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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Sep 24

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 141 Book Club Series, Episode 9 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Communists create destruction everywhere they go, often by appealing to nice-sounding but ridiculous nonsense as some kind of justification for implementing their projects. One such idiotic approach we’re all too familiar with, especially in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, not to mention across the formerly colonized world, is an emphasis on “indigenous techniques” and “indigenous ways of knowing.” Of course, this isn’t some new invention. Lenin

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 141 Book Club Series, Episode 9 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Communists create destruction everywhere they go, often by appealing to nice-sounding but ridiculous nonsense as some kind of justification for implementing their projects. One such idiotic approach we’re


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jul 24

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 97 In Mao’s China, the population was turned against itself through relentless campaigns known as “Speaking Bitterness.” Of course, this was prompted and forced by the Communists, and it worked to their advantage by tearing apart the fabric of the communities they were “transforming.” We have been doing the same thing here in the West, primarily at work and in our schools, under names like “DEI training,” “unconscious bias training,” “Social-Emotional Learning,” and, broadly, “Sensitivity Training.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay gives the original context for these disastrous “trainings” so we

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 97 In Mao’s China, the population was turned against itself through relentless campaigns known as “Speaking Bitterness.” Of course, this was prompted and forced by the Communists, and it worked to their advantage by tearing apart the fabric of the communities they were “transforming.” We have been doing the same thing here in the West, primarily


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Jul 24

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 136 Book Club Series, Episode 4 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform, for contributors only! In this episode, I’m still reading from Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. Specifically, near the end of the book, Dikotter outlines an important point about Communist society: what I call the Iron Law of

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 136 Book Club Series, Episode 4 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform, for contributors only! In this episode, I’m still reading from


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Apr 24

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 89 Our future, if the Woke Marxists prevail, may well be to be made into “digital cattle.” What does that mean? It means that we will be led into a state of dependency, perhaps using a Universal Basic Income, and enter into a remade (distributist) economy based on social credit, which is to say compliance with the state’s agendas for us. To make this system work, both practically and in terms of control mechanisms takes incredible amounts of data. Like cattle who earn their feed by being raised for meat, we will earn our “basic income”

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 89 Our future, if the Woke Marxists prevail, may well be to be made into “digital cattle.” What does that mean? It means that we will be led into a state of dependency, perhaps using a Universal Basic Income, and enter into a remade (distributist) economy based on social credit, which is to say compliance with


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Apr 24

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 88 Compliance can be extracted by tyrants from a population through a straightforward method of creating enmity between segments of the population. First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant’s programs and policies and those who do not comply. If there are enough among the compliant, a demonization campaign we should call “hatecraft” is employed to pressure those dragging their feet to comply and to demonize those who refuse compliance. Perhaps no one in history was more skilled at these techniques, the politics of compliance, than Mao Zedong in CCP-controlled China. In this

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 88 Compliance can be extracted by tyrants from a population through a straightforward method of creating enmity between segments of the population. First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant’s programs and policies and those who do not comply. If there are enough among the compliant, a demonization campaign we should call


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Mar 24

“Not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul.” -Mao Zedong Mao Zedong took over China with a strategy that will sadly feel unsettlingly familiar to us. Because he was able to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to comply, often enthusiastically, with his catastrophic programs, an adequate name for that strategy would be the politics of compliance. Understanding the basic premises and mechanisms of the politics of compliance is necessary for us today because these same methods are being used maliciously on us, thus require resisting, and because familiarity with these tactics at least partially

“Not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul.” -Mao Zedong Mao Zedong took over China with a strategy that will sadly feel unsettlingly familiar to us. Because he was able to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to comply, often enthusiastically, with his catastrophic programs, an adequate name for that strategy would be the politics


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Feb 24

Frederic Laloux’s monumentally popular book Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness launched the Teal Organization movement worldwide, as well as being the inspiration for creating Enlivening Edge. According to the book’s website it has sold way over 800,000 copies and is considered by many to be the most influential management book of its decade. A testimony to its influence is not only the many consultants, groups, organizations “going Teal,” and conferences, worldwide, but its translation into at least 19 languages. Enlivening Edge Magazine is fortunate to be able to bring you

Frederic Laloux’s monumentally popular book Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness launched the Teal Organization movement worldwide, as well as being the inspiration for creating Enlivening Edge. According to the book’s website it has sold way over 800,000 copies and is considered by many to be the most influential management book


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Jan 24

By Max Hong and originally published at Teal Around the World 2023 on YouTube Note from Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor: It generally starts with a crisis in an organization, he says. This is well worth your time for its fresh and zoomed-out perspective which turns out to have practical applications. 54 minutes 21 seconds  Transcript available with timestamps   To learn more about the upcoming Teal Around the World Conference 2025, read here. Featured Image by Gabriela Piwowarska from Pixabay[…]

By Max Hong and originally published at Teal Around the World 2023 on YouTube Note from Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor: It generally starts with a crisis in an organization, he says. This is well worth your time for its fresh and zoomed-out perspective which turns out to have practical applications. 54 minutes 21 seconds  Transcript available with timestamps   To


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Jul 23

Ancient Village, Fenghuang, China

Ancient Village, Fenghuang, China


By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Jun 22

For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the risks and prevalence of diabetes, respiratory infections, death from pneumonia and heart disease. The humble toothbrush played a key role in improving global health and quality of life. But the mainstreaming of toothbrushing took place quite quickly, over just a few decades before and shortly

For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the risks and prevalence of diabetes,


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