Michael Shellenberger's Guide to Escaping the Woke Matrix 

“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

I almost wanted to cry listening to his speech! I was a liberal, more so a conservative now, found my Catholic Latin roots, and have been Awake for awhile! I’m an RN that fought getting the jab and won! However, waking out of the matrix can be a lonely depressing place to be. However, there is no going back for me❤

…. And he lost his livelihood to bring us all real information. Rare. True believer. True hero. Thank you MS!

I said it once, twice, and ill say it again, Michael Shellenberger is one of those most amazingly passionate reporters who has ever existed. One of the few with true conviction

"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” ~ Orwell

He's reached that point where he's simply no longer going to filter or sugar coat his gut felt authentic beliefs. Eventually we all get there but too few have the balls to express it.

This speech is brilliantly put together. Well done, Michael Shellenberger 👏👏👏

THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT ALL PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR. PLEASE SHARE. ❤

This is my first RU-vid comment ever. Thank you, Michael. I spent over a decade in lefty politics and quit because I started to see bullshit everywhere. Thank you.

Most likely, no one will read this, but here it goes.... I thought it was just me who had the problem of not being able to convince family members about the horrible things going on in our country. It surprises me that a Man of such brilliance (Michael Shellenberger) has the same issues with family...

Michael Shellenberger is profound, eloquent and powerful. Thank you for posting his lecture.

Voted Democrat all my life until I realized they do not care about my issues, they just said they cared. I feel so much more at "home" with the Republican party. Thank you. No woke is dope!

I have seen a lot of Michael over the last few years, but I have never seen him perform with this level of controlled anger This is one of the most brilliant speeches ever delivered.

I can't believe this much truth is allowed in one video on RU-vid. Every person in this country needs to see this video. Too bad I have already parted ways with all the woke people that I knew and don't even have enough common ground to communicate let alone reason with. Just to see this many people listening to this man gives me hope.

I am impressed on this video. I did not think or expect that videos like this would stay up for 5 months. Thank You.

So impressive. Courage is contagious.

Heroes do Exist, People who fight for Truth, and Inspire other People to fight the good fight. Thank You Michael Shellenberger!

This man has totally renewed my faith in humanity

God bless you, Michael Shellenberger. I read your book in 2021, so refreshing to read sanity I these times. Thank you for this genius speech that joins up so many apparently disconnected dots. So sorry to know you've been through such hardship along the way. It's testimony to your strength of character that you're still here speaking truth

Great man!!! The entire world needs more people like him.

What a superb lecture I just enjoyed. Thank you for the university to allow this presentation. As a 83 year old I needed his spirit of optimism. Having survived WWll , I hope this government comes to its senses and has the courage to make appropriate changes. God Almighty will have something to say about the misery these elites are causing to humanity!

Congrats to UATX for having the courage to bring speakers like Michael to your school and really providing your students with an education. Thanks for treating your students like adults and letting them make their OWN minds up on issues and helping them create a balanced perspective of the world. That is what college is SUPPOSED to be about.

This speech needs to be spread far and wide!

Michael Shellenberger is the true voice of reason. I love that he exposes all the false narratives and the selfish reasons for doing so. Thank God for good and responsible journalists like him!

We need more people like him in this world.

Wow, just wow. And many many heartfelt thanks to Mr. Shellenberger. And the institution which gave him this platform.

This is the most amazing speech! I am stunned by the incredible facts presented by Michael schellenberger. And not just the facts but his extraordinarily phenomenal ability to communicate these facts is stunning! This speech should be required for all High School and college students to watch. And it should be especially required for all Democrats to watch. They'll still deny it, because that's how they are. God bless Michael space schellenberger!

Ive got just a few things to say about this speech he gave ... IT GIVES ME HOPE, A HOPE I HAD JUST ABOUT LOST IN HUMANITY, AND THIS HOPE IS A MUCH NEEDED RENEWAL OF SPIRIT THAT I AND SO MANY OTHERS NEED. P.S. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN MAKING SURE THIS SPEECH IS GETTING OUT TO THE WORLD AND THANK YOU TO MR. MICHEAL SHELLENBURGER FOR GIVING SUCH A REVEALING AND UPLIFTING SPEECH. BRAVO, BRAVO! 👍✌️🙏♥️🇺🇲

How did we get to the point where it's now brave, and risky, to speak the truth? I hope to see more of these speeches.

Arguably one of the best speeches ever. Thank you Michael for telling the truth and having the courage to say it out loud.

Mr Shellenberger has a finely honed sense of irony and slow burning wit. a pleasure to listen to him.

Thank you to the people who allowed the truth to be aired.

Shellenberger has become one of the more important voices of our time......im very grateful for his efforts...

This absolutely needs to be essential viewing for all students and adults alike. Succinct and beautifully articulated

Just found this. As a teacher, father and Christian, I am blow away by how much this segment speaks to me. Stunned.

Michael is an amazing person. So intelligent, wise, he searches and then shares his wisdom with all of us. That´s so beautiful. He is a beautiful person, but he is also a strong person. Really inspiring. i also have to tell that he helped me to find peace in my state of mind and emotions, because I felt really alone with my way of thinking. Now I know I am not alone.. It´s such a grace nowadays for having the possibility via internet to network. :) thanks University of Austin for posting this 🙏.

I keep saying, “Where are all the adults who know better?” Michael is one of the answers to this question. Thank you for standing up in difficult times when it comes with a cost to yourself. You’re a hero.

As a health care professional and PhD, and researcher, I always second guess data. Mr. Shellenberger is 100% correct.

Five months after the post , I am enjoying this now. Clarity of thought and expression delivered with a deep passion.

Thank you Michael for being a voice of reason. I'm inspired by your journalistic integrity. Thank you UATX for exposing your young students to Michael.

It's always nice to be reminded that we, the people, are not crazy.

Congratulations University of Austin! Keep fighting for truth! Thank you for sharing this! We are so blessed! ❤❤❤❤

This presentation raises the bar on the phrase “bringing the receipts”. Michael is a gift to society.

I am a nurse and worked with a nurse who died after her vaccine. She was beautiful and left three children. I had several blood transfusions due to severe anemia and refused the vaccine but was threatened with termination daily and had to get a medical excuse

This should be a great remedy for people who have fallen for wokeism/the matrix. Thanks for making it public!

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”Selwyn Duke

Great talk... thank you Michael and Austin University for sharing this with the wider community. Greetings from Australia.

A heartfelt "thank you " for what you are doing.

This should be shown at every Highschool and University in the United States!

I didn’t even know that this talk had taken place. This video just started playing after the one I was watching finished. I am so incredibly glad I found this! Bravo to men like Michal Schellenberger who articulate truth so well and have to e bravery to do it!

...Damn, he is usually a soft-spoken man and I didn't expect this speech to be so passionate. Almost moved me to tears.

Without question, this is one of the best objective presentations I've ever had the good fortune to hear .... Thank you Michael for your courage and effort to expose the issues the world is facing.

I cant believe I am just now finding out about this man! Bravo, excellent speech. We need more of this. Thank you, sir.

One of the best counter narrative breakdowns of how we’re being propagandized. How racial division and strife is being fomented by those who want to control us. Thank you to Mr Shellenberger for having the courage to take this message to the young and stimulate critical thinking which is what education is supposed to be about. Excellent!

This is an absolute symphony to my brain. Thank you!

OUTFREAKINGSTANDING SPEECH!!! Thank you so much for this presentation.

When I listen to people like this speaking out , I am hopeful we can turn this ship around.

As a previous mental health clinician in California I have seen all of this Cluster B manifest before my eyes. So incredibly disturbing on so many levels. Thanks Michael for speaking truth! We need to speak up if to shed light on the madness!!!

Your speech is very close to poetry, rich in merit and filled with promise. Thank You!

With his honesty, his insight, his clarity, his intellect, he brought tears to my eyes. We need more of these truth sayers to save our world before it’s taken from us.

Any school that invites Shellenberger and listen to him this way is a top school by definition.

Thank you for putting this online for everyone to see! I've already watched it twice and encouraged others to audit this course. It gives me hope.

Thank you Michael!! Second time i have listened to you and learned so much, you are so refreshing and enlightening. God Bless You!!

SUPERB. INTELLIGENT and BRAVE.

Michael Shellenberger is an American hero. God bless and keep Michael Shellenberger as he continues to bring irrefutable truths to the American public. This is probably the most important speech given by anyone in the last 50 years. Yet sadly... half of the student audience seems to be entirely apathetic and ambivalent. I hope by talk's end, all of the students will have opened their minds to Michael's message.

Another outstanding presentation from an intelligent, moral and courageous individual who never ceases to inspire

Shellenberger is a true hero!

This keeps popping up. That gives me hope. Hope that its popping up for everybody! I’ll listen for a third time, maybe I missed something. 🙏❤️👏

"When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie." -Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Wow. What did I do to deserve this speech on this lovely Friday?! ♥️🙏🏾💯

This guy is a treasure.

*I read 'The Denial of Death' when I was 18. I bought it in an airport book stand on my way home from Air Force boot camp in 1966.* *An incredible life changing book.*

"You have to go into the darkness". That is the first step in Awakening to truth. Thank you so much for this speech.

Thank you Mike! I had tears, yes tears. Knowing I was not crazy but hearing someone else say it with information to back it up. Tears.

Excellent presentation sir. Thank you

I can't thank you enough for posting this. I needed to hear this.

Wow! A whole month to come to this... Michael (and Matt also) has done a great job informing the public. The thing is that people are in denial.

This is one of the best and most compelling talks I have ever heard. Shellenberger is fully in command of his facts and is a masterful rhetorician.

Thanks for posting this. The Woke Matrix is so toxic… it is the real crisis in our world. ❤

Its so interesting that Michael has now shifted to understanding the base level reasons that people are acting the way they are and why this is all happening. That is, trauma, personality issues, psychopathy, and the need for meaning and tribe. I am a fan of The Crappy Childhood Fairy, whom I know you, Michael, are friends with. This is a nice coalition of ideas suitable for a potluck dinner!

Everyone in the country/world needs to watch this and listen!

This speech clarified and articulated the root of modern day rot better than anything I've come across since the stink set in. Shellenberger is a saviour. The best part is, I feel better suddenly . . . at least the problem is well identified now. This presentation needs to be shared widely.

I fell to the floor when I realized a video this truthful was available on RU-vid or anywhere public for that matter. Thank God Mr Shellenberger is intelligent enough to question the norm and brave enough to continue sharing the truth, and that there are young people in higher education institutions who still think for themselves. There is hope!!!

Dark content but an uplifting message. We need more positivity in dealing with woke negativity and all of us need to speak out when we see BS and not leave it to the few.

This guy breaks it down really well understood and even though some people will think that he's harsh or in your face. Because he has so many things to tie together and help you make a clear distinction between so many topics. And like myself. Not all people are as articulate as Jordan Peterson. Bravo for being so brave..

He’s amazing. I Went to high school with him..hoping he comes home to colorado and speaks. We need him now more than ever.

Mr. Shellenberger... I am a conservative, and I watched this video. It was amazing, and I want to tell you that we agree on a lot more than I would have ever imagined. Thank you for being an intelligent, respectful human being!

Awesome lecture Michael! I will be sure to tell people about this one. What a sobering view on where we currently are, Thank good sir for your outspoken courage….

Thank you Michael for your excellent journalism and unrelenting compassion for humanity and the natural world, and perspicacity for truth and integrity.

This made me cry. Ive thought of all these things before but guess it was just the conversational approach that just made me feel a cathartic human connection while also feeling not alone and gratitude for this hero.

There should be more Mike Shellenbergers in this world. I was terminated at my last job for having the audacity to listen to this during my lunch break (-the vast majority of which I diligently worked through during the time I was with this 'company'). No verbal or written warning, just instant dismissal about 90 mins after I'd finished listening...by a VERY uncomfortable line-manager who offered up the lamest 'reason' possible, and a HR manager who seemed to get a genuine charge out of what was going down. Class act. The company is heavily woke-oriented and after my tenure there, I realised just how oppressive the atmosphere was; I felt like I had been released from a Gestapo jail or Stalin-era Soviet gulag. I'd NEVER expressed any non-woke views in any way, shape or form, but I guess the IT 'morality police' caught me. This is WOKE culture at work - totally unconcerned about who they target and quite happy to fuck with someone's livelihood, if that's what it takes to feel good about themselves and their bullshit agendas. Time to wake up people! This shit needs to be shut down before what's left of freedom of speech/thought/choice is lost forever. "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…." -C.S. Lewis

This is one of the best presentations I think I've ever seen on RU-vid! I only discovered the University of Austin, and Michael Shellenberger, a few weeks ago. As an ex-academic with a doctorate in philosophy I'm not using (mainstream academia being too corrupt for me; Shellenberger barely scratches the surface), I'd love to join them if they'd have me - sent an application just this month. This will mean moving back to the U.S., as I've been living in Chile for over a decade now, but paying close attention to affairs back home. The rise of Donald Trump should have been predictable; also the borderline-violent reaction to Trump which is continuing, and who knows where 2024 is going to take us? Shellenberg's presentation gives me hope that one way or another, Americans will survive this fight between those who want to consolidate money and power globally and dominate, versus those who just want to be left alone to pursue their private goals and dreams. Will be seeking out Shellenberger's writings, and will be learning from those who are building up the University of Austin, regardless of whether I have any future with them or not.

"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." - Voltaire This man is a true American hero.

Amazing speech. It should be shared far and wide . Shellenberger is a national treasure.

Thank you for posting this.

Bammm. Again, delivered true sense. Thanks, Mr. Shellenberger.

I first heard of Michael when he ran for office in CA. Haven’t stopped listening to him since. He is a remarkable human being. People crave the truth and he brings it , every time.

This is probably THE best speech and presentation of 2023. Perfect.

I am amazed that this presentation was permitted to take place in Austin - one of the capitols of woke!

thanks for the hard work Michael. sometimes we do get the hero we need.