It's always a good day when James has a 2 hour talk posted. I don't know of anyone else who pulls back the veil and shows people how the far left operates quite like James does.
@@josephblowseph6123 I've got good news for you, normal liberals are waking up every day. I was a lifelong liberal until I left the left in 2021 (the insanity of 2020 was my wake-up call, the trans issue was the final straw), although I never bought into identity politics though and I found SJW's to be annoying lol. I've seen hundreds of comments from people just like me, a lot of normal liberals are getting turned off by the far left direction. I consider myself to be more socially conservative on 95% of the issues these days, I've always had more conservative values but I got caught up in being a liberal like most young people do.
Even I, being a Canadian up here without a truly circumspect constitution, I would say that the American Constitution is not a failed document, but what failed are all the politicians and bureaucrats who have acted- and are acting by *ignoring* the Constitution !
I've always believed that anyone who desires and seeks public elected office should be disqualified. Public office should not be a vehicle to amass personal wealth and power!!
@@andynicoll8566 Of course political office should not be about that. It's corruption that ruins countries. I don't get the "progressives" either. As far as I know Trump already had his money before running for office. Biden, Obama however used political clout to amass money. At least so I have heard. Just on that alone, since "progressives" have so much contempt for the wealthy I would think they would acknowledge Biden, Obama are worse as far as that goes.
The American Constitution is an amazing document. We are very lucky to have had these brilliant men trying to figure out what to put into law, knowing how corrupt people with any power can become. The younger generations are not being taught "American exceptionalism" in this sense. It's actually many "conservative" younger people that have a good head on their shoulders. At least the ones I come across.
I've been saying ALL of the same things for at least a decade. It's almost like he's plagiarizing my prior social media accounts (no exaggeration), and practically nobody listened to me either. I personally don't find this stuff to be particularly complicated, but most people do, or couldn't care less.
@@2GunRockJust knowing and warning isn't enough. I think the trick is to become a person that the right people listen to and to be in the right position, saying the right things at the right time. It sucks that you need to do many seemingly irrelevant things just to warn people of the way they're going. But that's how it is. People are inside a context and have their own life's narrative. Know their context and weave your narrative in to their life's narrative.
Blubbery/chuubies always do? It's because the panus, the fat deposit on the pelvis, becomes fulsome, and fills out the trousers as thought they contained actual genitalia. It's most obvious in Khaki trousers, so chubs love those. I'm a doctor, so I know about this.
In order to go from children who need their parents to survive, to adults who can take care of themselves, the number of people who are able to see how authoritarian government is a substitute parent that needs to keep you a child, and exactly how they do this (with the help of those who don't want to grow up), has to increase. The pain of being infantilized, along with the ability to see the tyrants that we create from our own fear is what needs to be, and is, being seen by more people on deeper levels. This is necessary if humans are to ever grow up.
@@GlynDwr-d4h Growing up means collaboration rather than infantilization. Contractarianism would be an example of it, but you can read Locke on "consent of the governed" and think about what consent really means. If you want to be a communist, then so long as you are ok with living among other communists and leaving other adults to have a system that they want, there need be no problem. The problem of authoritarianism is trying to force your values down the throats of others. Doing this can never create liberty or justice. Can read Robert Nozick for full coverage of an adult political philosophy, and it is not anarcho-capitalism-for-all... it is simply being mature enough to want to live with those who share your values and let others live according to theirs. For example, states rights could do a good job of this if it was allowed to happen and have highly diverse laws in different states.
@@konberner170 The reason the left has control of key institutions of civil society is because the right ceded the fight for those institutions. They weren't there to fight for academic departments, the media, or anything else because since Reagan and Thatcher they were too busy blubbering about freedom and small government. That's how you got here. There is no escape hatch out of politics or the fight for the power of the state. The solution is to get control of the state and use it to advance your values. The question isn't the size of government, but the content of policy. It's not state or no state, it's what kind of state. Because the right no longer thinks in these terms, the serious question of what values should animate the state remain unanswered. What is in order is the socially conservative state. Until the right understands this, they will continue to lose.
@@Khayyam-vg9fw False. If people indeed share values, then there is no issue. It is only when they already don't that the segregation is needed, and that is not fragmentation, but revealing fragmentation that is already there. You fantasize about forcing your own values on others: just that.
This really makes me think of Douglas Murray debating a guy about immigration. The guy was calling him Charles, and repeatedly interrupting him. Then complaining about being interrupted himself. It was infuriating and in this light it looks a lot more intentional than I had previously thought.
Hey James and the audience here. Have you noticed this very tactic in immense scale past weekend? It is this very dynamic, and it is bloody and disgusting. And we are all very blind to what happened.
James has framed the dilemmas that we are facing with exquisite precision. I also tend to agree with his criticisms of Christian nationalism. Prophecy teaches us that we will not have a christian world until Christ literally comes back in bodily form.
I've been listening to James Lindsay for a few years now & I find his work invaluable education to understand what's going on. His book 'Race Marxism' is very informative too. It's all very complex to get your head round, but I think it was Thomas Sowell who said, it takes more effort to debunk a lie than to create one. It's so exhausting trying to understand this stuff, but it's vital to know your enemy as James often talks about.
It is tough to wrap one's head around. Different angles, layers to all this stuff. For those who don't have the patience for long talks, I recommend an article titled, "No Truce With The Left", by Daniel Greenfield.
Great talk Dr. James Lindsay, thank you so much for all of your effort to save the West, I know that you had to overcome a lot of hardship for that. I really appreciate all that which I've learned from you. Sending lots of love from Israel. God bless you.
So glad to see that there are church's who are allowing James (ironically biblical name) to go and teach to their congregations of the 100% anti-christian that is gaining very much ground in this country
I used to call this “Don’t Be the Second Person” with my kids. Someone is doing something to you, you make a lot of noise retaliating and who gets in trouble? You. Don’t be the 2nd Person.
@@serpentines6356indeed. But one should consider the consequences and if the person provoking you is doing so deliberately, betting that you would react. Don't put up with BS but don't pick it up with your bare hands and fling it back in retaliation. You'd be accurately labeled a 'bs slinger whose hands stinks of bs'. . There are ways of dealing with BS and there are ways of dealing the BS. Observe the situation, consider the words used and what's implied, then calmly dissect the BS with a tool to see what the bulls have been eating.
Listening to this a second time. It’s not an easy listen but I believe it’s a very important one. We have to start challenging the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. As we believe we have it all figured out, that’s when we need to ask ourselves “what if I’m wrong? What am I missing?” Thank you Dr James Lyndsay for always giving me more to think about.
I just started reading The Brothers Karamazov and realized that Dostoyevsky was 200 years ahead of the curve on these issues. Any who sees this comment, READ THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV.
It is his masterpiece, though another of his books that is even more relevant and absolutely horrifying is his book Demons (sometimes translated as The Possessed). His foresight and prescience is astonishing.
@@BriteRory I just recently finished Demons, and yes, it is also a masterpiece. Notes From Underground is another devastating account of human psychology... frankly, people should just read everything Dostoevsky ever wrote.
@@lancewalker2595 I certainly agree with that! The only major works of his commonly available in English that I haven't read are the Gambler, Poor Folk, and the Adolescent. Demons and Brothers Karamazov were the most eye opening when I read them in my early twenties. Another author from roughly the same period who also wrote 'psychological' literature, whom I discovered around the same time I first encountered Dostoevsky, is the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and in particular his novel Sult (translated as Hunger).
@@BriteRory Never heard of that writer, I will definitely check it out. I would consider Goethe in the same rarified category as Dostoyevsky. Thanks for the recommendation, I’m always on the look out for writers I’ve never heard of.
I have read Lysander Spooner; he was a great abolitionist. I’m a Voluntaryist (if you’re not familiar, you can think of it as being a free market anarchist, or ideologically consistent libertarian). I don’t see how a government as large as ours can govern as many people as it does without becoming tyrannical over time. Government really is the One Ring; the more powerful the more corrupting. I think the best solution is National divorce. That way the leftists can have their hellholes, and the people who respect liberty more can build something much better than they are current;y allowed to. Either way, smaller governments can be more responsive to the will of their populations they govern. Many of our states are larger than most European countries, and at least somewhat in their same ballpark population wise. I would have to move since I live in commiefornia, but I think it would be the best solution. What I am pushing is the opposite of centralization. I am a Christian, but not a Christian nationalist by any stretch
I've been waiting for this one . Thank you for what you're doing. Although it may be too late here in the UK, the tentacles of klaus and friends have taken too much power already, I fear.
In combination with the lighting, James shifting his weight from one leg to the other it looks like a shadowplay of his Willy flicking his tongue. Excellent talk, but can't unsee it 😂
My first reaction was, "Christian Nationalists invading the church? Nah!" But then I remember that Lindsay introduced me to, basically, every insidious movement that is under way today. So, I guess we are going to see Christian Nationalists create trouble everywhere.
Unfortunately Lindsay's definition of Christian Nationalists are both authoritarian big-statist and decentralized small communities. Well which is it, James? You can't have it both ways. I generally agree with James Lindsay except for his argument against Christian Nationalism. I was with him when he criticized the totalitarian social credit Christian nation, but he lost me when he also criticized the Lysander Spooner balkanization into a thousand Christian Lichtensteins. If you read the Declaration of Independence, it supports self-determination instead of a strong Union.
The separation of church and state never meant to keep religion out of public and government life. When it was written religion was the driving factor in peoples lives and day to day decisions, separating your religion from your duties was an impossible and confusing concept. It simply meant: no official institution of a religion would have power over the government. They couldn’t make laws or command the president to do something.
The thing that has to be understood about Christianity is I was never meant to be an earthly Kingdom. Oftentimes Christians in America assume that the polity of America is entirely Christian. America is an earthly Kingdom.
Just thinking this. This is not a war for America, it is a war for your soul. America is going the same direction as all nations, flesh, etc. Follow Christ
I almost want to call this segment in Dr Lindsay’s broad and comprehensive work the “Rules for Conservative Christians”. Brilliant insight into the dialectic warfare and how to spot and not fall for it.
Yup, but he recognizes one of the strongest weapons against this crap is religious people sticking together and knowing it’s coming. I wonder if he’d talk to mosques or temples?
As an orthodox christian myself (as in Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox church, Rumanian Orthodox church etc) I had to do some mental gymnastics every time he mentioned orthodox christians 😊 as the meaning is different in America.
The "orthodox" part is also in reference to the group this author James is talking about. So we don't know which orthodoxy that author is talking about. And orthodox churches don't care about the opinion of some random American self-proclaimed Christian. They're orthodox because they don't care about "new wisdom" like that.
Hey James! I would love a book that gathers together all of your material on the roots of Marxism in Gnosticism and hermeticism, the ins and outs of the dialectic, American Maoism, this political warfare stuff, and your thoughts on how to win. All your lectures are great. I just would love for the material to be collated into one book/source to turn to.
@@andrewbfrost7021 He's making a comprehensive guide and has spoken about it several times. In the meantime, check out his other books, Cynical Theories, The Marxification of Education, Race Marxism, and Counter Wokecraft
I've got good news for you, normal liberals are waking up every day. I was a lifelong liberal until I left the left in 2021 (the insanity of 2020 was my wake-up call, the trans issue was the final straw), although I never bought into identity politics though and I found SJW's to be annoying lol. I've seen hundreds of comments from people just like me, a lot of normal liberals are getting turned off by the far left direction. I consider myself to be more socially conservative on 95% of the issues these days, I've always had more conservative values but I got caught up in being a liberal like most young people do.
I was never really "lefty", but do consider myself more "liberal". Was never on board with the BLM, SJW, "trans agenda" stuff. It was kinda' creepy, like people just jumping on the current PC bandwagon. I always hated PC garbage. Everyone in "my circle" jumped on, hated Trump with a passion, and I just didn't. It was a feeling of "politically homeless", for sure, and couldn't really talk much about it all. I really wanted to barf when one of my friends repeated, "the protests were mostly peaceful". I knew our whole society, and the media were promoting this criminality as no big deal. All this vandalism, and crime now, was so predictable.
@@serpentines6356 completely agree, well said my friend. You are definitely not alone, I see comments from people just like you and me all the time! I wish I had someone like James L. to explain the extreme ideologies controlling the modern left, I would've left the left sooner if I did.
About an hour in and a great analogy for what James is talking about is Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. I'm sure there's even a line in the film like: "It's better if you join." Scary stuff!
I've been following an unusual group through this journey that includes James. I wish I shared James's optimism. I am actually beyond demoralized. I've reached something like nihilism. I have had an "online friend" for over 15 years, Aaron Clarey who wrote a book called "Enjoy the Decline", where he agues the only rational thing to do for your own sanity is to look out for yourself and enjoy life as free from the system as you can be until it collapses. I am looking forward to James's next talk on what we can do otherwise.
I'm just gonna repost my AI-generated rant, so people can see it: To anyone who thinks dialectics are even comparable to logic or mathematic: No, they are just a rhetorical tool. You can apply dialectic to connect any concept A=>C, by adding the right "opposite" concept B. Let's take your example: "Left has no meaning without right." This is a free association that could be imagining hands or a crossing of a road. With the same validity, you could say: "Right has no meaning without up." This could be validated through the free association of a stock market graph. Why is black the opposite of white? The opposite of white could also be a rainbow of light or the green of a chalkboard or the diversity of human skin colors or the spectrum of a star shining in black space. The "opposite" ALWAYS depends on your point of view. I can always find an interpretation that shows your opinion as extreme and my opinion as a reasonable middle ground. Let's say you say the nicest number is 7. If I think the nicest number is 14, I will say dialectically: "Technically, the opposite of 7 is 21. We both agree that 21 is a bit too extreme though. In that case, a logical middle ground is the number 14, so we can agree on that as a compromise, right? RIGHT?" (I am strategically moving away from my faked extreme position, so I reciprocally expect you to move away from your real position. So what is essentially your submission to me will be sold as a compromise in the "middle".) Or to show you a real world example: You think trends people should be able to exist in peace without bothering others. I think trends people should be able to dominate womens' sports. Then I say dialectically: "Technically, the opposite of letting them live in peace is destruction of all people who identify as trends. We both agree that that is a bit too extreme though. In that case, a logical middle ground between our positions would be letting them live in peace, but also allowing them to bother others as they please." "If you don't agree with this 'compromise', then you are a bigot who obviously holds the extreme position and wants to commit geno-cider." The result of dialectic is always a free association that LOOKS like a logical conclusion. It is a bid for dominance that LOOKS like a compromise. (That's also an important application of the slippery slope pattern.) It is a rhetorical tool that camouflages arbitrariness as logic. Therefore it is inherently deceptive and evil. Dialectics users are mostly charismatic manipulators and wannabe gurus.
James, I love the content. Also, we know that it's difficult while traveling to get the right food. When you can, hit the gym. Start getting more protein and watching the processed/packaged factory food-like substances. But still, the lectures are great and thank you for posting them.
EVERYONE needs to read the war in the vendee during the french revolution. Incredible perspective and i hope james will do an episode on it. Napoleon even said they could of stopped the revolution with the momentum they had. Its very very interesting. And seems very very similar.
27:11 This is eye opening, just as Stop Oil movement in Europe. They blockl roads and want to provoke ordiniary people to attack them and than they make video about it....
I hope to learn more about the weaponised 'nullification' you mentioned in your lecture. I have begun to notice how my government works with this tool. Heartbreaking.
Important thing in „provocation - reaction” tactic is obviously that leftists control media and media control public discourse. Anti-leftists live in a cage, powerless (enslaved and controlled), so its difficult to react effectively. One of the goals is obviously to destroy media control over public discourse (which implies creating new media or take over leftists media). Its quite horrible realization, but nowadays “free societies” are deeply controlled (divided in special, simplistic manner), manipulated, pacified by elites (ruling class). Ruling class is desperately trying to keep their positions - in this field differences from totalitarian state are cosmetic. On the other hand it has always been like that - struggle between ordinary people and elites (ruling class), lately its becoming more and more obvious. And leftists ruling class is the worst of the worst.
But what to do with it, without being pulled into Gramscian politicization of the mundane and non-political pursuits; another target of action for progressives.
I disagree on 1 point. Gay "civil rights" is a slippery slope. It was founded on the idea that being gay isn't a choice. Once you declare behavior to be predetermined by nature you have reached the abolition of free will and all morality. That is, in fact, the slope.
I just wonder, say we manage to win and return to a system where individual liberty is protected, where property rights are protected, free up markets and all that good stuff. How do we actually protect a system like that against leftists and how do we stop them from taking over again?
For one, we have to defend the truth and avoid making an idol out of voting. The formal political system we know so well presupposes a well-developed body of law that cannot come about in conditions where everything is subject to a vote.
@@BigMichael78 I personally consider that idea that minimising the power that the state has, so that there isn't a whole lot of power that it can abuse to begin with. The problem is that as we see, the constitution is just a piece of paper and it hasn't done anything to keep the government in check, as leftists will just stamp on everyone's rights without regard for the constitution.
Lindsay really needs to delineate between Wolf's version of orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodox. The possible confusion caused by his carelessness can lead to big problems for those of us who are Eastern Orthodox.
Makes me nervous about how things are looking for Biden’s fall (media turning) and Trump “rebirth”. Is our reaction their over arching spring board “forward”?
My main takeaway is that what we commonly understand as America was founded on common beliefs and principles of individual rights. Woke and Christian Nationalism are propgated by common enemy/grievances and abhors individual rights
Unless James has a winning strategy, I'm with Andrew Torba and Hans-Herman Hoppe. The trouble with James Lindsay is that he says what not to do, and doesn't have a simple to explain plan of how to defeat the left.
Another way to think about their dialectical vortex is to visualize it as a massively flushing toilet. There's a lot of swirling and activity and it usually smells a lot like shit.
I got sucked into the Christian nationalist space for a while. I still don't entirely disagree with it now, but ive always found the crowd to be very uncomfortable. Jame Lindsay
Some branches of Amish dont believe in self defence.ect.., even though Jesus said buy a sword, and also Peter put away your sword... another quote i forget who by is "all it takes for evil men to have their way is for good men to do nothing."
Great timing today! Christian nationalist but not a Christian, eh. . . looking forward to hearing this and eating my lunch. Anyway, I'm a Christian who believes nationalism is idolatrous.
It's not idolatry. It's only idolatry if you elevate your Americaness over your christianess like it do. But I'm not a Christian I just like Christian values and the bibles got some good ideas in it
Nationalism has been the norm for Christianity for millennia. Liberalism is idolatrous, it's worship of freedom and liberty. Individual freedom is not a value that any Christians until recently ever believed. All church fathers who wrote about government were pro Monarchy. None of the people who put the bible together believed in liberal values.
I don't know whether Nationalism is idolatrous or not. To me having a mutual beneficial relationship with the nation you inhabit is not only good, it's also dignified
It's always a good day when James has a 2 hour talk posted. I don't know of anyone else who pulls back the veil and shows people how the far left operates quite like James does.
Finally we get to see it. He is such a dynamic speaker.
TIKhistory and Karlyn Borysenko do a pretty good job too.
@@josephblowseph6123 I've got good news for you, normal liberals are waking up every day. I was a lifelong liberal until I left the left in 2021 (the insanity of 2020 was my wake-up call, the trans issue was the final straw), although I never bought into identity politics though and I found SJW's to be annoying lol.
I've seen hundreds of comments from people just like me, a lot of normal liberals are getting turned off by the far left direction.
I consider myself to be more socially conservative on 95% of the issues these days, I've always had more conservative values but I got caught up in being a liberal like most young people do.
@@TearThatRedFlagDown Agreed!
@@TearThatRedFlagDown TIKhistory is awesome.
Even I, being a Canadian up here without a truly circumspect constitution, I would say that the American Constitution is not a failed document, but what failed are all the politicians and bureaucrats who have acted- and are acting by *ignoring* the Constitution !
Precisely correct!
I've always believed that anyone who desires and seeks public elected office should be disqualified. Public office should not be a vehicle to amass personal wealth and power!!
@@andynicoll8566 Of course political office should not be about that. It's corruption that ruins countries.
I don't get the "progressives" either. As far as I know Trump already had his money before running for office. Biden, Obama however used political clout to amass money. At least so I have heard. Just on that alone, since "progressives" have so much contempt for the wealthy I would think they would acknowledge Biden, Obama are worse as far as that goes.
The American Constitution is an amazing document. We are very lucky to have had these brilliant men trying to figure out what to put into law, knowing how corrupt people with any power can become.
The younger generations are not being taught "American exceptionalism" in this sense.
It's actually many "conservative" younger people that have a good head on their shoulders. At least the ones I come across.
What can we do?
a true hero of our time
Watching from adelaide Australia ….. I’m a grand mother who has woken up ….. thank you James
Love the comments 🕊
As my Mom always told us, people can and will control you through your emotions.
Your mom's intelligent❤🎉
Based mom. 🐿
You have a wise mother. Most mothers these days are the controlled ones.
Also your sex life. This means the righteous are controlled through their children. Think: Phonecian Child Sacrifice
It's a damn shame more people aren't listening to this man
I've been saying ALL of the same things for at least a decade. It's almost like he's plagiarizing my prior social media accounts (no exaggeration), and practically nobody listened to me either. I personally don't find this stuff to be particularly complicated, but most people do, or couldn't care less.
@@2GunRockJust knowing and warning isn't enough. I think the trick is to become a person that the right people listen to and to be in the right position, saying the right things at the right time.
It sucks that you need to do many seemingly irrelevant things just to warn people of the way they're going. But that's how it is. People are inside a context and have their own life's narrative. Know their context and weave your narrative in to their life's narrative.
We can help and tell friends what is happening under the sheep's clothing
It started as a joke, but I can’t unsee it now. Dr. Lindsay has an immaculate package that puts all others to shame.
LMAO
The West Virginia panhandle energy is strong with James today.
Damn you, I wouldnt have noticed if I hadnt read this comment LOL
Saw it before I read this.
Blubbery/chuubies always do? It's because the panus, the fat deposit on the pelvis, becomes fulsome, and fills out the trousers as thought they contained actual genitalia. It's most obvious in Khaki trousers, so chubs love those. I'm a doctor, so I know about this.
In order to go from children who need their parents to survive, to adults who can take care of themselves, the number of people who are able to see how authoritarian government is a substitute parent that needs to keep you a child, and exactly how they do this (with the help of those who don't want to grow up), has to increase. The pain of being infantilized, along with the ability to see the tyrants that we create from our own fear is what needs to be, and is, being seen by more people on deeper levels. This is necessary if humans are to ever grow up.
Growing up means anarcho capitalism? lol
@@GlynDwr-d4h Growing up means collaboration rather than infantilization. Contractarianism would be an example of it, but you can read Locke on "consent of the governed" and think about what consent really means. If you want to be a communist, then so long as you are ok with living among other communists and leaving other adults to have a system that they want, there need be no problem. The problem of authoritarianism is trying to force your values down the throats of others. Doing this can never create liberty or justice. Can read Robert Nozick for full coverage of an adult political philosophy, and it is not anarcho-capitalism-for-all... it is simply being mature enough to want to live with those who share your values and let others live according to theirs. For example, states rights could do a good job of this if it was allowed to happen and have highly diverse laws in different states.
@@konberner170 The reason the left has control of key institutions of civil society is because the right ceded the fight for those institutions. They weren't there to fight for academic departments, the media, or anything else because since Reagan and Thatcher they were too busy blubbering about freedom and small government.
That's how you got here. There is no escape hatch out of politics or the fight for the power of the state. The solution is to get control of the state and use it to advance your values. The question isn't the size of government, but the content of policy. It's not state or no state, it's what kind of state. Because the right no longer thinks in these terms, the serious question of what values should animate the state remain unanswered. What is in order is the socially conservative state. Until the right understands this, they will continue to lose.
@@konberner170 Very nice in theory, but it is a recipe for fragmentation and the complete privatisation of morality.
@@Khayyam-vg9fw False. If people indeed share values, then there is no issue. It is only when they already don't that the segregation is needed, and that is not fragmentation, but revealing fragmentation that is already there. You fantasize about forcing your own values on others: just that.
The most concise and easy to understand talks on the current state of the United States and the World. Thanks James.
This really makes me think of Douglas Murray debating a guy about immigration. The guy was calling him Charles, and repeatedly interrupting him. Then complaining about being interrupted himself. It was infuriating and in this light it looks a lot more intentional than I had previously thought.
This may be Dr. Lindsay’s most important lecture to date. Thank you 🙏🏾🇺🇸❤️
After a 2h James talk like this I need a few days off for my brain to process it all. Thank You James, take care! ❤
Ohhh! I do too. I've gone back and re-watched some of his presentations. This is one of those.
LOL. Never went to college, I bet.
Hey James and the audience here.
Have you noticed this very tactic in immense scale past weekend?
It is this very dynamic, and it is bloody and disgusting. And we are all very blind to what happened.
James has framed the dilemmas that we are facing with exquisite precision. I also tend to agree with his criticisms of Christian nationalism. Prophecy teaches us that we will not have a christian world until Christ literally comes back in bodily form.
I've been listening to James Lindsay for a few years now & I find his work invaluable education to understand what's going on. His book 'Race Marxism' is very informative too. It's all very complex to get your head round, but I think it was Thomas Sowell who said, it takes more effort to debunk a lie than to create one. It's so exhausting trying to understand this stuff, but it's vital to know your enemy as James often talks about.
It is tough to wrap one's head around. Different angles, layers to all this stuff.
For those who don't have the patience for long talks, I recommend an article titled, "No Truce With The Left", by Daniel Greenfield.
Great talk Dr. James Lindsay, thank you so much for all of your effort to save the West, I know that you had to overcome a lot of hardship for that. I really appreciate all that which I've learned from you. Sending lots of love from Israel. God bless you.
God bless you, Dr. Lindsay ❤
The driving force of Jan 6 was the United States Government.
they have the receipts
True and the stupidity of the crowd. They fell into it hook, line and sinker.
So glad to see that there are church's who are allowing James (ironically biblical name) to go and teach to their congregations of the 100% anti-christian that is gaining very much ground in this country
Brilliant! Thank you. Can't wait for the next lecture.
Thank you. You're a champ. You are the only voice I know of that is strategically pointing things out.
I used to call this “Don’t Be the Second Person” with my kids. Someone is doing something to you, you make a lot of noise retaliating and who gets in trouble? You. Don’t be the 2nd Person.
Yeah, but one shouldn't put up with bs either.
@@serpentines6356indeed.
But one should consider the consequences and if the person provoking you is doing so deliberately, betting that you would react.
Don't put up with BS but don't pick it up with your bare hands and fling it back in retaliation.
You'd be accurately labeled a 'bs slinger whose hands stinks of bs'.
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There are ways of dealing with BS and there are ways of dealing the BS.
Observe the situation, consider the words used and what's implied, then calmly dissect the BS with a tool to see what the bulls have been eating.
A wise talk.
I could have listened to this for another 2 hours
Well, I am a Catholic Christian and a nationalist because I love Jesus and America. WUTANG!❤🙌🏽🙏🏾
Listening to this a second time. It’s not an easy listen but I believe it’s a very important one. We have to start challenging the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. As we believe we have it all figured out, that’s when we need to ask ourselves “what if I’m wrong? What am I missing?” Thank you Dr James Lyndsay for always giving me more to think about.
I just started reading The Brothers Karamazov and realized that Dostoyevsky was 200 years ahead of the curve on these issues. Any who sees this comment, READ THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV.
Thank you for reminding me to read it!
It is his masterpiece, though another of his books that is even more relevant and absolutely horrifying is his book Demons (sometimes translated as The Possessed). His foresight and prescience is astonishing.
@@BriteRory I just recently finished Demons, and yes, it is also a masterpiece. Notes From Underground is another devastating account of human psychology... frankly, people should just read everything Dostoevsky ever wrote.
@@lancewalker2595 I certainly agree with that! The only major works of his commonly available in English that I haven't read are the Gambler, Poor Folk, and the Adolescent. Demons and Brothers Karamazov were the most eye opening when I read them in my early twenties. Another author from roughly the same period who also wrote 'psychological' literature, whom I discovered around the same time I first encountered Dostoevsky, is the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and in particular his novel Sult (translated as Hunger).
@@BriteRory Never heard of that writer, I will definitely check it out. I would consider Goethe in the same rarified category as Dostoyevsky. Thanks for the recommendation, I’m always on the look out for writers I’ve never heard of.
I have read Lysander Spooner; he was a great abolitionist. I’m a Voluntaryist (if you’re not familiar, you can think of it as being a free market anarchist, or ideologically consistent libertarian). I don’t see how a government as large as ours can govern as many people as it does without becoming tyrannical over time. Government really is the One Ring; the more powerful the more corrupting. I think the best solution is National divorce. That way the leftists can have their hellholes, and the people who respect liberty more can build something much better than they are current;y allowed to. Either way, smaller governments can be more responsive to the will of their populations they govern. Many of our states are larger than most European countries, and at least somewhat in their same ballpark population wise. I would have to move since I live in commiefornia, but I think it would be the best solution. What I am pushing is the opposite of centralization. I am a Christian, but not a Christian nationalist by any stretch
I always learn something listening to your discourses , James Lindsay
I've been waiting for this one . Thank you for what you're doing. Although it may be too late here in the UK, the tentacles of klaus and friends have taken too much power already, I fear.
Hopefully we can create a parallel society some day. ❤
@@Parrotgirl-tattooLet's hope so 🙏.
God wins
@@davidlythgoe4079 did Klaus open your borders?
@@WhiteWolf126 it's a bit more complex than that .
when we getting that part 3
Excellent talk. Brilliant work.
Thanks James, you are greatly needed to bring understanding
In combination with the lighting, James shifting his weight from one leg to the other it looks like a shadowplay of his Willy flicking his tongue. Excellent talk, but can't unsee it 😂
Thank you I need understanding and WISDOM
Keep it up James
The USA has the best constitution in the world. Keep it just the way it is.
Thank you James Lindsay. Long Live James Lindsay!
My first reaction was, "Christian Nationalists invading the church? Nah!" But then I remember that Lindsay introduced me to, basically, every insidious movement that is under way today. So, I guess we are going to see Christian Nationalists create trouble everywhere.
same as the communists. utopian movement wanting to enslave everybody into their movement
Unfortunately Lindsay's definition of Christian Nationalists are both authoritarian big-statist and decentralized small communities. Well which is it, James? You can't have it both ways. I generally agree with James Lindsay except for his argument against Christian Nationalism. I was with him when he criticized the totalitarian social credit Christian nation, but he lost me when he also criticized the Lysander Spooner balkanization into a thousand Christian Lichtensteins. If you read the Declaration of Independence, it supports self-determination instead of a strong Union.
The separation of church and state never meant to keep religion out of public and government life. When it was written religion was the driving factor in peoples lives and day to day decisions, separating your religion from your duties was an impossible and confusing concept.
It simply meant: no official institution of a religion would have power over the government. They couldn’t make laws or command the president to do something.
That's how I always understood it.
Yep.
The thing that has to be understood about Christianity is I was never meant to be an earthly Kingdom. Oftentimes Christians in America assume that the polity of America is entirely Christian. America is an earthly Kingdom.
Just thinking this. This is not a war for America, it is a war for your soul. America is going the same direction as all nations, flesh, etc. Follow Christ
You sir, are a legend. Well said.
I almost want to call this segment in Dr Lindsay’s broad and comprehensive work the “Rules for Conservative Christians”. Brilliant insight into the dialectic warfare and how to spot and not fall for it.
Isn’t he an atheist?
Yup, but he recognizes one of the strongest weapons against this crap is religious people sticking together and knowing it’s coming.
I wonder if he’d talk to mosques or temples?
As an orthodox christian myself (as in Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox church, Rumanian Orthodox church etc) I had to do some mental gymnastics every time he mentioned orthodox christians 😊 as the meaning is different in America.
The "orthodox" part is also in reference to the group this author James is talking about. So we don't know which orthodoxy that author is talking about. And orthodox churches don't care about the opinion of some random American self-proclaimed Christian. They're orthodox because they don't care about "new wisdom" like that.
Hey James! I would love a book that gathers together all of your material on the roots of Marxism in Gnosticism and hermeticism, the ins and outs of the dialectic, American Maoism, this political warfare stuff, and your thoughts on how to win. All your lectures are great. I just would love for the material to be collated into one book/source to turn to.
He is working on it
@@JayEmElle8 He is?! Sweet!
@@andrewbfrost7021 He's making a comprehensive guide and has spoken about it several times. In the meantime, check out his other books, Cynical Theories, The Marxification of Education, Race Marxism, and Counter Wokecraft
@@JayEmElle8 I have 3 of those 4 books. Not sure how I missed him talking about the new book, but I’m glad he’s working on it! Thanks
I've got good news for you, normal liberals are waking up every day. I was a lifelong liberal until I left the left in 2021 (the insanity of 2020 was my wake-up call, the trans issue was the final straw), although I never bought into identity politics though and I found SJW's to be annoying lol.
I've seen hundreds of comments from people just like me, a lot of normal liberals are getting turned off by the far left direction.
I consider myself to be more socially conservative on 95% of the issues these days, I've always had more conservative values but I got caught up in being a liberal like most young people do.
I was never really "lefty", but do consider myself more "liberal".
Was never on board with the BLM, SJW, "trans agenda" stuff. It was kinda' creepy, like people just jumping on the current PC bandwagon.
I always hated PC garbage.
Everyone in "my circle" jumped on, hated Trump with a passion, and I just didn't. It was a feeling of "politically homeless", for sure, and couldn't really talk much about it all.
I really wanted to barf when one of my friends repeated, "the protests were mostly peaceful".
I knew our whole society, and the media were promoting this criminality as no big deal.
All this vandalism, and crime now, was so predictable.
@@serpentines6356 completely agree, well said my friend. You are definitely not alone, I see comments from people just like you and me all the time! I wish I had someone like James L. to explain the extreme ideologies controlling the modern left, I would've left the left sooner if I did.
@@BigHomieSteveTheMetalHead do u still believe in taxation?
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I agree that the anti-white rhetoric is just bad too.
About an hour in and a great analogy for what James is talking about is Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. I'm sure there's even a line in the film like: "It's better if you join." Scary stuff!
The movie, "They Live" is pretty good too.
@@serpentines6356 Good shout.
I've been following an unusual group through this journey that includes James. I wish I shared James's optimism. I am actually beyond demoralized. I've reached something like nihilism. I have had an "online friend" for over 15 years, Aaron Clarey who wrote a book called "Enjoy the Decline", where he agues the only rational thing to do for your own sanity is to look out for yourself and enjoy life as free from the system as you can be until it collapses. I am looking forward to James's next talk on what we can do otherwise.
It's Christ or chaos.
@@Yesica1993always has been
As an older friend of mine, would say, there will always be the people with a lot of money. It's the rest of us that need to take care of each other.
So James. You have explained the problems and evil tactics. What are people to do? What will you do to remedy this?
I'm just gonna repost my AI-generated rant, so people can see it:
To anyone who thinks dialectics are even comparable to logic or mathematic: No, they are just a rhetorical tool.
You can apply dialectic to connect any concept A=>C, by adding the right "opposite" concept B.
Let's take your example:
"Left has no meaning without right."
This is a free association that could be imagining hands or a crossing of a road.
With the same validity, you could say:
"Right has no meaning without up."
This could be validated through the free association of a stock market graph.
Why is black the opposite of white?
The opposite of white could also be a rainbow of light or the green of a chalkboard or the diversity of human skin colors or the spectrum of a star shining in black space.
The "opposite" ALWAYS depends on your point of view. I can always find an interpretation that shows your opinion as extreme and my opinion as a reasonable middle ground.
Let's say you say the nicest number is 7.
If I think the nicest number is 14, I will say dialectically:
"Technically, the opposite of 7 is 21. We both agree that 21 is a bit too extreme though. In that case, a logical middle ground is the number 14, so we can agree on that as a compromise, right? RIGHT?"
(I am strategically moving away from my faked extreme position, so I reciprocally expect you to move away from your real position. So what is essentially your submission to me will be sold as a compromise in the "middle".)
Or to show you a real world example:
You think trends people should be able to exist in peace without bothering others.
I think trends people should be able to dominate womens' sports.
Then I say dialectically:
"Technically, the opposite of letting them live in peace is destruction of all people who identify as trends. We both agree that that is a bit too extreme though. In that case, a logical middle ground between our positions would be letting them live in peace, but also allowing them to bother others as they please."
"If you don't agree with this 'compromise', then you are a bigot who obviously holds the extreme position and wants to commit geno-cider."
The result of dialectic is always a free association that LOOKS like a logical conclusion.
It is a bid for dominance that LOOKS like a compromise.
(That's also an important application of the slippery slope pattern.)
It is a rhetorical tool that camouflages arbitrariness as logic.
Therefore it is inherently deceptive and evil.
Dialectics users are mostly charismatic manipulators and wannabe gurus.
This was great! Thanks!
"It's like Obama care for churches! You can keep your pastor if you like!" 🤣
Where can I find the 3rd part of this series?
James, I love the content. Also, we know that it's difficult while traveling to get the right food. When you can, hit the gym. Start getting more protein and watching the processed/packaged factory food-like substances. But still, the lectures are great and thank you for posting them.
Very hard while travelling for sure
Please tell me where I can find Session 3 of 3. Thank you in advance.
Christian Nationalists
“It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this Ring”
Christian nationalism isnt white nationalism... it's theocracy.
EVERYONE needs to read the war in the vendee during the french revolution. Incredible perspective and i hope james will do an episode on it. Napoleon even said they could of stopped the revolution with the momentum they had. Its very very interesting. And seems very very similar.
"Beautiful Trouble", worth checking out.
"I am the problem."
"He who reforms himself, reforms others."
9:46 nice. I like how you dodged someone getting a soundbite of you saying the words lmfao.
The Great Reset = The Great Leap Backwards!
I used to receive the Gab emails as well and opted out. It was to much for me. That kind of Theocracy is not going to end well.
Brilliant
Thx James.
Lindsay is on fire lately. How long before the sexual assault allegations show up?
Probably not long; it’s election season.
antisemitism allegations may be lower hanging fruit than assult. I almost hope it happens that way he can finally talk openly about historical events.
27:11 This is eye opening, just as Stop Oil movement in Europe. They blockl roads and want to provoke ordiniary people to attack them and than they make video about it....
Thanks James.
“We tortured some folks,” Obama said during a White House news conference Friday.
I hope to learn more about the weaponised 'nullification' you mentioned in your lecture. I have begun to notice how my government works with this tool. Heartbreaking.
Important thing in „provocation - reaction” tactic is obviously that leftists control media and media control public discourse. Anti-leftists live in a cage, powerless (enslaved and controlled), so its difficult to react effectively. One of the goals is obviously to destroy media control over public discourse (which implies creating new media or take over leftists media).
Its quite horrible realization, but nowadays “free societies” are deeply controlled (divided in special, simplistic manner), manipulated, pacified by elites (ruling class). Ruling class is desperately trying to keep their positions - in this field differences from totalitarian state are cosmetic. On the other hand it has always been like that - struggle between ordinary people and elites (ruling class), lately its becoming more and more obvious. And leftists ruling class is the worst of the worst.
I am not a Christian
But I loved this lecture
Maybe you are what you aren't. Who knows 😄
As far as I know James Lindsey isn't a christian either.
@@BeccainHawaii correct. But he's not a naive atheist anymore either
James Lindsay is an atheist/agnostic sooo yeah we’re in good company
@Wingedmagician agnostic sure. Definitely no longer considers himself an atheist
Were there a single principle that could be made to be understood by conservatives, this would be it.
But what to do with it, without being pulled into Gramscian politicization of the mundane and non-political pursuits; another target of action for progressives.
So how do we stop this?
What exactly should we do then?
Listen to James, feel dumb, which is fine. ✌️
Thank you!!!!!!
Damn you've had me blue-brained for two weeks ;)
sounds lexically sus
James be on the beam!
Are the other lectures / talks mentioned in this video available online?
I disagree on 1 point. Gay "civil rights" is a slippery slope. It was founded on the idea that being gay isn't a choice. Once you declare behavior to be predetermined by nature you have reached the abolition of free will and all morality. That is, in fact, the slope.
I just wonder, say we manage to win and return to a system where individual liberty is protected, where property rights are protected, free up markets and all that good stuff.
How do we actually protect a system like that against leftists and how do we stop them from taking over again?
For one, we have to defend the truth and avoid making an idol out of voting. The formal political system we know so well presupposes a well-developed body of law that cannot come about in conditions where everything is subject to a vote.
@@BigMichael78 I personally consider that idea that minimising the power that the state has, so that there isn't a whole lot of power that it can abuse to begin with.
The problem is that as we see, the constitution is just a piece of paper and it hasn't done anything to keep the government in check, as leftists will just stamp on everyone's rights without regard for the constitution.
Lindsay really needs to delineate between Wolf's version of orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodox. The possible confusion caused by his carelessness can lead to big problems for those of us who are Eastern Orthodox.
The dialectic becomes so strong the, that it puts shade on all life.
1:14 yep . Going try to remember to watch this on the weekend..
Thanks James. Need all right of left people to watch your content and we’d win
The Proper friend foe distinction is. Is your position friendly to my tribe, or is your position detrimental to my tribe.
Makes me nervous about how things are looking for Biden’s fall (media turning) and Trump “rebirth”. Is our reaction their over arching spring board “forward”?
Always. Any possible outcome has been calculated for how to use it to further "the agenda."
@@sylvarogre5469 As if the left is really this smart or disciplined.
You should never be afraid of upsetting evil.
Evil isn't going to wait to act out. And the way I see evil is simply to call a truth a lie and a lie a truth.
Does part 3 even exist?
Try and remember to watch this over the weekend..👍👍😁😁
My main takeaway is that what we commonly understand as America was founded on common beliefs and principles of individual rights. Woke and Christian Nationalism are propgated by common enemy/grievances and abhors individual rights
Unless James has a winning strategy, I'm with Andrew Torba and Hans-Herman Hoppe. The trouble with James Lindsay is that he says what not to do, and doesn't have a simple to explain plan of how to defeat the left.
Another way to think about their dialectical vortex is to visualize it as a massively flushing toilet. There's a lot of swirling and activity and it usually smells a lot like shit.
What’s the difference between dialectic and pedagogue G? Or Rhetoric
yeah well , God loves you despite yourself James
I got sucked into the Christian nationalist space for a while. I still don't entirely disagree with it now, but ive always found the crowd to be very uncomfortable. Jame Lindsay
Some branches of Amish dont believe in self defence.ect.., even though Jesus said buy a sword, and also Peter put away your sword... another quote i forget who by is "all it takes for evil men to have their way is for good men to do nothing."
1:20:10 The 'big sort' was achieved in India, with the creation of Pakistan. A lifetime later, and they are still at war with their neighbours.
Psychologists call it ‘reactive abuse’.
Great timing today! Christian nationalist but not a Christian, eh. . . looking forward to hearing this and eating my lunch. Anyway, I'm a Christian who believes nationalism is idolatrous.
amen!
It's not idolatry. It's only idolatry if you elevate your Americaness over your christianess like it do.
But I'm not a Christian I just like Christian values and the bibles got some good ideas in it
Well. Maybe you live in a hovel, because by that reasoning, home maintenance is also idolatry.
Nationalism has been the norm for Christianity for millennia. Liberalism is idolatrous, it's worship of freedom and liberty. Individual freedom is not a value that any Christians until recently ever believed.
All church fathers who wrote about government were pro Monarchy. None of the people who put the bible together believed in liberal values.
I don't know whether Nationalism is idolatrous or not. To me having a mutual beneficial relationship with the nation you inhabit is not only good, it's also dignified
Even though you blocked me on Twitter(X), I still respect you and love to listen to your talks. God speed.