Regaining Narrative Control | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 84
I have a metric for how well we're doing against the Regime: how long it takes people to see through a narrative blitz and pull discussion back to reality. This aligns with my idea that we're entering into a Second Enlightenment (https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/welcome-to-the-second-enlightenment/), and dire as things are, I see reasons for hope. In particular, while it took mainstream people years to start to see through the Trump Derangement Syndrome narrative, Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter took only months. Now, with the conflict in Ukraine, we're seeing serious skepticism arrive in roughly a week. This means that a full-on narrative offensive from the Regime is less effective today than it was at any point in the past, and the time it takes to see through the narrative push and wrench it back to reality is decreasing. I read this as a profoundly positive sign. Join me in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, to explore this idea and dork out with me on it through a JRR Tolkien metaphor. -James Lindsay
Resisting Critical Race Theory Workshop, Session 5 of 5
What is Critical Race Theory? What does it believe? Where does it come from? How does it work? And what can we do about it? These are core questions to understanding our times. In this series of lectures, originally delivered in Tampa, Florida, in July of 2021, James Lindsay, the founder of New Discourses, gives thorough, deep answers to these questions.
In this fifth and final lecture in the series, Lindsay offers a stirring alternative to Critical Race Theory. The approach he advocates has two prongs, one practical and the other cultural. Practically, Critical Race Theory must be fought. Being Race Marxists, Critical Race Theorists will not stop on their own, even if we ask very nicely (or firmly). Their better nature cannot be appealed to because their entire program insists that Critical Race Theory is humanity's better nature (in fact, the only way it can avoid being racist). Thus, practical solutions that challenge and limit Critical Race Theory's implementation are needed with the overarching goal of removing the influence of Critical Race Theorists from power they only ever abuse. Secondly, Lindsay dives into the need for a cultural renewal in the classically liberal principles that founded nations like the United States. He makes calls for decentralization of power and, even more importantly, a new Common Sensibility to replace the fractured intersectional sensibility imposed upon us by Critical Race Theory. Join him in this and the other lectures in the series to understand Critical Race Theory like you never have before and, in this lecture, to gain some clear ideas on how to take action to defeat its pernicious influence in our societies!
For those interested in learning even more, Lindsay's newest book, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis (https://amzn.to/3s25IFJ), was developed out of the notes for this series of lectures. His notes for this lecture served as the basis for the sixth and final chapter of the book. Get the book and follow along with the lectures!
Session 1: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/02/workshop-1-what-is-critical-race-theory/
Session 2: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/02/proximate-ideological-origins-critical-race-theory/
Session 3: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/03/deep-ideological-origins-critical-race-theory/
Session 4: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/03/how-critical-race-theory-operates/
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