By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Feb 25
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 158 Enough is enough. While there is much need for purposed action around the world to set our countries to right, we are rapidly realizing we’ve had enough radicalism. But radicalism, often in answer to radicalism, is still rapidly on the rise. These facts raise an important question: What is the road away from radicalization? How do we deradicalize generations? An answer can be found in the religious spirit cultivated by the Christian and Jewish faiths, whether one is religious or not. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads from the
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 158 Enough is enough. While there is much need for purposed action around the world to set our countries to right, we are rapidly realizing we’ve had enough radicalism. But radicalism, often in answer to radicalism, is still rapidly on the rise. These facts raise an important question: What is the road away from
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Feb 25
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 156 How in the world did people become Nazis? How could it have happened? These are questions we grew up with and, maybe, always hoped against hope we wouldn’t be able to answer. There’s a comfort in them remaining mysterious, but in that comfort we’re vulnerable. How can we possibly make good on “Never Again” if we do not know how it happened? Sadly, today we’re threatened with the same menace. Sadly, today, we’re learning not how it could have happened, but exactly how it happened because it’s happening again around us. More and more of us know, with our stomachs
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 156 How in the world did people become Nazis? How could it have happened? These are questions we grew up with and, maybe, always hoped against hope we wouldn’t be able to answer. There’s a comfort in them remaining mysterious, but in that comfort we’re vulnerable. How can we possibly make good on “Never Again”
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Dec 24
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 105 We all know Communism is perhaps the world’s deadliest ideology, but what makes it that way? As it turns out, there’s a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it’s this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong. What this amounts to in practice is that when Communist programs start to fail, it cannot be that they were bad ideas in the first place. It can only be that someone failed to do them right, and, as it always happens, that hidden enemies are causing the problems. The result of this self-aggrandizing and paranoid belief is always
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 105 We all know Communism is perhaps the world’s deadliest ideology, but what makes it that way? As it turns out, there’s a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it’s this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong. What this amounts to in practice is that when Communist programs start to fail, it cannot be that they
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: 3 Jul 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 133 Book Club Series, Episode 2 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his subscribers-only James Lindsay OnlySubs programming. I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, and in this episode I read a short excerpt to give you a peek into the destructive power of Maoist “hatecraft.” Hatecraft is a term that describes the art of generating
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 133 Book Club Series, Episode 2 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to another exciting episode of James Lindsay’s Book Club, part of his subscribers-only James Lindsay OnlySubs programming. I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jun 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 132 Book Club Series, Episode 1 This episode is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to the James Lindsay Book Club as an ongoing part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform (for subscribers only)! As part of the OnlySubs platform, not only will I be sharing my more intimate and experimental ideas, but I’ll also now be sharing excerpts from what I’m reading and what that reading makes me think about. In this first episode, I’m reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 132 Book Club Series, Episode 1 This episode is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome to the James Lindsay Book Club as an ongoing part of his James Lindsay OnlySubs platform (for subscribers only)! As part of the OnlySubs platform, not only
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Apr 24
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 138 George Soros has a theory of change, and his goal is to make and move history. That theory of change is easy to understand if we take the time. It is also explicitly dialectical and alchemical. For Soros, society moves “historically” during times of chaos when people are searching for guideposts for what the future will bring, and it proceeds through change by “fertile fallacies,” which are the seeds of what has elsewhere been called mass-formation psychosis. That is, feedback loops based on consequential errors change history. If you want to change
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 138 George Soros has a theory of change, and his goal is to make and move history. That theory of change is easy to understand if we take the time. It is also explicitly dialectical and alchemical. For Soros, society moves “historically” during times of chaos when people are searching for guideposts
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Feb 24
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 81 We all hear about the pendulum swinging in politics. We’re also all aware that the pendulum is currently pushed very far Left, leading people to suspect it will swing back hard soon; indeed, maybe too hard. It’s important to understand how Work Marxists and other Leftists throughout history have made intentional and productive use of the pendulum swinging. It is their style to arrange affairs so that when the pendulum swings back, it has also moved position so that instead of striking them, it strikes another one of their targets. In this episode of New
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 81 We all hear about the pendulum swinging in politics. We’re also all aware that the pendulum is currently pushed very far Left, leading people to suspect it will swing back hard soon; indeed, maybe too hard. It’s important to understand how Work Marxists and other Leftists throughout history have made intentional and productive use of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Jul 23
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the… View Post The post Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War appeared first on Areo.
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the… View Post The post Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 May 23
Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First… View Post The post Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History appeared first on Areo.
Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First… View Post The post Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History appeared first on Areo.