By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Feb 25
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 159 By virtue of the technological world we inhabit, we live in a propaganda-saturated environment. In fact, whether we like it or not, we all live in a psychological warfare battlespace, which requires us all to prepare ourselves for that environment. As ever, preparation begins with understanding. In this deep-diving episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay pulls back the curtain on “agitprop,” the combination of agitation and propaganda to wage psychological and political warfare, ranging from Communists like Lenin to Nazis like Hitler. You won’t want to miss this
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 159 By virtue of the technological world we inhabit, we live in a propaganda-saturated environment. In fact, whether we like it or not, we all live in a psychological warfare battlespace, which requires us all to prepare ourselves for that environment. As ever, preparation begins with understanding. In this deep-diving episode of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Feb 25
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 157 “We are the media now!” So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it’s incredibly fake. What we see there is mostly a well-crafted illusion meant to distort our perceptions of social and political reality. In this short episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks you through some of the many ways what we see on social media simply cannot be taken at face value. Join him for an unsettling look behind the
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 157 “We are the media now!” So we hear. Much of that media is social media, and social media is a psychological and political warfare battlespace. More than that, it’s incredibly fake. What we see there is mostly a well-crafted illusion meant to distort our perceptions of social and political reality. In
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Jan 25
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 110 Our present circumstance is a political warfare battlefield, like it or not. That means we are inundated with propaganda from all sides. Propaganda, of course, takes many forms, and one of the most common, subtle, and effective is what can be called “telling the truth, falsely,” or “being right, wrongly.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay outlines this bread-and-butter propaganda tactic to help you become better able to see it and resist it. Join him to improve your psychological warfare skill set. Additional episodes of New Discourses Bullets can be found here. Subscribe to New Discourses Bullets on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts,
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 110 Our present circumstance is a political warfare battlefield, like it or not. That means we are inundated with propaganda from all sides. Propaganda, of course, takes many forms, and one of the most common, subtle, and effective is what can be called “telling the truth, falsely,” or “being right, wrongly.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay outlines this
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: 9 Jul 24
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 134 Book Club Series, Episode 3 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. We are rapidly coming to understand this fact now, but it always bears repeating. Interestingly, one aspect of the fraud of DEI isn’t new at all. It’s an old Communist standard common both to Mao’s regime in China and the Soviet Union before him, as well as elsewhere, surely. That said, welcome back to my Book Club episodes of
OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 134 Book Club Series, Episode 3 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is based on fraud. We are rapidly coming to understand this fact now, but it always bears repeating. Interestingly, one aspect of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Jun 24
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 96 Dialectical Leftism doesn’t just do the old Marxist thing anymore. There’s a new dialectical game in town that allows Marxists worldwide to transcend classical Marxism, including in the Chinese Communist Party over the last few decades. That method is called “reflexivity,” as it was outlined as a so-called “shoelace dialectic” by George Soros in his famous book The Alchemy of Finance. Host James Lindsay detailed the Soros method recently in a long-form podcast on the New Discourses Podcast platform, and here, he summarizes the essential points in short form for the New Discourses Bullets. Join him for this
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 96 Dialectical Leftism doesn’t just do the old Marxist thing anymore. There’s a new dialectical game in town that allows Marxists worldwide to transcend classical Marxism, including in the Chinese Communist Party over the last few decades. That method is called “reflexivity,” as it was outlined as a so-called “shoelace dialectic” by George Soros in his
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