority of dissenters (assumed from the setup) then they are the ringleaders. It's shown in a simple question, when the rebels gain power, what happens next? Whether you have a romantic view or a pessimistic view, the rebels thought leaders become the next ringleaders.
It is exactly this phenomenon that we can see in the cult of woke. They perpetually see themselves as the rebels to authority, even when that authority is aligned to them, and it is because they have this same perspective. There is even a rational, if not realistic, argument that could be mapped Lindsey's hierarchy of people's: "Republicans are the ringleaders, Democrats are the strivers, normies are still normies, there are some skeptical doubters, and we (the woke) are the rebels". Would they ever come to this conclusion? No, but this is to show that Lindsey's paradigm is flawed from only having a narrow perspective rather than a broad understanding of power dynamics.
I promised not to start a revolt, but if someone else starts one, I'm in.
100%.
It's not necessary to start one yourself as there are non-trivial consequences for publicly rebelling. What I do recommend is to improve your theoretical understanding by studying these New Discourses podcasts. The reason is so that you're able to speak to normies about our counter-revolt and speak with authority about the details behind our counter-revolt.
@@FreeSalesTips send a sharp letter to Kim Jn un while you're at it.
Definitely working to wake up and demystify my normie circle.
What to do? If you are a doubter, recruit another doubter and then become 2 rebels together.
The communist program: Have non-communists do the work for the communists.
Obviously?
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As they say, you want to live your life in peace ('I just want to play my video games'), but they won't let you. So, what are you gonna do?
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