Hello cult members. Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:27 Redefining Hotness 08:45 Ben Shapiro’s Presence is a Terror 19:47 The Salem Witch Trials 33:14 Promoting Victimhood 41:10 Are We Past Peak Woke? 50:02 Social Justice as a Religion 59:12 Trans People in Female Prisons 1:04:48 Where are the Intelligent People? 1:13:58 How Andrew Stays Positive 1:17:08 Where to Find Andrew
The desperate attempt by atheists like Andrew Doyle to mischaracterize neo-Marxism/cultural-Marxism/race-Marxism (atheist communist ideology) as religiosity continues. Please learn the difference between religion and ideology before spewing such degenerate BS.
Yes - you get that with religion - with people constantly asking for help from Mr. Nobody - praying to someone who’s not there instead of dealing with their situation. Both are unhinged and deluded. Weak people putting responsibility on a fictional deity to sort things out.
On the contrary, having an infinite perspective on things gives you a far greater ability to deal with one's issues. Which is why the religious have such higher recorded levels of happiness and mental health. God is good.
@@clararob9869 Nobody can answer Camus's question for another person. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” - Albert Camus. Very large groups of secular Western TV watchers are both uneducated and useless. Their ostensible "jobs" and "degrees" or lack thereof don't matter. That's not relevant. Launching rockets and reading teleprompters into TV cameras is entertainment.
@@carlwide6594 You are correct. Few nonreligious people (and even many church goers) don't know what the word "religion" means at all. "Religion" does not refer to mental states. Mental states are both ephemeral and unknowable. Written words are not "pictures of mental states." Written words are not "pictures" at all. This is just a YT comment box. Answering these questions requires essay and book length treatments. Most religious people at least understand that.
@@sonofednawelthorpe8609 You need to do a little more research on what motivates man to look toward God. I suggest less Nietzsche and more Kierkegaard.
The ever growing "woke" mob makes me feel unsafe. Expressing my opinions, my feelings, could lose me my job, my friends, my family. That is terrifying.
@@aomorgancool1775 What do you mean "baby" I thought I said what I mean clearly enough? My nervousness started when Brendan Eich was hounded out of Mozilla for supporting the idea that gay marriage was not a good idea. In a democratic referenda on the topic. Never mind that had nothing to do with his actions or ability to do his job. More recently J.K Rowlin is hounded for expressing the idea that there are men and women and there is an important difference. Then we find universities full of people who want to erase history. On the grounds of colonialist support of slavery or whatever. Despite the fact their vision of history is often very wrong. It's not that I want to support either side of any of these debates, but there is a growing tendency to not allow any discussion on a topic, brand everyone with views one disagrees with as evil and try to shut them down. People are being arrested by the police in the UK for expressing their views. All in all I see this "woke" movement as a serious threat to free speech, intellectual debate and democracy itself. There, is that "adult" enough for you? Did I say enough?
Around 15 years ago I knew a couple who in most respects were excellent friends. They were the sort of people who you could turn to in need , and in conversation would ask questions as well as share their own experiences ...BUT... there was a HUGE problem around politics. I felt that my speech was monitored and my views policed , and in particular I came to understand that their ability to feel good about themselves was so bound up in the belief that their views were both CORRECT and MORAL that if they heard anything different they were immediately upset and angry. Discussions quickly morphed into an intense emotional event , and I often felt that instead of using persuasion their behaviour was a kind of bullying. It was just easier to change the subject and allow them to feel that they had won. Needless to say, the friendship did not last. These folks were in their fifties , so its not just the young who are carrying on like this.
Read something about you attacking their views is the same as attacking them personally. And with the ever increasing NPC world, that have no thought of their own, it’s getting worse. Or he talks about if you go against the narrative your instantly attacked from everyone else, which is peer pressure at its finest. And than you have to say lefter and lefter things just to ‘keep up with the jones’.
Yes, and I had a long time friend in another country, who I have not heard from again after I made a passing critical comment on a former British prime minister! Apparently that was just too much for him and have not heard from again!
Doing chores, listening to shows like this, marvelling at the richness of intellectual thought available to all of the people of the world in 2022. If we are not empowered, it is by choice...
It's a great point. I feel it's worth mentioning, tho, that in the ecosystem of the internet, the rich, worthwhile content is present but proportionally out-represented by the garbage. Anyone hunting for quality first has to weed through the "intellectual" chocolate chip cookies and nachos and pancakes to find the steak and potatoes. The majority of folk have likely always been - not just now - as hungry for and susceptible to overly simple answers to nuanced questions, but the internet has finally given them horizonless oceans of it to swim in, forever if they like, ever only a mouse click away.
You should check out Edward G. Griffin's interview with Norman Dodd. Or, you could just read "The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations" for yourself. To summarize: Dodd's report reveals how tax-exempt foundations (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, etc.), by their own records, have coordinated with one another to seize control of the educational system - for the purposes of promoting communism, with the expectation that they (the foundations) would be the beneficiaries of the centralization of wealth, and power, that would arise from a Communist State. These foundations are the ones currently funding the Social Justice movements, Critical Theorist groups, Social Emotional Learning programs, etc.; and they are a vital component of the World Economic Forum. Dodd's report is probably the closest we will ever get to seeing their objectives stated clearly. I highly recommend reading it (and/or listening to his interview w/ Griffin).
i don't fancy reading the books of men who are stuck in a world were it's all about the penis - their own words. ick! Pretty much where we are currently and what I'm opposing. Sorry, not sorry at all!
Those books are hilarious. Everyone I know who has read them love them too. I would love Andrew to give us a third one! For the mo, I am looking forward to reading The New Puritans.
It is a religion. James Lindsay from New discourse is one of the best people I found, that can explain in great detail. Consider searching for “marxist theology”.
"Those whom stop believing in God don't believe in nothing; they believe anything"--G.K. Chesterton They'll believe whatever elevates themself above others. "The non-religious/liberal is the least charitable as a percentage of income"--"Who Really Cares", Arthur Brooks Ph.D., Harvard adjunct professor. The left isn't Marxist or socialist, they ain't about to share their graft with anyone; Clinton/Sanders/Biden/Obuana... Their argument is the ages old: "all are equal..some more than others". It's ALL about the greatest steal in world history; so far, $5.1 trillion. Only 9% of the "Covid relief bill" went to Covid amelioration...
@Nicole Dickens "Ideologies" are NOT religions. "Religion" is not a word referring to mental states. Mental states are both ephemeral and unknowable. "Relegiosa" is the Old French word for a nun. "Religion" is word like the English phrase "religious order" referring to written down and shared ways of life for real groups of real people who can and have read those relevant writings. Coloquial TV English is not a language useful for matters of any consequence. We have engineering and law dictionaries for obviously good reasons.
Knowledge is the ability to learn. Intelligence is the ability to question what you’ve learned. I’ve met a lot of educated people who question nothing.
Anyone even remember when real justice existed as the rule instead of the exception? When people who have clearly done wrong and everybody knows it based on a mountain of evidence, generally get punished and those who were guilty and let off were rare exceptions, that's real justice. Where people who hadn't actually committed a crime are treated as if they have because 'we' don't like him and so we look the other way while he or she is being persecuted. I mean this literally buried by the legal system and not just socially. Is it really that much of a surprise that warped social systems of 'justice' would flow in to fill the void where real, honest, fair and balanced justice once stood.
@@emilyearl1858 We need to bring our constitution back into the court of public opinion. And every day I hear people in other countries referencing the U.S. constitution with awe. And that really made me think, it's far more than just a piece of paper or a underpinning of a legal system - it's the written record of universal ideas, ideas that only need to be claimed and demanded. In the U.S. we give our constitution recognizable legal authority, but the truth is those rights are inalienable. Which means the government does not give them to you, nor can they ever take them away. They JUST ARE by nature of being human. And those rights are there for anyone, anywhere to claim, people in other countries don't need the those rights to be codified to claim them. Inalienable and self-evident. "We hold these truths to be self-evident", they don't need to be argued or explained, they're obvious to all. Granted it is helpful, in times of trouble, to have that document, but unless we ALL DEMAND that it be honored, adhered to, and obeyed it could easily become just an old piece of paper, a relic of the past. And just as people in other countries can claim those rights without a piece of paper, if we don't claim those rights it becomes just a piece of paper. Sorry, for the diatribe. I really do believe this, so I get carried away. Thanks for your patience. P.S. Sorry for the edits, but I think this is an important message and I didn't want it dismissed because of my crappy writing style and typos.
I think academics and the like are a bit more susceptible to that type of ideology because many of them spend a lot of time thinking in hugely abstract terms and not a lot of time living in actual reality. This thinking is coupled often times with growing up fairly affluent. I had a very respected professor chastise me for not talking advantage of the travel opportunities the school offered, I was white so it would benefit me to see other cultures, I told him the school didn’t cover any of the trip for me to be able to afford it, I already worked full time to support myself and lived alone, he looked so confused and uncomfortable that money was a barrier for me, he mumbled I’m sorry and even turned his back to me to quickly talk to another student and walk away. And that ignorance, that sheltered mindset, that dumbing innocence, just made me feel so…sad for him…like if he was truly confronted with actual darkness/evil, he might just literally crumble
If you come from a struggling background I think your brain wires to solving problems and to do that you need to understand the real world. If you dont you can put all your intelligence into feeling better about things.
Woke academics are narcissistic, running from unhealed childhood trauma. Narcissism disables the frontal lobe when trauma re-surfaces, making woke academics indeed the clever stupid.
You know, I found similar experiences talking to people (mostly on the left since I guess I view myself as center left) who simply think that my skin color alone is what brought me any form of success. When I mention the fact that although I’m white I came from the USSR and my mother had surgery without anesthesia, I had a cavity drilled out of my teeth without anesthesia at the age of 5, we never had toilet paper but we had newspapers and magazines, I had to go through a bread line to get bread, my mom lost almost half her teeth due to the lack of nutrition (while she gave us kids the breast milk at the age of four and five because we had a newborn brother, while she gave us the mandarins while herself eating the skins). I remember many more things that were incredibly traumatic but I know in some ways I found those horrible things as a way to strengthen myself. Those were terrible things and when I said these things they somehow completely ignore all of this once again because I’m white. This is racism.
Thank god for people like Andrew Doyle! And you Chris, hopefully we can still have these discussions in years to come before we are all sent off for re-education.
FYI : update on book burning incident: " An Ontario school board has said that they now “regret” a 2019 educational program that saw books burned and used as fertilizer in the spirit of “reconciliation” - a program that was, in part, led by the co-chair of the Indigenous peoples' commission of the Liberal Party of Canada, who has recently been found not to hold status with Indigenous Services Canada despite claiming otherwise."
You are really great at these conversations, Mr Williamson. You bring both your sense of humour and your knowledge to it, making the conversations richer - and without overshadowing your guest. Great job! And Andrew Doyle's ability to be both razor sharp and a complete sweetheart (and funny as hell) makes him a hero of mine. Thanks for this!
While humor/satire + serious scholarship are two important prongs to fighting woke marxism, i think the third prong of storytelling is the most essential. I think we need stories to communicate why these kinds of ideas are wrong
@@brianmeen2158 you cant Reason someone out of a position that didn't use Reason to get there. These are low emotional-intelligence people. Low general-I.Q. as well. They recoil or lash out at the slightest of push backs on the their emotionally indoctrinated minds.
@@brianmeen2158 I agree - and to my mind that's why we need narratives to show people. Because it's so hard/impossible to explain this kind of stuff to people, in many cases the only way to get the ideas across is through stories
@@_Krazy47 I'll try! lol. So, it's Hard to explain to someone why being brave in the face of danger to yourself and friends is a good thing... but, show them Lord of the Rings and they will most likely understand :)
As always, with Andrew Doyle, there is a great deal here to unpack. I have a bit of a headache, to tell the truth, but I am so grateful for the detailed and intersectional coming together of so many ideas and issues. This is very, very important and the way in which so many institutions have been captured and co-opted by this ideology scares the crap outta me!
The reference to the witch trials in the Americas is right on. We women are capable of instigating and performing murder and destruction too. A female ex-feminist I am startled at the success of Saint Greta and other young, highly emotional but poorly learned women. We know how toxic masculinity can look like but here we have examples of highly toxic femininity sweeping through society. A collective craze has befallen free and prosperous societies.
Always enjoy interviews with Andrew. He's so rational and intelligent. His insights and observations give me hope that common sense isn't completely dead. That goes for you too, Chris!
Thomas Sowell: “The Quest for Cosmic Justice.” All justice is “social.” What they seek is something that isn’t achievable by humans, something “cosmic.” Religion? maybe. A worship of something omnipotent and omniscient? definitely.
I can't stress the idea that critical thinking is not an innate ability. Throughout history education has been to teach humans how to think. I used think everyone can think but have learned over time as a foreman, manager, and employer, my idea has changed and history bares this out all the way to the ancient Greeks.
A priest I know once said that woke ideology was indeed a new a religion, and that abortion was its sacrament (i.e. its anchoring ritual action). Thank you for this excellent channel, by the way. Even after hearing only a few of your interviews (this, and then the interviews with Michael Malice and Dr. Tania Reynolds), it's clear to me that this adventure you're on and that you're sharing is incredibly important. I'm currently running around Milan and Turin, after a year of running around in Rome. You enter these unbelievably beautiful churches and ancient structures, and if you're listening carefully, you realize that man was made for greatness. So don't stop pushing greatness. Keep going!
I picked up on this stuff a long time ago. I wasn't as well read as I am now, but was very familiar with marxism. Took me three years to get the programming out of my girlfriends head, who happened to be STEM and very well educated. So you would have thought being able to reason and be critical. It was touch and go through all of it until it clicked. Oddly our relationship is better than ever. BUt not to drop the black pills, I think people are going to have to experiance the results of all of this. The hard wall of reality. And that is going to suck in the lead up to it.
I always think of North Korea. That shows what we (ie people) are prepared to put up with. My point being we have a long long way to go before we do anything about it.
@Down with Corporate Amerika Norway is the country where internet, PC hardware and software, social platforms was invented? I mean, I like Norway. However, they best live with USA invents and discoveries.
Shoving social justice down every ones throats at the expense of the REAL people suffering with inadequate food living in the streets cannot afford houses etc.all sky rocketed with the pandemic and it is the height of arrogance and selfishness to put ones feelings ahead of all of the ACTUAL suffering . Its sickening .
I was just discussing this with a friend last week. I believe it is. So many have moved away from traditional religion and in my opinion, moved away from any sense of belonging, hope and a moral compass. Seems to more along the lines of "Marxist Theology" .
Here’s a ditty from my childhood, which was intended as a lesson…. “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. Properly used, one could chant it at your sibling any time they called you anything. And especially if they called you something in a sing-song voice. Feel free to use it, or put it on a t-shirt.
Here in New Zealand wokeness has it's own spin on things. Matauranga Maori, which is indigenous ways of knowing is being put on the same level as science. Also there is a plan to change the constitution which would effectively bring in an ethnocentric system, in as much as a Maori government would preside over all Maori matters. In effect it is designed so the 16% of Maori would hold the same power as the 84% non Maori, which would negate one person one vote. This is called He Puapua, which means the break and is written by middle class (part) Maori activists.
In Australia not only has Aboriginal studies completely overcome history as a subject, it's inculcated every school subject. The book they use to teach it has been proven to be untrue but they can't let facts get in the way of the indoctrination of children. And then there is the coming referendum on the Aboriginal voice to parliament, apparently we won't even be told what's that about until it has happened.
I remember noticing that crap in the early naughties when I did my year in Nz. I went to Te papa museum and played an interactive settler game on an early type console thing. Only way to thrive and survive was to loose your faith, change sexuality or race mix. This has been around for a while.
The fact that I have ancestors on one side of my family who gave testimony on both sides of the Salem witch trials AND on the other sides Austrians who had to live through Nazi occupation and choose between unemployment and destitution or joining the armed forces who rolled tanks into their country after they voted against being Nazi (they did the latter, and were secretly Allied collaborators, which is how they ended up in America) is a constant reminder of why I MUST resist groupthink, hysteria, and unquestioning obedience, and exactly why I hate and am disgusted by wokeism. We must ridicule these disgusting self-righteous enemies of reason and oppose their demands for conformity to their insane ideology at every turn.
@@grannyannie2948 I can't claim any of the research as my own, most of that was my father on the American side, and the Austrian side has an oral history going back to the late 18th century. There's a lot to be proud of and a lot of cautionary tales to learn from on both sides, I don't pretend to be better or worse thanks to any of my history, merely that I know where I came from and try to learn from their lives.
@@georgsyphers1437 I understand. I have a distant cousin who traced a mutual ancestor back to a tailor who worked for Henry 7. I can trace them all to their arrival in Australia (1830-55) but when I get back to Britain and Europe there's just so many people and it's too difficult for me. But it must be exciting to have ancestors whose words were recorded beyond land deeds and birth certificates.
My woke daughter said I was racist because I wasn't attracted to dark skin women. Now, I can't wait to hear about this new realization for her about me.
That was a very presumptuous, disrespectful comment. The majority of people are still dating and marrying their own race. This is a statistical fact. You may want to share with her the countless videos where POC are declaring their attraction and love for their OWN people, without apology.
And yet if you said that you were ONLY attracted to dark skin women, you’d be “exoticizing” them and that’s also r4c°st. You can’t win in an argument against these lunatics.
to understand "obtaining power through victimhood" one would be enlightened by reading Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals" - the triumph of slave morality, esp books 1 and 2.
I don't know why people put so much faith in that crank. He diddled young boys, caught syphilis and ended his life screaming at horses. The man lived and died as a moron.
Loneliness is what used to occur before the Internet was invented. Lonely chimpanzees would go off and sit in solitude but then later group together to hug and pick out each others fleas. This huddling is an antidote to loneliness. Half the comments in comments sections are an avoidance of loneliness. But what if loneliness is important as a precursor to group huddling? These days its all frenetic bonding, all speeded up, as if fear driven, fear of loneliness. The less time you spend being lonely the more you live in fear of not bonding.
Yes, it’s a religion and we need a separation of Church and State attitude to deal with it in our schools and public institutions. It’s getting ridiculous.
Dude, we are paying for all these "Idiotic Studies" in the colleges & universities. We have Women Studies & Queer Studies & Black Studies & .... Who needs all that crap?! If we stop paying for it, all this crap will disappear over night.
@@bestdjaf7499 you’re not wrong. But, we do need our public institutions. They are ours after all. Simply legislating the fact that these are religious activities and separate it from them is the best step.
It's the absence of religion that's left a hole to be filled. Forty years ago in government schools, in my country, we said the Lord's Prayer every day and read aloud from the Bible. Today this space is filled by CRT, and gender theories.
The film adaptation of The Crucible with Daniel Day Lewis is worth watching for anyone interested in the Salem trials. Anyone negatively affected by cults I'd recommend the work of Steven Hassan, Rick Allen Ross, Alexandra Stein, Margret Thaler Singer and Diane Langberg.
It's brilliant to compare social justice with puritanism because it really is an ersatz religion for the morally "elect". It also bears a resemblance to scientology and other bizarre forms of esotericism such as gnosticism. Love Andrew. So eloquent and smart. It's tragic that the left has lost its mind. There's a vocal minority that rejects social justice that is not conservative or reactionary at all. I'm a leftist but very opposed to authoritarianism. I cannot force my world view on other people. Either I convince them or I don't but it would never occur to me to impose it on others or denounce those who disagree. It's extremely bizarre.
Mixed race kid, born in the summer of 69, growing up in sunny suburbia in the 70s and 80s. If I screamed victim now, I would have 3/4 of the UK population arrested for offending my feelings. LOL!
We need to bring back the term "snowflake". We at my job were required to take an extensive online course called "cultural humility" one of the points that was made was that we could be fired for misgendering someone.
It was a travesty that the Salem witch trials accusers weren't hanged themselves. Anyone who makes a false accusation should either have that very crime perpetrated on themselves retrospectively, or be sentenced to the maximum sentence for that crime.
Imagine someone (Ben Shapiro) who does not subscribe to "person with a uterus's" gender ideology actually dared to come within fifty feet of her, at a podcasting convention which caused her "harm" and made her feel "unsafe.". I can see this person on the floor in the fetal position crying for her mommy while she was tweeting, this was so traumatic! Then there's the apology. Are they serious?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” CS lewis
Imagine having a country where you need to establish a "protected belief by law". Thank goodness for our First Amendment. I feel for everyone else that is dealing with the ramifications of having no such guarantee of freedom of speech.
I used to believe that, but I'm honestly not sure what good our First Amendment is anymore, given that a.) speech is now under the direct control of private corporations who, unlike the government, are under no obligation to uphold Constitutional rights; and b.) the ever-growing "frenzy of conformity" has made any speech not in alignment with a far-left worldview prohibitively costly, both personally and economically. When "free speech" is no longer _free,_ we musn't be surprised when very few people are able to afford to engage in it... so what good is it, really, and how are we any better off than in the UK, Canada, Australia, etc.?
@@margueritezoe Don't forget that whenever the government want to they just have the FBI (etc.) call up these "Private corporations" and tell them what to suppress or what to censor and for how long. I don't disagree with anything you wrote, just wanted to add that to it all.
I live in 'that country' and it's your country that promulgated this nonsense which we now have to fight. Your first amendment hasn't been as protective as you think it has as far as I can see. Facebook and Twitter have managed to curate and deny a voice to anyone they disagree with.
Just a suggestion. There were those that suggested that there needs to be more social workers to work along police because a lot of instances are issues that police aren't trained to deal with. Well maybe when we look at stats of the amount of people on mind altering prescription drugs for mental reasons, the effect of social media and social affairs on the youth, The effects of lockdowns on society, That maybe it's time to open "Mental" Hospitals again as a alternative to actual prison or just ignoring the issue. There are places where drug addicts who have committed crimes are held that are given help and slowly transition to other wings of the institution where they're closer to finally being released back into society. Many of them are incredibly thankful for the intervention. Sadly it seems like too many are dealing with serious mental illness and what's worrisome is they're in serious positions of power.
Nah, it is more of a cult (although you could argue that religion and cultism are the same thing). Religion can be benign in some ways, and followed by reasonable and rational people, but cultism is usually a way of differentiating between the rational people and the extremists. And the social justice brigade are definitely extremists, due to their capacity to ignore facts, logic, reason, science, evidence etc if it contradicts their point of view. A better question would be to ask what kind of people are attracted to social justice? Because they are never people who have high social status, people who are attractive, admired, respected etc, it is the bottom feeders of society that are attracted to it, because they want to see the social status hierarchy reversed, so the people at the bottom (victims as they see themselves) become the best people in society due to their victimhood, but that goes against millions of years of evolution (where the strong survive and the weak perish). Basically social justice is a social manipulation, using the bottom feeders of society as a weapon against the best interests of society as a whole (in order to justify social change, The Great Reset, UN Agenda 2030 etc).
Peer pressure, those that give into peer pressure more to fit in. And the groups are vicious as he points out, agree or be kicked out. Study showed low T men would more likely be left, give them more T they would be more right.
You remember Larry Grayson, comedian and host of The Generation Game? His catch phrase was "Shut that door". and as he said it he used to extend his arm forward horizontally then let his hand drop in a 'limp wrist' kinda thing. Well, I know someone who was convicted of a hate crime for making that gesture to a gay couple. Not saying anything, just the gesture. He claims he didn't do it, and I believe him - he's not at all anti gay and he's the type who would admit to it had he. Point is that the only witnesses were the supposed victims who claimed they felt the gesture was homophobic. That was enough to see him arrested, charged, tried and found guilty. For this imagined sin her received an eight month prison sentence, suspended for one year and had to pay each victim £750 compensation - total, £1500 plus costs. A gesture. Fifteen hundred quid. Possible imprisonment. All on the word of the victims. Tories have had over a decade to rid us of this shit.
Darkhorse Podcast just addressed an article I think from a leading science magazine saying that they've changed things where peer review papers can now be edited post release. More and more it looks like everything in society and all of our institutions are now going to have to be filtered through the department of Political Correctness to edit or silence anything that can be a threat to power. Reminds me of a country in the east that has been seriously rising in power and influence who has practiced this type of control and top down rule since Mao.
Actually, the important thing with the Salem analogy is the advent of therapists . It's when Reverend Hale showed up, taking the girls seriously, and bringing books "weighted with authority" to "scientifically" assess the "afflicted" children. You might like to consider this. Hales intervention caused the thing to explode. The same with the Devils of Loudon case. When the exorcists arrived, everyone's symptoms got much worse. Same with the Satanic Panic. "Believe the children" .. nuns are pretty much children... has been their mantra. Nuns, Puritan children, preschoolers, and now the trans thing. Without the therapists or equivalent these phenomena wouldn't happen. Plus you need the complicity of those in power
How far are we from mental illness-as a whole-being ‘openly’ rebranded as nothing more than a “unique lived experience,” where schizophrenia must be affirmed as normal and worthy of celebration?
Choosing to take offense is deliberately labeling oneself as a victim. Unfortunately, our current culture reveres victims - even those who are victimizing themselves. But taking offense at minor issues actually serves to make the sensitivity to issues much worse. Avoiding that which makes us uncomfortable or fearful only serves to increase the discomfort and fear.
@@Fedorevsky It is conscious. It's all coming from these Idiotic Studies. And the Idiotic Studies Professors, want to get paid & to recieve the same research money as the STEM schools & professors. Instead of Investing more into Technology & Innovation, we pay billions to subsidize this lunacy. Since it's the public money, maybe we should have a referendum to stop paying for this Lunacy.
Very true. I think it was Thomas Sowell who talked about envy and resentment as the core driver for a lot of this stuff (I may have misremembered who exactly as I listen to a lot of commentary on this subject). I've also been in the room with those advocating for social justice and it became very clear that they were full of envy and resentment. They were bitter and extremely angry about what others had that they felt more entitled to.
the Crucible was required reading for me when i was at school ... presumably it has long since been booted off reading lists (do schools even have reading lists any more?)
“This person is a hypocrite, aren’t they.” Well, yes, but they espouse a particularly viral hypocrisy, don’t they. It’s a particularly societally disruptive hypocrisy, which is its primary attractiveness. Because it’s so self-aggrandizingly “brave” even though it is so utterly conformist and banal. It’s today’s performative communitarian psychosis.
Andrew: Please, please, please bring back Titania McGrath live! She would have even more to say today than she did before. How would "she" self-identify now? What would her pronouns be? How would she deal with the whole trans thing? Training kids in woke ideaology? How would she critique you? There are so many possibilities. Titania is funny AF.
If we "get rid of lived experience" as a factor in deciding social policy, and other legal issues, do we risk dismantling the case for individualism? How can individuality be nourished with yet another attack on it - its importance questioned - in favour of group identity politics?
Andrew said, 'Academics are now activists' - more likely activists have become the academics, and the educators, and the police, and the civil service - all having gone through the education system being drip fed all the way through.
Anecdotal evidence and experience is useful to form hypothesis; experimental empirical evidence is required to form thesis. The world would be a better place if these words were better understood.
No doubt they'd move the goalposts and ask for specifics. If you really want to make them squirm, you could just look them in the eye and casually describe female anatomy.
Thank you so much for this conversation! Even if we think the scourge of wokeness has peaked, we need to keep fighting it to ensure free speech and free inquiry and intellectual diversity are protected!
Well, if someone's words make one "feel unsafe" (as ridiculous a notion as that is) why shouldn't the complainant be the one who should leave? Why ban the speaker, especially, but not only, because most of the person's audience does want to hear what he or she has to say. In other words, why allow a heckler's veto at all?
How foolish this serious conversation is. like nearly 4 billion years of evolution and that I like healthy females as a healthy male is bigoted. I read so much science fiction that had me thinking that people had a nobler self. What a disappointment people have become.
