The Auron MacIntyre Show - James Lindsay Has Lost His Mind ｜ Guest： The Prudentialist ｜ 10⧸4⧸24

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00:01:29.980 Hey everybody, how's it going?

00:01:37.200 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

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00:01:42.640 Now, normally on Friday, we often go and read some political theory.

00:01:47.620 We try to unpack it.

00:01:49.240 The Prudentialist and I have been going through Nickland's meltdown,

00:01:52.740 which, you know, is complicated.

00:01:54.520 Some people would call it schizo-posting.

00:01:57.140 Today, we're going to take a little break from that.

00:01:59.260 But don't worry, we're still going to be reviewing some schizo-posting,

00:02:02.200 because it turns out that James Lindsay has lost his mind.

00:02:06.280 Like, he may have actually gone insane.

00:02:09.860 You will see.

00:02:11.860 We will unfold this before you.

00:02:13.320 We'll let you judge for yourselves.

00:02:14.620 But the man is not well and has constructed an entire conspiracy theory,

00:02:19.500 which I am a central figure in, which I guess is flattering.

00:02:23.500 It's like the guy who ended up shooting Ronald Reagan because he really liked the What's-Her-Face?

00:02:28.740 Jodie Foster.

00:02:29.360 Yeah, Jodie Foster.

00:02:30.960 I guess it's complimentary in a way, a very terrible and scary way, but one nonetheless.

00:02:39.360 Normally, I try not to do any kind of e-drama.

00:02:42.360 I don't find it interesting.

00:02:44.000 I'm not somebody who – I think it's relatively bad for him to constantly be picking fights just to make content.

00:02:50.320 I know there are entire drama channels out there, and they do well for themselves covering this kind of stuff.

00:02:55.520 So I get it, but personally, it's just not what I want to do with my YouTube channel.

00:02:59.960 But since I was personally targeted by a man who seems to have completely lost all grasp of reality,

00:03:06.660 I thought it was worth taking a moment to respond because, well, he's saying some things that are, well, quite frankly, insane

00:03:13.740 and should probably at least address a few of them in this moment.

00:03:18.420 So joining me to do that, like I said, here is, of course, one of our favorite co-hosts, The Prudentialist.

00:03:23.540 Thanks for coming on, man.

00:03:24.300 Yeah, thanks for the invitation.

00:03:26.080 I'm glad that we took a break from our usual land acknowledgments for something that is genuinely out there,

00:03:31.260 even for what you and I read.

00:03:33.160 Yeah.

00:03:34.300 Yeah.

00:03:34.940 The fact that Nick Land himself went and commented that James Lindsay was posting indecipherable gobbledygook

00:03:43.740 was pretty hilarious because everyone was like, you know, if you are saying it's indecipherable,

00:03:49.180 then it really must be out there.

00:03:50.720 If you've lost Nick Land, you've truly lost your marbles and the plot.

00:03:54.300 If Nick Land is looking at you and saying, man, you have gone insane, then it's time to think about what you've done with your life.

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00:05:48.720 So I want to start with a little bit of background for people who are not familiar with, okay, why is all this happening in the first place?

00:05:56.840 Why is James Lindsay trying to beef here?

00:05:59.580 Like, what's the story behind this?

00:06:01.740 So for those who are unfamiliar, and I don't blame you for being unfamiliar, I would not want you to follow all this drama all the time.

00:06:09.980 But James Lindsay was this guy who was a mathematician, right?

00:06:14.900 As far as I know, I don't know all the James Lindsay lore, but from what I know, he's this mathematician.

00:06:20.060 And you obviously have this revolution in the academy.

00:06:24.820 Wokeness comes in, and I believe he was part of, what would you call this, like the IDW wave two, kind of?

00:06:32.360 He was part of this, you know, he and Helen Pluckrose and some others, you know, got together and submitted these papers into academic journals with a bunch of leftist jargon.

00:06:47.300 And it was something about, like, you know, the male phallus being something to do with the weather.

00:06:52.100 And I think he even got, like, a copy of Mein Kampf through it or something at some point.

00:06:56.580 Yeah, he's known for the grievance studies affair.

00:07:00.860 It was him, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian.

00:07:03.700 This was in, like, 2017, 2018.

00:07:06.560 But, I mean, if you go back to his early career before all that started, you know, he was a well-known new atheist.

00:07:12.580 The first three books he ever wrote from 2012 to 2015 were about atheism.

00:07:17.220 You know, God doesn't, we do, only humans can solve human problems, dot, dot, dot, infinity plus God equals folly, and everyone is wrong about God.

00:07:24.980 And sort of you get after this is where he gets sort of his claim to fame about sort of being an anti-woke academic.

00:07:31.640 And there's this sort of deep American, but also, I would guess, sort of just like a Western belief that there's credibility in institutions, and we should defend them, and institutional credibility is essential.

00:07:41.840 And he does take his own studies and his own academic background seriously.

00:07:46.000 I'm sure that he knows quite a bit of things that I probably don't, or with respects to mathematics or other parts of his, you know, career.

00:07:53.160 But at the same time, when you look at what is about to happen in terms of politics, like any other person online, you can be exposed to things that break your brain very quickly.

00:08:03.120 Yeah, and that's the thing, right?

00:08:04.420 Like, obviously, the new atheism stuff is cringy.

00:08:07.560 This is already a guy who's not just about mathematics.

00:08:09.840 He's out of his field writing books about stuff he doesn't understand, because that's how new atheists work, right? 1.00

00:08:14.860 Like, you're not really a new atheist unless you have a degree in something that's wildly unrelated to any grasp of religion or philosophy or theology.

00:08:24.680 And then you write several books only on that topic instead of the thing you're actually educated in.

00:08:29.640 It's a grand new atheist tradition.

00:08:32.500 But like many new atheists, he didn't like the woke religion that was coming in to academia.

00:08:39.100 And so he jumped on that bandwagon, fighting that.

00:08:41.760 That became the new thing, right?

00:08:43.020 And he made a name for himself, not only doing these grievance study stuff, but he started putting together these genealogies of kind of critical theory and extolling the different,

00:08:53.780 or rather just explaining and diving into the different aspects of all these postmodernists.

00:08:59.800 And to the extent where he did that, that's great.

00:09:02.600 You know, again, I was only tangentially aware of this guy.

00:09:06.180 I knew he did this stuff, kind of.

00:09:08.480 I never watched a James Lindsay video or listened to anything on him, but I'd seen him post on Twitter from time to time.

00:09:14.940 And it was all kind of just the normal IDW, can you believe the wokeness stuff, which was fine.

00:09:20.100 That's good.

00:09:20.720 He would even retweet me from time to time, memes and stuff that I put up there.

00:09:25.000 And that was back when I was like a little, you know, PFP and on account.

00:09:29.000 So I was like, oh, cool, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:09:30.720 And then one day, James Lindsay decided to like fly off the handle at someone who I was friendly with, Alex Kishuda.

00:09:38.480 He discovered Alex Kishuda and the fact that there were some people who might not think that classical liberalism was actually the word of God inscribed onto the tablets of Western civilization.

00:09:48.960 And maybe there were some things about liberalism as James Lindsay understands it, which what James Lindsay believes in is not classical liberalism.

00:09:57.340 To be really clear, like, you know, John Locke would throw James Lindsay down a well, but he does not agree with classical liberalism at all, but that's what he thinks he believes in.

00:10:07.000 And so, you know, he found out that there were some people who were not hot on this.

00:10:11.300 And so he started attacking Alex Kishuda.

00:10:13.100 And I just posted the James Burnham quote that liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide for James Lindsay.

00:10:19.980 And he just immediately blocked me because this is like what James Lindsay does for everybody.

00:10:23.480 And that's fine.

00:10:24.160 I block people on Twitter so that you don't interact with somebody, you block them, move on.

00:10:28.180 No big deal.

00:10:29.920 But I think that was the first time I had ever seen the phrase Pomo trad or Pomo right regarding to postmodernists.

00:10:38.040 And I mean, I postmodern, right?

00:10:39.260 Right, yes.

00:10:39.660 That was his first attempt at woke right, but it failed.

00:10:41.760 Yes, the postmodern right.

00:10:43.120 Because that was one of the first videos I ever made commenting on Idram.

00:10:46.480 And I sort of called him like a guirondon from like the French Revolution.

00:10:49.640 These sort of, you know, we're not the, you know, we're not the Jacobins, but we're also kind of on board with a lot of the things they believe in and want to do some moderation.

00:10:56.620 But we're also really war hawkish.

00:10:58.020 And I'm not the only person who's made that comparison.

00:11:00.700 But at the same time, him and a lot of the people in the IDW are, you know, parts of what would probably be called respectable liberal academic society.

00:11:09.260 Prior to the Great Awakening, and now they're kind of seeing the logical conclusions of their ideologies come home to roost.

00:11:14.840 And if anyone who wants to push back in a rightward direction or even explore a different avenue other than, say, the classical liberalism will save us, you know, type of politics from the early 2010s to maybe 2016, 17, that clearly is too far for them.

00:11:31.260 That is a bridge too far.

00:11:32.280 And I think that your piece on the neocon cycle, you know, this constant, oh, things keep moving leftward, so we have to push out anyone further to the right of us, is kind of a good example of what we see here.

00:11:43.140 And again, James Lindsay being a sort of a new atheist and sees things the way that only a new atheist can, he's kind of got a very limited epistemological framework.

00:11:54.300 I think that that leads to seeing someone like Alex Kishuda, who goes to church and is a proponent for family, as well as other people on the right.

00:12:02.280 I'm also blocked by James Lindsay, so I mean, who cares?

00:12:04.660 But like, it does illustrate, but it illustrates a certain point, is that when all you have is a hammer and all you're going to see is a nail, you know, what kills me about all of this is that a man who probably despises right-wingers more than he does left-wingers,

00:12:17.740 and he has said this on the record, that he fears, you know, a swing to the right more than he does really the woke left, that, you know, he will go to these TPUSA pastor conferences.

00:12:28.700 And I'm like, sir, you've written three books about why God isn't real and how human rationalism can solve all problems, but now you're supposed to talk to, you know, these evangelical or non-denominational pastors about the Gnosticism of the woke or the religiosity of the wokeness.

00:12:45.780 And again, it does, I think, highlight a significant flaw in his thinking that, you know, all things have to be framed within a religious kind of rationalist framework that, like, religion bad, clearly, you know, we can overcome these sort of things, you know, sort of like the whole the demons in a world of darkness or something like that, Allah Dawkins and Sagan.

00:13:05.260 Yeah, the fact that the conservative movement elevated this guy at all is just insane, right?

00:13:11.320 It's like the same thing that happens with Bill Maher and that happened with, what's the other insufferable new atheist, Sam Harris. 0.76

00:13:18.820 You know, these guys were like, welcome to, oh, look at all the smart things, they're on our team, they hate the wokeness, they're just like us, blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:13:25.540 Actually, no, they hate you way more, they're way more scared of you.

00:13:28.720 James Lindsay is just Sam Harris.

00:13:30.900 That's it.

00:13:31.280 That's all he is.

00:13:32.020 Like, and it's the same situation for some reason, like you said, you know, guys like Charlie Kirk, they're like, this is the guy we want to model for Christian leaders, is this guy who hates them.

00:13:41.240 And James Lindsay has been very clear that he hates religion, he specifically hates Christianity, he really hates people on the right wing, he thinks they are much worse than people on the left wing and are very dangerous.

00:13:51.800 He's been very clear about all of this, none of this is hesitation, none of this is in any way vague, you can find all of these tweets and quotes, and it's all out there, he's been all extremely clear about it. 0.60

00:14:02.200 He is a bigot who hates Christianity, wants to see it destroyed, hates people on the right, fears them, thinks that they need to be completely controlled and locked away.

00:14:12.080 And that's exactly what he tried to do, right? 0.94

00:14:13.900 Like you said, it's part of the neon con cycle.

00:14:15.860 Oh, I got pushed out of the left because the left got slightly too crazy.

00:14:19.160 Well, now I have to be on the right, but I hate the right, so actually I'm just going to gatekeep the right, I'm going to transform the right, I'm going to turn the right into the kind of left I wanted, and that got away from me.

00:14:29.580 And that's all there is to it.

00:14:30.520 That's all James Lindsay is doing.

00:14:31.820 So when he's inventing terms like the postmodern right or the woke right, he's just saying people who are actually right wing, because I'm actually left wing, and I wanted to say left wing, but the left actually just invalidated the ground under which I stood, the thing I had built my career and my reputation on, so now I have to hang out with these guys even though I completely loathe them.

00:14:53.280 But people kept buying into it.

00:14:54.840 And so every once in a while, you know, even though I was blocked, Lindsay would like shoot out these, you know, like once every like couple months, he would spurg out and then like scream at me from behind a block.

00:15:04.540 I didn't know anything what was going on to him.

00:15:06.280 I wasn't paying attention to what was going on to him.

00:15:07.920 It's just something he would do every few months.

00:15:09.380 People would send me screenshots.

00:15:10.640 Hey, James Lindsay's at it again.

00:15:12.160 He's spurgling out at you.

00:15:13.260 Okay, cool.

00:15:14.480 I guess that's what he does.

00:15:15.780 Whatever.

00:15:16.740 But, you know, it's just a consistent thing.

00:15:19.840 And slowly but surely, he built like this entire like mythos around me.

00:15:24.560 Like I was some evil agent that was subverting the right, even though that's literally what he's doing.

00:15:31.500 But that said, James has been creeping on this for a while, right?

00:15:35.500 Like he's kind of been unspooling.

00:15:37.880 He's called like Jonathan Peugeot, some kind of Nazi.

00:15:41.360 He's like he has, he's, you know, exploded and attacked at all these people, right?

00:15:47.980 Very, very normal, well-adjusted people.

00:15:50.940 However, he's taken it to another level.

00:15:53.600 So a few, like what, a week ago at this point, Donald Trump posted a prayer, a Catholic prayer to St. Michael, right?

00:16:01.080 Like this.

00:16:01.880 Yeah, it was this last Sunday.

00:16:03.580 So we're less than a week out from this prayer being said, which is a common prayer in the Catholic Church to the Archangel Michael.

00:16:11.360 Right.

00:16:11.740 And so he lost his mind about this.

00:16:15.520 Just absolutely, just completely unspooled and created a massive thread about how actually Donald Trump has been infiltrated by a large, well, I mean, I'll just read it.

00:16:27.900 I mean, I've got it right here.

00:16:29.020 So let's just dive into the schizo posting. 0.93

00:16:31.220 Everybody buckle up.

00:16:32.080 Here we go.

00:16:32.480 So James Lindsay said, and I have to screen cap all this guy.

00:16:36.940 Sorry for the screen caps, but I'm blocked.

00:16:39.120 You know, people send them to me.

00:16:40.200 That's all I've got.

00:16:40.960 I can't actually see his stuff.

00:16:43.360 So I've just put together, I've reconstructed the evidence from what I've been sent.

00:16:49.020 James Lindsay says, Operation Michael, it's an operation, is designed to undermine the anti-woke right.

00:16:56.700 Now, I think Operation Michael is just a holiday that Catholics have, but, you know, maybe it's actually a globalist conspiracy. 0.91

00:17:05.440 It's a damn shame Trump has been pulled into this, probably on deliberately bad advice.

00:17:10.960 It's already a live active measure now and mostly unstoppable. 0.95

00:17:14.560 Here's how it works.

00:17:15.600 He's going to unpack this for us, guys.

00:17:17.660 Buckle in.

00:17:18.380 Most Americans, even Catholics, don't know anything about the Archangel Michael, except in a very vague sense.

00:17:25.740 I grew up Catholic.

00:17:27.240 Womp womp. 0.99

00:17:29.200 Does not know anything about his actual religion he grew up in.

00:17:33.180 Michael Mass was not a thing ever with any Catholic I knew.

00:17:37.940 So he grew up Catholic, but he doesn't know any Catholics, I guess.

00:17:41.240 Apparently so.

00:17:42.640 Been around for an extremely long time.

00:17:44.860 Yeah.

00:17:45.080 So now Michael idolatry, I mean, I guess, you know, sure, will be a big, big thing for our side.

00:17:54.960 And the theophysists will fill in the details of what it means for most broadly ignorant Americans to mislead Christians further, particularly towards war and violence.

00:18:05.900 Now, I have to say, I'm not big on theosophy. 0.55

00:18:09.040 Like, I don't know a lot about it.

00:18:10.600 I've heard Julius of Voler wrote a really good book about it.

00:18:13.440 But but but this these are the main villains in his in his theory.

00:18:19.760 There there are this there's this clan of theophysists, which are controlling the world behind the scenes, as you'll see here. 1.00

00:18:26.660 Yeah.

00:18:27.620 Meanwhile, since it's a dialectic attack, one of James's favorite words, it's it's a dialectic attack.

00:18:33.480 The dialectic is coming for you.

00:18:34.900 The left will use it to characterize Trump as a religious warlord, fitting the worst of the operation Christian nationalism motifs. 0.91

00:18:45.160 Man, there's a lot of operations in the John James Lindsay sphere because of the left to right dialectic in play in the op will be forced to take a side or dip out into a relevance with respect to the op.

00:18:58.540 OK, yeah.

00:19:02.220 Do you would you like to comment on any of that?

00:19:04.660 We've got three more posts.

00:19:06.400 I know.

00:19:06.840 I mean, it's sort of wild to me because historically speaking, like theosophy was founded by like some obscure Russian mystics and wasn't it had its founding in America.

00:19:16.640 And it pulls from like Gnosticism and Neoplatonism and like ancient Vedic texts.

00:19:21.200 But sure, somehow we're going to confuse a prayer of archangel.

00:19:24.980 Like this makes Q people look far more sane than than anything else I can really say on this particular matter. 1.00

00:19:32.600 It's just it's like a certain other online personality, not knowing whether or not a certain book about theosophy was written by another character.

00:19:41.000 But like it does illustrate, I think, a particularly important point here.

00:19:44.440 Like you are willing to create this grand fiction and internalized meta narrative about the fact that it was September 29th on the Roman Catholic calendar.

00:19:54.900 That's the feast of the Archangel Michael, you know, the leader of the bodiless hosts. 1.00

00:19:59.200 And then all of a sudden, you know, I don't even think it was Trump himself.

00:20:02.420 I think it was just like the Trump war room, like the campaign account, which I don't think it was.

00:20:06.220 It wasn't Trump personally going out copying, pasting, you know, because it's not that's not Trump.

00:20:11.520 But someone in his team was like, oh, pander, you know, to Catholic conservative Catholic voters, which tends to be the case.

00:20:18.780 It would be nice.

00:20:19.780 You know, we get all these like, hey, happy Rosh Hashanah or Kwanzaa from people in the Republican Party.

00:20:24.440 So nice for once for someone to pander to actually like Christians, you know. 0.99

00:20:28.600 I mean, Trump on Truth Social even had a picture of the Lady of Guadalupe on his like Truth Social account and just said, happy birthday, Mary, for the feast of the nativity of the mother of God.

00:20:41.260 And it was just like, OK, you know, like it's interesting to see that that being pandered to.

00:20:45.540 And it's nice to see.

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00:21:01.500 Some form of Christianity being put out by a public figure because God knows that doesn't happen every day.

00:21:07.360 But because of all the religions that are acceptable because it's that famous, you know, in-group preference versus out-group preference, you know, everyone else has to be catered to except anyone who adheres to any form of traditional Christianity in any respect. 0.80

00:21:22.140 And because that was put out there by a Republican presidential candidates campaign, this is the end of the world.

00:21:28.600 And somehow, you know, Archangel Michael is going to be the downfall of sort of this like conservative anti-woke coalition consisting of, you know, credentialed, obsessed new atheists like James Lindsay to everyone like, you know, Charlie Kirk and the rest.

00:21:46.240 Even though I don't even think Kirk's a Catholic, but I mean, again, it just illustrates that when you are so adamant to define yourself by what you oppose.

00:21:55.920 And I always find it funny when like online communists will take that one quote out of context of like the liberals will always side with the fascists.

00:22:04.820 Like if anything, historically speaking, James Lindsay, a liberal, is going to happily side with the communists every single time because he doesn't fear them like everyone else would, you know, like every reasonable person fears communism or any other kind of far left ideology.

00:22:18.920 And I mean, one of the things I think is really important to look at is a great book by Ryszard Legutko called The Demon in Democracy, where he kind of just asks the question, hey, how come we didn't punish the communists after the Cold War ended?

00:22:31.520 Well, it turns out communists make really good social democrats or liberals in general.

00:22:36.740 And that's why I always find it funny in that in the Oppenheimer film where it's like, well, you know, Mr. Oppenheimer, you're a communist.

00:22:41.900 He's like, no, I'm a New Deal democrat.

00:22:43.420 It's like, well, there's very little difference between the two.

00:22:45.340 And that's the same thing that we're kind of seeing here is that he is so terrified that someone isn't a liberal or isn't, you know, adhering to the secularized worldview of the nation or just sort of this 19th century post-enlightenment idea of the state where like religion is not a public mainframe or something that we all take part of.

00:23:03.960 And he has to view everything like it's a religious aspect, regardless of whether or not it is an actual religion that we might recognize, just, you know, Christianity or Hinduism.

00:23:13.880 But instead, you know, the idea of the left being a religion, for him, that's a perfect attack vector because he's a new atheist.

00:23:21.020 But in this respect, you know, because someone did something on a Roman Catholic feast day, this is just too far.

00:23:27.940 And then somehow all the QAnon people are going to rise up and take over every section of the Republican Party as we know it. 1.00

00:23:34.520 Again, we talk about schizophrenia.

00:23:36.840 It's like, get a grip, please.

00:23:39.600 Come on, I mean, reality a little harder, like you grab your swords.

00:23:42.660 It's like, come on, man.

00:23:43.940 I mean, you can come up with all the explanations you need for James Lindsay's behavior, and they'll probably be right.

00:23:50.400 But at the core, I think it's pretty simple. 0.97

00:23:52.420 He hates Christians. 0.96

00:23:54.140 Yeah. 1.00

00:23:54.280 He really hates you. 0.98

00:23:55.900 Like, he really, really hates Christianity, and he would like to see it destroyed, and he would like to see it purged from public life. 0.98

00:24:03.260 It's not rocket science. 0.85

00:24:04.380 It's really not.

00:24:05.240 It's not rocket science in the slightest.

00:24:06.840 He might be working with Christians now for the moment.

00:24:10.220 He might talk to you for a minute because he thinks that he can be a co-belligerent.

00:24:14.200 It might be useful to grift off you for a while.

00:24:16.920 But ultimately, he knows who his enemies are, and his enemy is Christianity. 0.87

00:24:21.680 And so the minute he sees Christianity introduce itself into the public square, he acts as if the things he really hates are involved, right?

00:24:29.760 Because that is what he really hates.

00:24:31.120 He doesn't really hate wokeness.

00:24:32.800 He doesn't really hate the stuff.

00:24:33.700 What he really hates is Christianity, and so when he thinks that he can use Christianity to destroy wokeness, he'll use it for a moment. 0.94

00:24:40.380 But the minute he thinks that Christians are actually going to assert themselves and have beliefs and care about things, well, then it's time to demonize them because they're the real danger. 0.99

00:24:48.600 The people, as you just pointed out, that he really actually wants to oppose, not the leftists.

00:24:53.960 He is a leftist.

00:24:54.800 He is closer to communists, whether he believes it or not, than he is to anything on the right.

00:25:00.160 But he would like to create this version of the right, which is just containment 90s leftism.

00:25:05.500 So any actual right is showing up, any Christianity, any actual invocation of the good, the beautiful, and the true, these are things that he has to attack.

00:25:14.940 We'll get deeper into the conspiracy theory in just a moment.

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00:27:02.020 All right, guys, let's learn a little bit more about how, you know, Catholics are conspiring with a Zoroastrian demon to destroy the United States. 0.99

00:27:13.300 So meanwhile, since it's a dialectic attack, remember, dialectic attack, very dangerous buzzword, the left will use it to characterize Trump as a religious warlord.

00:27:23.840 Oh, sorry, I already read that part.

00:27:24.980 The next paragraph, the office have a very particular and evil interpretation of Michael as the bringer of the new age and driver of human evolution, which they explicitly seek to control.

00:27:36.440 He is the bridge, the mediator for them between the figures of Christ, Lucifer, and the Zoroastrian demon of chaos and division, Eremon, from whom they regard as equally sacred parts of a triune whole. 0.90

00:27:50.820 The spiritualism of this occult religion, I want to be clear, this is what he thinks has captured Donald Trump's campaign.

00:27:58.700 It is already completely infused in your children's school through social-emotional learning.

00:28:04.000 Now, as someone who has had to sit through social-emotional learning training, I will tell you that it is evil, though I have to be clear, at no point did they bring up a Zoroastrian demon, though I would not have been surprised if they did. 0.99

00:28:16.040 So, which comes from the Fetzer Institute, the Fetzer Institute is an occult, theosophical non-profit based upon channeling and summoning Michael in order to bring in the next spiritual age of humanity, Aquarius.

00:28:33.180 They say so explicitly.

00:28:36.940 Elements of this view will be sprinkled in various subtle ways, never openly invoking Lucifer or Eremon, but only their positive-seeming attributes to ensnare good-believing Christians.

00:28:50.780 You see, Christians, he's just looking out for you. 0.74

00:28:53.040 He's just a good guy.

00:28:54.660 He's just trying to help you out.

00:28:58.560 No words.

00:28:59.560 Oh, where'd it go there?

00:29:02.660 To be taken astray, Michael Flynn's Christian nationalism has been appealing to Michael in the exact words of theophysus' Claire Prophet for years,

00:29:17.680 leading assuming Christians to repeat her incantations word-for-word in mass groups as a prayer beyond heretical.

00:29:27.180 So, there's some form of Christian nationalism out there that is encouraging its followers to say prayers in a circle to a demon. 0.74

00:29:39.280 Am I following that correctly?

00:29:41.640 I guess he's just assuming that a Catholic prayer to an archangel is the equivalent of whatever this Claire...

00:29:49.180 And, of course, the names that are being thrown out here with no citation needed, Mr. Academic.

00:29:56.720 But on top of that, right, like, again, we're throwing out every buzzword that he knows.

00:30:01.780 Dialectic, the Christian nationalism, anything saying about conspiracy, or, again, we're referencing theophysists or Gnosticism and so on.

00:30:10.200 And I think that it's sort of important to realize that, like, this is broad-brush generalizations.

00:30:16.160 This goes back to, like, when he was arguing with Kishuda or Paul Gottfried.

00:30:20.100 You know, like, Lindsay looks at Marxism, for example, as a theory based on, like, just oppressor or oppress binary, very similar to how the left views everything.

00:30:27.380 Yes.

00:30:27.660 Which, of course, if you want to boil down Marxism that way, that's fine.

00:30:31.480 But, again, I think Gottfried is right when he examines Marxism or what fascism is.

00:30:36.140 And, in fact, everything just becomes Marxism when there's two opposing sides.

00:30:39.380 That's why he loves the word of the dialectic so much.

00:30:41.360 He thinks it just means conflict.

00:30:44.200 And, of course, like, that's his only idea is to look at this through a religious lens as a new atheist.

00:30:49.260 When all you have is a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

00:30:51.460 This is why everything is about sort of neo-Marxist Gnosticism.

00:30:55.120 A lot of neos in there, a lot of references to religions or neoplatonist ideals that aren't particularly Christian and, you know, historically have been very anti-Christian, which kind of surprises me that he's on board with calling it that when he is so anti-Christian himself.

00:31:08.840 But at the same time, you know, if he calls something religious, any movement, any ideology, any action, any belief, then all of a sudden he's going to go out of his way to view it like any kind of new atheist does from the 2000s and the early 90s,

00:31:21.880 is to identify a religious vector in society, use the state to oppress it, or call out the state to oppress it, and then to hope that you'll be fine.

00:31:31.040 Now, there is a religious aspect to the left today.

00:31:33.460 I think that that is something that maybe James and I could agree on.

00:31:36.780 But at the same time, James is trying to appeal to institutions that hate him because he's opposed to them to some extent, also because he's white, also because he's male, and also because he's straight, allegedly.

00:31:49.640 And all those things kind of play out in the way, shape, and form that it's like, oh, you're appealing to the people that would happily throw you into the gulag with me.

00:31:58.180 Like, I'm sorry.

00:31:59.000 Like, it's going to be – you and I will be thrown equally into the gulag if they got their victory here, right?

00:32:04.280 But he's one of the good ones. It'll be fine.

00:32:06.080 Oh, of course, right? That's what they all say. We're one of the good ones, you know?

00:32:09.460 But whenever someone says that, it's like, that's very nice, sir. Now, please face the wall because that's how lefties operate.

00:32:15.040 That's how they actually treat you.

00:32:16.100 That's exactly right.

00:32:17.540 And it's so funny to call everything Gnostic because he's just pulling that straight from Eric Vogelin, you know, very famous for other phrases like don't eminentize the eschaton,

00:32:26.160 or he wrote a great book about, like, science, mathematics, and Gnosticism, which are stuff that is well worth reading.

00:32:30.960 I just find it funny that he's, like, pulling from a Catholic writer and scholar to do all these things while fervently hating Roman Catholicism,

00:32:38.740 fervently hating, you know, white evangelical Christians trying to be one of the largest moral majority voting bulwarks in the country.

00:32:46.060 It's why he hates Stephen Wolf and everyone else like him.

00:32:48.560 So it really doesn't matter where you fall in the denominational or church camp in this instance.

00:32:52.360 He hates you equally.

00:32:53.280 But in part, he's going to go even further into this take and start naming you as one of these, like, inner adepts of a dark, evil school of theophacists and so on,

00:33:02.980 which is hilarious considering your background.

00:33:05.600 Yeah, I should be clear before we get any further into this.

00:33:08.700 Neither of us are Catholic, so we don't have a particular fight in this.

00:33:12.820 You're Orthodox and I am Southern Baptist.

00:33:15.480 But, you know, details are inconsequential to James Lindsay.

00:33:20.320 He's got it all spread out on the board.

00:33:22.120 There's a lot of yarn in between all the different pegs on the map.

00:33:25.240 He says here, let me finish this part real quick before we get to the other thread where he attacks me directly.

00:33:30.800 This is serious.

00:33:31.900 The cult that controls the world and the left believes this occult religion and will certainly co-opt the right into its dialectical foil version and partial spiritual contamination.

00:33:44.360 It's also covered over with the fingerprints of counterintelligence operations we should be very slow to trust.

00:33:52.400 We must be more careful. 0.98

00:33:53.740 We must also find out who fed the side of Trump and expose the bad actors and dangerous fools in the circle. 0.99

00:34:01.360 This is no coincidence. 0.98

00:34:02.620 My question here is, who is we?

00:34:05.600 James, there is no we here, buddy.

00:34:07.300 This is you shaking in your room.

00:34:10.320 Okay, there is no we here.

00:34:13.200 You know, the voices, they are not real.

00:34:16.840 You cannot, they cannot help you.

00:34:19.500 He also brings in this response.

00:34:22.360 Someone says, James, please explain.

00:34:24.480 I'm a Catholic and we pray after the rosary and have my entire life.

00:34:28.700 And he's like, oh, no, here's a symbol for this evil organization.

00:34:32.780 It's the angel Michael.

00:34:37.620 So that's all you need to know.

00:34:39.800 That's completely destroyed the Catholic understanding.

00:34:42.160 There's a great meme here.

00:34:43.800 I would just, yeah, I want to share this meme because it's so fantastic.

00:34:47.940 Go for it.

00:34:52.140 No words.

00:34:53.160 Just no words.

00:34:54.500 It's truly an amazing thing.

00:34:58.340 There we go.

00:34:59.540 There you go.

00:35:00.620 The Breaking Bad.

00:35:05.560 Are you anti-gnostic?

00:35:07.360 Yeah, that's just absolutely brilliant.

00:35:13.020 All right.

00:35:13.780 So here's the other part of the schizo posting, the one where he decides to bring me into this.

00:35:21.160 And again, guys, drama is not a regular part of the channel, but, you know, when someone says stuff like this, what else are you going to do?

00:35:34.080 All right.

00:35:34.580 So, James Lindsay, and again, all of this is screen capped because he's blocked me.

00:35:41.340 I can't see any of this.

00:35:42.420 So I'm just doing my best to reconstruct what people have sent me here.

00:35:46.220 On the woke right, given the lack of access to academia, for the most part, there are only a few professors.

00:35:51.960 Vermeule and Deneen are examples.

00:35:53.780 So, very funny.

00:35:55.940 Adrian Vermeule does not like me.

00:35:57.680 He's made that very clear.

00:35:59.180 So what James Lindsay is about to do is group all the people he doesn't like into a basket, even though they, in many cases, have nothing to do with each other and directly oppose each other.

00:36:09.300 So he's going to list off just everybody he dislikes and assume that they all worship the same cult of demons from Zohar and Astrianism and something to do with Theophysus.

00:36:22.320 So, Vermeule and Deneen are Catholic.

00:36:27.300 They're examples.

00:36:28.860 But he says they might be honest and earnest.

00:36:31.120 I guess they get a pass because they're academics, so they must be honest.

00:36:33.980 They're the ones that must just be misled or otherwise are honest.

00:36:39.540 Deneen, or not, not calling Vermeule out, but he's Harvard.

00:36:43.940 So, well, I guess that's an academic rivalry of some kind.

00:36:47.760 I don't know any of James Lindsay's academic background school-wise.

00:36:53.300 Many are in media, though.

00:36:54.940 And to be fair, it's true that any actual right-wing thought has to be done, for the most part, outside of academia.

00:37:03.620 That's actually one of the things that guys like James Lindsay has made sure of.

00:37:06.940 So, what James Lindsay is criticizing here is guys like him have actively gatekept anyone who might actually be right-wing out of academia.

00:37:15.200 So, there are very few right-wing professors in academia.

00:37:18.860 I've met several of them through places like ISI.

00:37:21.140 Very nice.

00:37:21.740 There's not very many of them, but nice to meet them.

00:37:24.140 And so, he's right that a lot of this has to be done.

00:37:27.760 A lot of political theory and other thinking has to be done outside of this.

00:37:30.640 This is why some of the most relevant political theorists and others exploring philosophical issues or politics on the right have had to do some from outside of academia.

00:37:39.080 Because it's simply a place that has been rejecting it.

00:37:41.340 And James Lindsay and guys like him have been a central part of that.

00:37:44.940 So, he's complaining about something that he helped to specifically manufacture.

00:37:48.340 I mean, it's like he should know this himself after witnessing his own little grievance studies scandal.

00:37:56.260 If you want to lament the depth and the dearth of knowledge that exists inside modern-day academic institutions, you're also a product of that.

00:38:04.780 But on top of that, you also have to recognize that a lot of the scholars and theorists that many people on the right, including ourselves, will cite.

00:38:11.480 Not only are they like bloggers or ex-leftists, but also that there are plenty of scholarly and academic work from prior to 1945 that you can cite, study, reliably go towards.

00:38:24.640 I mean, this is why everyone kind of goes back to the basics like Plato and Aristotle long before modern Harvard was ever around that are pretty influential on my own conception of politics.

00:38:34.200 But at the end of it all, right, because Vermeule's not a fan of me either, and I know that there's sort of like that whole sort of Catholic base, and there's the whole link to Sora, Bamari, and the rest of them, who we're not fans of either.

00:38:47.420 But again, you have to lump everyone together and to attack them.

00:38:50.240 But on top of that, right, we have to put ourselves up.

00:38:53.860 So now James is getting all high and mighty saying, like, because I'm part of the institutions because I have these credentials, and you don't sort of just appeal to authority kind of fallacy to appeal to these institutions.

00:39:04.600 It's so sad that, you know, that you only have these limited ne'er-do-wells to rely on these people I also just happen to not like, despite the fact that you can find quite a few conservative professors in universities.

00:39:17.840 They're tiny minorities. 1.00

00:39:18.700 They are out there.

00:39:19.820 There's also, I don't know, you know, 5,000 years of recorded human history that I can go towards and cite far better than any sort of study or book that you've ever written or cited.

00:39:31.100 I just don't appeal to the popular liberal consensus.

00:39:34.340 But again, you know, here comes the conspiracy.

00:39:37.800 Well, and again, James is famous for discrediting these exact institutions.

00:39:41.600 So he's fully aware of how corrupt they are.

00:39:44.680 He's fully aware of how destructive they are.

00:39:46.920 He's fully aware of how infiltrated they are.

00:39:49.200 He got famous for pointing that out.

00:39:51.200 But because you're not a part of this thing that I have discredited, then you can't actually be legitimate in any way, right?

00:39:59.060 It must be said that the recent two years ago shift in the voices at the Blaze represent a woke right takeover part of that operation.

00:40:07.220 Woke right is another one of these claim words he's trying to get off the ground.

00:40:11.760 I did a video about it a couple months ago at this point.

00:40:14.840 Wasn't this Neil Shenvey's word to begin with?

00:40:18.160 This wasn't even his term.

00:40:19.540 I don't even know that's another one of those guys who's so deeply dishonest that I immediately blocked him.

00:40:23.760 I replied to him one time because I thought he was actually asking a question.

00:40:26.740 And he immediately was just like quote capping it, taking it out of context, saying nothing.

00:40:30.840 I was like, oh, okay, you're just one of these guys.

00:40:32.980 And I immediately blocked him.

00:40:34.020 So, yeah, I really don't know.

00:40:36.440 You know, I don't I don't know anything he does outside of just being incredibly dishonest.

00:40:42.200 But he says, perhaps most notably in the heavy promotion of Oren McIntyre, who is undoubtedly a fast tracked 2020 on woke right inner school adept.

00:40:51.180 I would like to be clear that in 2020, I was teaching high school.

00:40:56.720 I'd like to be clear that I was I was teaching kids about reconstruction.

00:41:00.320 That was my job.

00:41:01.360 So if they've been fast tracking people in the woke right inner school, you know, I mean, as an adept, as you know, I've of course been promoted since then several levels, you know, I guess I guess he's saying you were groomed into the position.

00:41:17.200 How the irony is palpable.

00:41:18.520 So, so, so, you know, obviously my takeover of conservative media, you know, I've single handedly, what incredible power I wield, living, living rent free in James's head all day.

00:41:35.080 Let me make the point a little clearer.

00:41:37.200 Thank you, James, because it has not been clear for you regarding the last week.

00:41:42.220 The woke right already has at least one major conservative media outlet significantly, but not totally under its control.

00:41:49.020 Yeah, I lead the woke right meetings at the blaze, you know, there like they have the morning prayer to whatever Zoroastrian deity he was talking about.

00:41:58.640 You know, that's that's just a normal that's a normal ritual at the blaze, I guess, is the is the is the thought there.

00:42:06.640 Um, they, they openly celebrate Carl Schmidians that Carl Schmidians run the show, uh, there now, this is a fascinating thing.

00:42:15.840 So did you know that if you read a book by a philosopher, you are actually immediately a religious follower of that philosopher and they define everything about you, which is why if anyone, you know, James Lindsay read Plato.

00:42:31.820 And that's why he is a fascist, right?

00:42:34.900 He read Plato.

00:42:35.800 He read the Republic.

00:42:37.220 James Lindsay, because he's familiar with the philosophy of Plato and might even cite Plato as being correct about something.

00:42:43.840 He knows that the state should steal the children from their parents early on so that it can form them.

00:42:50.560 James Lindsay believes that a hundred percent because he has read Plato and those are his rules.

00:42:55.360 By James Lindsay's rules, if you read a philosopher and if you cite anything they say as possibly being correct, then you believe everything they've ever written and you buy into everything they've ever had.

00:43:06.580 And that entirely defines you.

00:43:08.080 So those are the rules.

00:43:09.040 Those are James Lindsay's rules.

00:43:10.220 I want to make it really clear.

00:43:11.360 James Lindsay is for stealing children and he supports fascism because he's read Plato.

00:43:17.400 And that that's, those are, that's not my, that's not my implication.

00:43:22.180 That's not my assertion.

00:43:23.540 That's not my logic.

00:43:24.520 That is James Lindsay's logic.

00:43:26.000 That is how he understands the world.

00:43:27.960 That is the accusations he is making.

00:43:29.760 So if you've read Carl Schmitt, who is a widely read jurist on the left and the right, and you note that at any point in any of Carl Schmitt's work that he might be correct about something, you are Schmittian.

00:43:43.080 And therefore, you probably are involved in some kind of theophysis, globalist conspiracy to worship Zoroastrian demons.

00:43:51.420 Well, I think, again, his hatred for Schmitt, other than the, oh, he was alive and around and part of a particular regime that is universally hated because the Western world in the United States since 1945 is haunted by the ghost of fascism.

00:44:08.440 And that means never again is all everywhere at all at once.

00:44:11.540 And we can't have anything that resembles actual law and order or actual understanding of realpolitik.

00:44:18.380 And so, you know, he has a very like boomer consensus of what power is.

00:44:22.620 And in doing so, you know, the idea of rewarding your friends, your in-group and punishing the out-group, the enemy.

00:44:30.360 And again, we're to dumb down Schmitt as much as possible and to not actually read any of his work, but to quote mine out of context. 0.98

00:44:37.160 And then to say, oh, these guys are evil fascists. No, not really. 0.97

00:44:41.060 And I mean, he's building off much older work than that.

00:44:43.240 But also, I mean, this is why he has such a huge misunderstanding of power and he knows it deliberately.

00:44:48.080 I can't even say it's a misunderstanding because he knows that any rational person who wants to wield power knows you reward your in-group and punish the out-group to build up your own power base.

00:44:57.260 However, though, if someone does something about it, let's say, for instance, like Governor DeSantis and Disney or, you know, Elon Musk and Trump trying to help the actual victims of Hurricane Helen versus the federal government, you know, that seems to be, you know, verboten to him.

00:45:11.940 And in doing so, I think because you throw that in there and then you talk about all this like theophysis, Gnostic, Hegelian dialectical things, I think that that breaks anyone's mind who is not prepared to actually study it or to rationally comprehend that position to the best of their ability.

00:45:28.060 Yeah, a lot of that stuff was rampant during the Enlightenment.

00:45:30.340 There were a lot of hermeneutical, a lot of theosophical, a lot of sort of like Gnostic, you know, Rosicrucian kind of ideals going around during the Enlightenment.

00:45:38.980 And that allows you to sort of see everything as a conspiracy theory.

00:45:41.880 It's very Dan Brown, you know, Da Vinci Code-esque styles of schizophrenic thinking.

00:45:47.300 But for him, you know, the end result is, is that the way we were going is where it was when I was younger, that late 90s, early 2000s optimism.

00:45:56.520 We were a secular kind of like atheist rationalism will overcome this religious, in God we trust, republic, and we will be secured in that position.

00:46:05.500 But as we know how the left moves and as we know how all these things go in a certain direction, it will eventually run over you like your roadkill on a highway in the middle of nowhere.

00:46:14.860 And because you're witnessing that happen, again, that's too far.

00:46:18.820 The left has gone too far.

00:46:19.980 The left has lost its marbles and we must rebel against it.

00:46:22.260 Well, I hate to break it to you, but if you are part of the reason why they got to that position, you're just as complicit in the madness as that they are today.

00:46:30.240 But again, we have to use this against his real political enemies, which are the same enemies that actual real dyed-in-the-wool leftists have.

00:46:37.760 He might be a temporarily embarrassed progressive, but he's still a progressive.

00:46:41.580 And that has to be reiterated here.

00:46:43.180 But again, because one person out of the entire online right gets a small show on the blaze, who primarily, I think, in my personal opinion, have a large amount of people who are Claremonters and really love Leo Strauss a little too much.

00:47:00.360 Like, I don't think that that means that there are these dark, scheming Hegelian Schmidians out there that want to take over the world.

00:47:09.080 No, I think we just have a moderately better understanding of how the power structure in America actually works.

00:47:14.240 And that frightens James Lindsay because you can't just poke fun at someone like yourself or speaking what is actually happening or having people like myself or Morgoth's Review on or anything else.

00:47:26.300 Because all of a sudden, you know, opinions that are not within the lovely progressive bubble he lives in can be heard by people.

00:47:33.800 And I mean, thank God for it.

00:47:34.940 But at the same time, to James, that is unfortunately part of some ravaging conspiracy of people that want to bring about the end of his atheist utopia.

00:47:43.880 And it really is that gatekeeping.

00:47:45.060 It really is understanding, well, I got thrown out of the team I really want to be on.

00:47:49.720 And so now I have to turn the right into the thing I want.

00:47:52.520 So I'm going to tell a bunch of Christian pastors who I hate that actually I'm on their team. 1.00

00:47:56.860 So I can go ahead and spread this garbage and I can push out anybody who actually cares about, you know, Christianity or anything like that. 1.00

00:48:03.440 But back to our schizo posting here. 0.96

00:48:05.600 We got to stay focused on the schizo posting. 0.99

00:48:08.360 He says, beyond that, there's a well-developed and well-funded network of activists in the woke right.

00:48:13.880 Inner school.

00:48:16.240 I'll say this about James Lindsay.

00:48:18.020 He does, it's not a, he understands that Trump is great at branding and he's trying to mimic that.

00:48:24.300 He's just very bad at it.

00:48:25.380 So he's like trying to come up with the nicknames and the, you know, everything's got a code name and it's, you know, it's the inner school add-ups of the woke right, but not so good at it.

00:48:35.900 They're going with a variety of activities in building a parallel economy, which runs in a parallel to what many conservatives have recognized a need to do in the last few years.

00:48:46.960 Okay, so there's this bad plan to have a backup plan in case you get canceled.

00:48:54.700 That's all the parallel economy stuff is, right?

00:48:57.120 Like people who hate you operate the economy.

00:48:59.680 They will debank you. 0.93

00:49:01.120 They'll never debank anybody like James because James is, well, a lunatic, but he's also very safe. 0.90

00:49:06.760 He's extremely safe for the regime. 0.55

00:49:08.520 He believes everything they believe 10 years ago.

00:49:11.820 He's not going to do anything of any real value.

00:49:14.400 So guys like James are fine.

00:49:15.420 So he's not worried about it.

00:49:16.220 He doesn't understand why you would need a parallel economy.

00:49:18.820 I mean, maybe some Christians who might, you know, I don't know, say a prayer. 0.99

00:49:23.740 Those guys, they might need a parallel economy because they're crazy and he hates them. 0.99

00:49:27.500 But, you know, you must be an insane person to want something like that. 0.93

00:49:31.680 Yeah, well-developed, well-funded school of activists and networks. 0.52

00:49:37.000 I'm going to do the little side eye here.

00:49:38.500 I mean, you know, really, you know, I'm sure there are.

00:49:42.080 You can look at like the Manhattan Institute or whatever.

00:49:43.700 But I mean, if we compare, say, I don't know, the modern, you know, state where there are like 700 some odd thousand federal employees that are technically, you know, professional progressives, as Garvin would say, NGOs.

00:49:55.780 We've all seen how these bureaucrats and such fund left-wing causes versus the drop in the bucket the right gets.

00:50:03.380 Like, if you were to compare the 990, for instance, of like the Claremont Institute in comparison to like the Center for a New American Century or any other sort of left-wing or Democrat-aligned institution, you'll notice that Claremont is like a drop in the bucket the size of a penny versus, I don't know, 25,000 bars of gold bullion that constitutes the left.

00:50:23.760 But again, some people are realizing, hmm, if I network and if I organize and I don't fire my friends, maybe I can actually be something.

00:50:31.900 That constitutes a well-developed, well-funded school of things.

00:50:35.180 And there are plenty of things that you could criticize and talk about, like funding strategies or who they're getting money from.

00:50:40.340 That's fine.

00:50:40.960 But instead, all that James is doing is simply illustrating that actually I'm no different than Rachel Maddow.

00:50:46.940 There's a well-developed cabal of people that are going to destroy my precious grift.

00:50:52.100 And that's all that's going to, that's all that matters here is to keep the grift going.

00:50:55.720 And it's particularly terrible because, you know, we were just on, you know, Dave the Distributist was doing the OGC stream for, you know, to raise money for North Carolina disaster victims.

00:51:07.460 Because we know the government's not going to do any of this, which is what all these parallel institutions are actually about, is helping people.

00:51:14.420 But James Lindsay hates that because he wants you to be a ward of the state.

00:51:17.580 He hates community. 0.63

00:51:18.780 He hates Christianity. 0.99

00:51:19.940 He hates Christian communities. 0.93

00:51:21.140 And he certainly hates the idea that they would help each other out.

00:51:23.300 He wants you to be an atomized act of the state.

00:51:27.020 James Lindsay worships the liberal state.

00:51:29.520 He wants it to rule your life.

00:51:31.060 And so in any parallel economies are as much a threat to him as they are to, you know, the actual system itself.

00:51:37.580 Because James is a slave to the system.

00:51:40.180 And the fact that we were on that stream and, you know, we're talking about, you know, with Dave and like he just can't do certain things because he's working all the time.

00:51:47.140 Because all these people are working all the time.

00:51:48.680 Everyone we know who is part of the distant right. 0.99

00:51:51.020 I'm very, very lucky that I'm in a situation where I get to do this as a full-time job.

00:51:55.920 The vast majority of people like yourself and others who are cranking out content, doing this stuff, are doing it entirely, you know, as a second job like I was when I was a teacher.

00:52:04.840 And, you know, he's over here being like, oh, they're a well-funded cabal.

00:52:08.200 Like, no, man.

00:52:09.300 Like, these are guys who are cranking this out in the few hours they can get between their wage jobs and, you know, family and everything else.

00:52:16.580 But whatever.

00:52:17.420 James has sinecures.

00:52:18.660 And so he just assumes everybody else does because that must be the way it works.

00:52:23.560 Yeah.

00:52:23.920 These people are organized and funded and are strategically targeting geographic areas to begin consolidating power in an initial plan called regionalism.

00:52:32.860 Well, some of that is wrong, but some of it is right.

00:52:35.980 Yes, that is the plan.

00:52:37.720 The plan is to actually have people work together and have community.

00:52:42.740 Yes, we have a dangerous plan called regionalism in which people work together and have real communities and are able to rely on each other and not be wards of the state.

00:52:49.900 Now, James hates that because James believes that the liberal state should own your life.

00:52:54.160 James believes in the total state.

00:52:55.740 He is a proponent of it.

00:52:56.980 He worships it.

00:52:58.080 That is what he believes in.

00:52:59.140 He doesn't like the Marxist construction or whatever, but ultimately he is totally on board with this as long as it plays by the rules that he wants.

00:53:06.900 So the idea that you would build anything outside of this, very, very dangerous to him, which is ultimately a WEF globalist plan.

00:53:14.800 I don't know if they're participating knowingly, probably not.

00:53:18.860 So to be clear for those following the logic, the call by many people, myself included, which I have made in my book and other people have made very, very much over and over again.

00:53:28.220 I didn't originate this idea by any means.

00:53:29.860 But the call that communities should take care of themselves and people should form families and people should take care of each other and people should prepare, say, I don't know, say, I don't know, just pulling a random example out of my hat.

00:53:43.600 Let's say a hurricane strikes your area and the government hates you and not only doesn't bother sending people in to help, but actively works to keep people who are good Samaritans from helping out.

00:53:56.020 You might need to have a certain level of self-reliance in your community to deal with that situation, a network of people who share like minds and aren't directly connected to the federal government who are prepared to help you in that kind of situation.

00:54:09.680 I don't know. I know it's a crazy idea. It would never happen.

00:54:12.280 We would never live in a country where the federal government would abandon a large group of people in a hurricane area because they just hate their guts or spend all the money on illegal immigrants and can't help them. 0.98

00:54:22.800 That would never happen. But just, you know, on this theoretical situation where that exists, you have to understand that ultimately you're really part of a globalist plan.

00:54:34.120 The WEF wants you to be self-reliant. They want you to build community.

00:54:39.280 They want you to unplug from the larger apparatus that is trying to destroy your life because it's all part of their globalist plan, you see. Brilliant.

00:54:48.560 Yeah. And I mean, it's funny how we can come up with an Alex Jones style of conspiracy that still misses the mark on a good chunk of things like, oh, you know, we're we're we're you know, we're befuddling fools playing into the groundwork.

00:55:03.760 That is the World Economic Forum, who have famously said that, you know, I'll own nothing and I'll be happy and I'll have 15 minute cities in which I'm under a constant, you know, panopticon style of digital surveillance.

00:55:15.920 I mean, we kind of already are now as it is, but still, yeah, I don't think so, especially when the idea of regionalism for most people, whether it be like the southern agrarian tradition, libertarians or the like saying, no, we shouldn't have power that completely centralized.

00:55:28.340 And we want to be able to act as a network that means that if I am in, let's say, unfriendly blue territory like California, I can find friends to either help me find a job or to help me get on my feet as I move over there for some reason.

00:55:42.320 That's what you want. But somehow, no, this is that we have to all the buzzwords.

00:55:46.760 It's all the buzzwords all at once. It's very much like I mentioned earlier.

00:55:50.020 It's like Rachel Maddow and and Russiagate, all those things.

00:55:54.520 We have to make this as scary and as awful as possible.

00:55:57.460 And somehow you, Oren, are at the forefront of it all.

00:56:00.640 And it's really just a disaster because, you know, it's what kills me is this.

00:56:05.240 If you were a left wing activist, Oren, if you were a progressive that worked with Antifa or the State Department or whatever, you could probably get away with suing him for libel right about now.

00:56:14.020 Right. Yeah.

00:56:14.920 Whereas because you're on the right, that can never happen.

00:56:17.420 But if you were like a Luke Turner figure, God knows you'd be in court like tomorrow over a libel lawsuit over this.

00:56:23.000 But here we are.

00:56:24.560 They're targeting churches, grassroots organizations and local level, sometimes state level politics and running the same kinds of wedge strategy strategies typical of cults, wokes and jihadis. 0.88

00:56:36.560 Small numbers lie and integrate. Medium numbers leverage to gain seats.

00:56:40.780 Big rules. So to be clear, he's calling people on the right the American Taliban.

00:56:46.740 They're there. And he's borrowing this directly from the left.

00:56:49.460 He's using exactly the language of the left because James Lindsay is a leftist.

00:56:54.320 He believes in what the left believes.

00:56:56.560 He believes all the things about religion that that he that and he agrees with them.

00:57:00.300 And that is why he's using their language and the idea that people wanting to be involved in local politics so that they can, you know, actually create a better community is part of cult behavior is James Lindsay's way of trying to scare you from having any actual impact politically.

00:57:17.320 He wants you sitting around plugging into the state, you know, becoming atomized, becoming detached, having no no future, no understanding.

00:57:26.480 He he wants you to live the life that the 90s liberals glorified, the one that he glorifies as an atheist, as someone who hates you, who hates religion, who specifically hates Christianity, who hates Catholics, who will go out of his way to create conspiracy theories in which Catholics are trying to take over the world with some kind of satanic prayer.

00:57:44.340 This is this is this is who he is.

00:57:46.520 He's very clear about it.

00:57:48.500 You don't have to speculate.

00:57:49.700 You don't have to come up with any.

00:57:50.720 Yeah, it's it's it's all there.

00:57:52.960 He says it, you know, word for word, you know, and it's it is truly amazing.

00:57:59.460 Hold on.

00:57:59.800 I've got more memes here.

00:58:01.520 Here.

00:58:02.120 The good one.

00:58:06.020 So, yeah, whenever, you know, I'm summoning archangels, which, you know, incredible powers that I have.

00:58:14.640 Apparently so.

00:58:15.840 Become the man that James Lindsay imagines you to be, I guess.

00:58:19.260 Become the holy man that, you know, James Lindsay is terrified of you becoming, you know, our friend Nate Hockman put one out.

00:58:26.520 Oh, yeah.

00:58:26.880 You sent me that.

00:58:27.280 This is too good as well.

00:58:29.100 Yeah, this one's really good.

00:58:30.120 So, Lindsay actually got community noted because he said, so, fun fact, there's a statue of archangel Michael slaying a dragon whose body is a nuclear missile outside the UN building.

00:58:41.280 Well, that's not true.

00:58:42.280 That's that's St. George.

00:58:43.640 I believe who you have featured on your own wall.

00:58:45.600 I do.

00:58:46.220 He's right behind me.

00:58:47.060 Just above me there.

00:58:48.100 Next.

00:58:48.340 Well, which just proves James Lindsay was right.

00:58:51.220 You're the looks like you're you're part of the conspiracy theory.

00:58:55.140 Apparently so.

00:58:56.060 I'm well aware of the story of St. George.

00:58:58.220 And yeah, I got my UN card in my wallet.

00:59:01.140 I'm so sorry, guys.

00:59:02.220 The gig is up.

00:59:03.960 Yeah.

00:59:04.400 The most famously one of the most recognizable, like archetypal Christian images of St. George slaying the dragon. 0.97

00:59:11.340 And again, for a guy who was allegedly raised Catholic, he doesn't know shit about his own religion, for starters. 0.92

00:59:16.660 Well, which is the most believable thing in the world, actually. 0.98

00:59:19.080 It truly is.

00:59:19.880 Because he has spent the majority of his adult life trying to rewrite everything that he grew up with.

00:59:24.260 I mean, like, we often joke on Twitter that, you know, the modern left is this huge deal of, like, I hate my dad.

00:59:30.740 And I mean, James Lindsay is a good part of that.

00:59:32.620 And I mean, yeah.

00:59:33.340 And Nate Hockman, which he should follow me back.

00:59:36.400 He's absolutely right.

00:59:37.340 The right has gone woke.

00:59:38.540 We've woken up to the fact that maybe classical liberalism isn't going to save us.

00:59:42.500 Heaven forbid that we look towards something that has meaningful proof of life that can solve our problems.

00:59:49.120 All right.

00:59:49.680 Well, we have about a trillion super chats.

00:59:52.460 So we're going to do our best, guys.

00:59:54.480 But we're already at an hour.

00:59:56.340 We'll kind of speed through here a little bit.

00:59:58.280 But that's everything I have on James Lindsay.

01:00:02.180 Like I said, I mean, what else is there to say at this point?

01:00:06.360 The man, he's posting this stuff.

01:00:10.180 This is the world he's created for himself.

01:00:13.220 You know, I hope people who love him are willing to check out on him, make sure he's okay.

01:00:18.900 Maybe help him see some stuff.

01:00:20.300 He has gone insane.

01:00:21.240 I would tell him to, you know, maybe speak some, you know, to seek some spiritual guidance.

01:00:28.180 But that would just put him deeper into the Theophis conspiracy, you know.

01:00:31.940 He might catch on fire.

01:00:33.520 Right.

01:00:34.260 That's the other problem.

01:00:35.880 But anyway, that's what we got there.

01:00:39.980 Before we head over to the questions of the people or probably more likely the hilarious comments of the people.

01:00:46.840 Prudentialist, where can people find your work?

01:00:48.560 Well, the people can find me over on YouTube, Twitter, Substack, any place where you can find your favorite amphibian as depicted right here.

01:00:57.000 I also write for the Old Glory Club.

01:00:59.140 And as Oren mentioned at the beginning, if you buy that lovely magazine, The Frontier, I am also in it.

01:01:03.680 Not talking about anything political.

01:01:05.100 I got the lucky opportunity to talk about video games and the economy.

01:01:07.880 So I have some diversity to my writing portfolio.

01:01:11.060 But you can also find me at findmyfriends.net slash the Prudentialist.

01:01:14.400 You'll find all of my work there.

01:01:15.900 I would highly recommend that people go read my latest piece on the Old Glory Club Substack, talking about Hurricane Helen.

01:01:23.660 So I got to talk about my day job.

01:01:25.120 I work in economic development. 0.97

01:01:26.360 I work as a dirty, awful government bureaucrat.

01:01:28.540 I know it's a shame, but I focused on disaster relief funding.

01:01:32.560 So if you know people who are affected by that hurricane and you're thinking long term, feel free to reach out to me as well as read that piece.

01:01:40.460 And we can set something up to talk about how to get your small town rebuilding in the next couple of years, because no one's going to really save you.

01:01:46.440 But your state governments, as well as your local planning organizations, have a lot that they can do for your town.

01:01:52.240 So that's what I would really recommend that people read in the midst of this right now.

01:01:56.800 Sounds like you're part of a globalist conspiracy, sir.

01:01:58.780 Sounds like I know.

01:01:59.540 I know.

01:02:00.120 I'm part of a regional planning organization.

01:02:02.380 Heaven forbid.

01:02:03.020 I got I talk with Soros every day.

01:02:05.400 It's such a tragedy.

01:02:06.660 Remind me one time to tell you about when I was a local journalist and I had to report on the regional economic committee that almost got collapsed because they couldn't get a quorum in order to vote to reduce their quorum.

01:02:19.100 That was one of my favorite moments in small government coverage.

01:02:24.960 By the way, this is what I was doing, I guess, when I was being bred as a acolyte in the woke in the woke right to, you know, school or whatever, whatever he called it.

01:02:33.760 I forget already.

01:02:34.660 All right.

01:02:35.020 So Creeper Weirdo says the woke right is in the walls watching me.

01:02:39.880 I can't escape them.

01:02:40.920 Tiny Stupid Demon says, remind me again when I send the self-destrap envelope to get my secret decoder ring for the St. Michael, the Archangel, Carl Schmitt, Aaron McIntyre, the philosophical inner circle of the woke right. 0.99

01:02:57.560 Can't wait. 0.99

01:02:58.080 Evan said, you missed the perfect intro today.

01:03:02.000 Instead of looking into Nick Land's meltdown, we're going to look into James Lindsay's meltdown.

01:03:07.560 Yes, that would have been the way.

01:03:09.340 Don't worry.

01:03:09.840 We're still doing schizoanalysis. 0.86

01:03:13.360 Autismo Prime says, shuckles for the boys.

01:03:15.940 Lindsay called Jonathan Peugeot a fascist.

01:03:18.560 Yes, I had Jonathan Peugeot after he did that, actually.

01:03:21.340 I choose all my guests by whoever James Lindsay calls fascist.

01:03:24.880 That's actually just my selection criteria for guests.

01:03:28.700 The French Canadian icon carver that talks about fairy tales and the significance of shaking someone's hand.

01:03:34.980 Yeah, that's the guy. 0.66

01:03:35.940 Yeah, Jonathan Peugeot, just a terrible person.

01:03:38.740 You can tell right from the beginning.

01:03:40.260 Very dangerous into all kinds of very dangerous cults, I'm sure.

01:03:45.380 Omega says, or Omen says, I'm currently working on an essay

01:03:49.940 explaining why subversive thinkers need to be rejected by modern dissidents.

01:03:54.540 Glad it's becoming more visible.

01:03:56.460 Yeah, it's hard not to at this point.

01:03:58.700 They're literally schizo posting at the top of their lungs. 1.00

01:04:03.040 Blue Wizard Robe says, Angel Summoner.

01:04:05.980 Yes, apparently I have this incredible power.

01:04:09.000 Again, it's somewhat flattering in the worst possible way, but I appreciate that.

01:04:15.680 Let's see.

01:04:16.440 James Lindsay tried everything to avoid anti-white race talk.

01:04:21.640 It's just power of Marxism.

01:04:24.780 The enemy seeks.

01:04:25.940 What does he think Ibram X. Kennedy seeks to do with that power?

01:04:29.400 Help whites out, target other races. 1.00

01:04:31.460 It's all anti-white. 0.93

01:04:32.400 Well, yeah, this is a huge part of what he's doing, right?

01:04:34.780 And this is a lot of liberals on the left.

01:04:36.640 This is like the vouch, the vouch cope and stuff like this, right?

01:04:39.720 Like they're on a team that hates them.

01:04:41.920 They know that they hate them, but they can't admit that they hate them because then they have to switch teams.

01:04:48.140 They have to do something else.

01:04:49.080 So instead, there's this large ideological construction.

01:04:52.300 And plenty of these people use Marxist language.

01:04:54.180 I'm not pretending that there is no Marxism, especially a lot of later Marxist language in this, of course.

01:05:03.560 But the idea that this is only those things, it has nothing to do with race.

01:05:08.960 Yeah, it's something that guys like James have to avoid because if they acknowledge it, then parts of their world view come apart.

01:05:14.980 Yeah, and that super chatter is absolutely right.

01:05:18.240 Race is the third rail for only one racial group in the United States to talk about out loud.

01:05:23.640 And if they can't blatantly acknowledge that, actually, no, the modern left is a vast coalition whose intersectional framework is developed and only focused on the disempowerment and basically just destruction of white people in the West, then that would mean that the jig is up and they can't talk about Marxism.

01:05:39.600 They can't talk about economics.

01:05:40.640 They can't talk about class.

01:05:42.220 You see this a lot from the compact magazine types.

01:05:44.240 It's not about race.

01:05:45.340 It's a class issue.

01:05:46.740 And it's like, well, it's a class issue.

01:05:48.220 Sure.

01:05:48.600 But who are all the people that they wanted to go after?

01:05:51.240 They seem to be focused on a very particular working class.

01:05:54.760 They don't seem to hate Hispanic working class that much.

01:05:57.900 Yeah, it's like the it's the it's the stone toss comic where the Marxist is like, I support the working class.

01:06:02.420 And it's like, oh, shucks.

01:06:03.420 Thank you.

01:06:03.840 And it's the white guy working the oil field.

01:06:05.320 He's like, oh, you know, every time, every time it's always, you know, it came back to McDonald, the guy who sent out super chat.

01:06:11.880 Absolutely right.

01:06:14.300 Thuggo says James is good at some things, but doesn't know what they are.

01:06:18.240 Yeah, again, it would be foolish to pretend that someone like James Lindsay isn't educated.

01:06:22.740 He obviously is.

01:06:23.680 It wouldn't be foolish to pretend that he is not intelligent in some capacity.

01:06:27.440 That is.

01:06:28.160 But, you know, there are plenty of intelligent people who are extremely wrong, you know, and there's a certain level of wrong that you need to be a credentialed, you know, guy to really achieve.

01:06:39.160 And James has most certainly cleared that hurdle.

01:06:41.680 So, you know, I'm sure that, you know, he's done some good work and whatever good work he's done, then by all means, you know, I support that.

01:06:49.780 But obviously, that is not the core.

01:06:51.520 That's not what, you know, again, it's Sam Harris, Bill Maher, same same thing.

01:06:55.860 Like, sure, every once in a while, they say something that's true.

01:06:57.940 When they do, that's great.

01:06:59.100 Vast majority of the time, they hate you. 1.00

01:07:00.720 They want you dead. 0.91

01:07:01.780 And he has studied the blade. 0.94

01:07:03.500 It's it's I've I've heard that to be true.

01:07:06.820 So death says Oregon's tentacles grow everywhere.

01:07:10.720 Help.

01:07:11.080 Yes.

01:07:11.380 My my grand conspiracy becomes stronger every day.

01:07:16.780 The jackals of Tara are Argentium, I guess they're a bit of a misleading title there or a man can't lose what he never had to begin with.

01:07:26.500 Fair.

01:07:27.120 Though, again, like, I'm sure at some point, James was a relatively sane person, probably.

01:07:32.000 But he I think I think I feel like ultimately, he has driven himself to this point.

01:07:37.540 I think that's a fair understanding of it. 0.98

01:07:40.500 Tiny stupid decent says it's Gnosticism all the way down. 0.99

01:07:43.540 Yes. 1.00

01:07:43.960 Yes, indeed.

01:07:47.520 Philosophical thirst worms says this is provincial and conspiratorial to bring up Israel influence, but it's based and lib pill to bring up Indo-Aryan theophysis demons. 0.90

01:07:58.100 Yeah, there's yeah, let's just say if you played Mad Libs and switched out all of James Lindsay's most hated things with another group's most hated things, you would probably end up, you know, getting immediately fired from everything and censored from everything.

01:08:12.800 But he accused Catholics of it.

01:08:14.360 So it's fine.

01:08:14.980 Yeah, that's the same conspiracy.

01:08:16.640 But he mad lipped a different religion in there.

01:08:19.540 So he he's good.

01:08:20.920 Aramaic Discourse says, all I do now is to respond to James Lindsay is post prayers and Bible quotes.

01:08:29.260 Yeah, I assume that'll get you banned.

01:08:30.540 He bans pretty much everyone for everything.

01:08:32.880 But but by all means, you should still pray for him.

01:08:35.400 Yes, this is true.

01:08:36.400 Absolutely.

01:08:39.200 Chandler Barrett says, astrology for centrist really is hitting hard.

01:08:43.320 Sure is, he says, and I thought I was schizo.

01:08:49.300 Yeah, you can't you can't keep pace again when when when Nick Land is like, oh, dude, that's that's around the bend for me.

01:08:56.680 Then you've you've officially cleared the bar.

01:09:00.060 Newgloff says the spell, the spells of the Zoroastrian demon Armon are forcing me to go to the farmer's market tomorrow.

01:09:06.940 Can Lindsay save me from their regionalism nightmare?

01:09:10.800 Yes, the evil incantation that will drive you to build a community that is self-reliant.

01:09:19.200 Genja Blob Flankus, I get to say all the fun words today.

01:09:23.260 He made his name writing buzzword riddled gobbledygook papers to laugh at his local.

01:09:28.320 Now it's what he does.

01:09:29.500 Same level of cue tards in tweet form. 1.00

01:09:31.740 Yeah, that that is that is very good observation.

01:09:35.340 He made he became famous by like laundering a bunch of a bunch of woke nonsense into academic language and then getting that past a bunch of people.

01:09:46.620 And it's literally what he's doing now.

01:09:48.180 He's just taking a bunch of insane stuff that he's trying to use to smear people he hates.

01:09:53.040 And he's laundering it through a language and hoping that people think that that sounds in some way intelligent or elevated.

01:09:58.860 And therefore, they won't notice what he's trying to do there.

01:10:02.300 But when it gets this crazy, it's it's kind of hard not to notice.

01:10:05.340 Yeah.

01:10:07.620 Thuggo says regime apparatchiks always practice credentialism.

01:10:10.900 Yeah, 100 percent.

01:10:11.980 James Lindsay is not against the system.

01:10:13.880 He's not against the regime.

01:10:15.060 He doesn't oppose anything that's happening here.

01:10:16.980 He just wants it to happen slower.

01:10:18.960 He just wants it to happen at the pace that he agreed with when he was a fan of it in the 90s.

01:10:23.120 That's it.

01:10:23.660 That's all there is to it.

01:10:26.480 K.N. says mathematics like or mathematicians like James do deserve our respect.

01:10:31.040 It's hard to explain to word cells.

01:10:32.760 But without math or mastering foreign language, you're not smart.

01:10:36.380 I mean, fair enough.

01:10:37.720 Again, I'm not I'm not I don't know if I agree 100 percent with that.

01:10:41.580 But, you know, again, I believe James Lindsay is an intelligent guy.

01:10:44.820 He's, you know, done done work that I could not do in the realm of math.

01:10:49.840 But, you know, that that is not wisdom, as James is displaying quite, quite clearly there.

01:10:56.020 And the point I'm making about mathematicians isn't just saying like he's not heard that it's the reductio ad absurdium bit here.

01:11:02.760 Like you have a particular way of looking at things.

01:11:04.720 And math is probably one of the best ways to look at the world and to understand how certain concepts can work.

01:11:09.280 But when you're trying to apply it and also with the sort of your political and philosophical bent as a new atheist, I think it limits you significantly to maybe understanding the language or the abstractions that can be brought down from different sides.

01:11:22.040 Essentially, by stripping things of all their particularities or trying to bring things down to raw numbers or raw points of data, I think that you miss out a lot on either a nuance or be the particularities of what makes someone the way that they are.

01:11:33.880 And the groups that, you know, constitute certain political factions as someone who studies language on the side.

01:11:39.800 I've spent more time learning Greek than I'd like to admit over the last year and a half.

01:11:43.940 And I take classes regularly with a priest not too far from me.

01:11:47.720 I think that it's particularly important for you to learn a language and especially to know your math particularly well.

01:11:53.000 And it's a shame that we don't do that on a more public level and that the classics have been reduced to what they are.

01:11:57.280 But it's also proof, I think, for a lot of us that unless you're actively trying to keep an open mind where the roots of things come from and study them out, it can lead you down particularly bad rabbit holes.

01:12:08.880 And to quote the great Dr. Henry Hopwood Phillips, bad theology leads to really bad reality.

01:12:14.800 And I'm sorry, but James has some terrible theology as an atheist. 0.59

01:12:18.080 And that means that the reality that he's come to is literally what we covered on this Twitter.

01:12:21.920 Yeah, his grip on reality is exactly what you would expect from somebody who is not well grounded in truth.

01:12:30.060 Sorry, guys.

01:12:30.720 I know we have a lot of these.

01:12:32.220 And so I'm going to have to speed run them because I forgot that I'm up against a hard out here.

01:12:35.960 So I'm just going to go down as quickly as possible.

01:12:38.620 Thank you, everybody, for joining us and commenting.

01:12:42.420 Really appreciate it.

01:12:43.540 But like I said, I just need to get these quickly.

01:12:46.200 Robert Weinsfeld says, Lindsay is about a week away from calling me an Austrian painter disciple.

01:12:50.960 And I don't even like to paint.

01:12:54.180 Blue Wizard says, the intellectual poverty of James Lindsay revisited.

01:12:59.680 Which I believe was a stream we did with academic agent at some point.

01:13:06.540 Yeah, a long time ago.

01:13:07.980 Yeah.

01:13:08.860 Tiny Rick, woke right is so fetch.

01:13:12.140 I'm not a Zoomer.

01:13:13.060 I do not speak Zoomer, but I believe you.

01:13:14.900 He is referencing Mean Girls, which came out when you were in college.

01:13:18.080 Oh, geez, right.

01:13:19.200 Oh, wait.

01:13:19.660 Okay, wait.

01:13:20.260 All right.

01:13:20.500 That is, I guess, a millennial reference at this point.

01:13:23.020 I didn't.

01:13:23.340 Yeah.

01:13:23.560 Well, there.

01:13:24.100 It shows you what I remember from Mean Girls. 0.99

01:13:27.340 Kayan, who is more loony, Lindsay or Orthobros who suddenly discover that they care about the 0.99

01:13:31.780 phililoquy?

01:13:33.440 Well, probably both to some extent.

01:13:35.340 They should have their head more grounded in reality.

01:13:37.280 But if you're trying to attack me on it, good luck.

01:13:39.540 It's not something I post publicly about.

01:13:42.600 Aramaic discourse.

01:13:43.780 What are our orders, great Catholic cult leader?

01:13:46.440 As the Southern Baptist leader of this Catholic cult, I must say, quite an amazing operation 1.00

01:13:53.040 I was managed to pull out.

01:13:54.540 Let's see.

01:13:56.860 I'm going to skip that one there just to be careful with the YouTube sensors.

01:14:00.560 But thank you, Han.

01:14:03.960 Simplar says, blessed St. Michael, protect us from cringe.

01:14:08.160 New, new patron saint just dropped.

01:14:10.980 He also says, James thought Canadian spiritual care too hard.

01:14:14.620 And also says, it's funny that the atheist is afraid of the angels he doesn't believe in.

01:14:22.380 Yes, that is, there's certainly a level of irony there.

01:14:25.520 The old joke, of course, is that an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God and is

01:14:29.060 very angry at him.

01:14:31.700 Let's see.

01:14:33.900 Matt Woodbridge says, can you speak about social emotional learning?

01:14:37.660 He's also doing good work on it, but now anything he said or will do is worthless.

01:14:41.800 I think he'll deserve kudos for a lot of his pre-schizo work.

01:14:45.780 Fair enough.

01:14:46.240 Again, social emotional learning is terrible.

01:14:49.760 It's a lot of the ways in which the school system is currently trying to reprogram your

01:14:53.440 child to basically believe in progressive secular humanism, which is a direct descendant

01:14:58.220 of James Lindsay's ideology, even though he doesn't want to admit it.

01:15:01.820 And so they are basically teaching you to break from your parents' beliefs, your parents'

01:15:06.700 ideas, your parents' morals.

01:15:07.800 And it's basically a higher order of state indoctrination.

01:15:12.440 We could go into deeper detail.

01:15:13.740 Maybe at some point we'll do an episode on that as well.

01:15:16.620 But that's the short.

01:15:18.140 Yeah, and it's not just promoted in education.

01:15:20.480 It's promoted in virtually every NGO that focuses on education, child care, et cetera.

01:15:25.000 It's a big part of it all.

01:15:26.740 Gotcha.

01:15:27.180 I only know it from the education side.

01:15:29.740 Seneca says, I went to Catholic school, opinion discarded.

01:15:33.420 Like I said, unfortunately, I grew up Catholic, but didn't pay anything attention to what Catholics

01:15:38.140 actually believe is all too often a real thing.

01:15:41.600 Thumbler comes back and says, will you be summoning Michael to deliver a cigar to AA this

01:15:45.420 spring?

01:15:45.960 There is zero chance that AA is winning that bet.

01:15:49.460 He has lost quite convincingly.

01:15:51.940 And I will free him from the horrible, dystopian country of the United Kingdom when he comes

01:16:01.220 to Florida to deliver me my cigar.

01:16:03.640 He'll get a reprieve from the Starmer Reich over there.

01:16:07.800 Glow in the Dark says, if you worship the state or state institutions, doesn't that de facto

01:16:12.360 mean that you are socialist?

01:16:14.040 James, stop being the socialist of versus if you say others are.

01:16:17.680 All right, guys, we're going to wrap this up.

01:16:19.660 Thank you, everyone, again, for coming by.

01:16:21.660 It has been a blast.

01:16:23.400 We'll be back to our normal Nick Land posting here next time.

01:16:28.980 But for now, I'm glad you took us or you traveled with us on this detour into the mind

01:16:33.760 of James Lindsay.

01:16:35.080 It's an interesting and scary place, but it is one that I felt was worth the time to explore

01:16:40.140 since he was aiming those accusations directly at me.

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01:17:01.780 And of course, if you'd like to pick up my book, The Total State, which explains several

01:17:05.960 of the things we've discussed today, including James Lindsay's Absolute Addiction to Institutions.

01:17:10.380 You can pick that up on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, or preferably your own local

01:17:15.140 bookstore so you're not feeding in to those very large institutions.

01:17:18.420 Thank you everybody for watching.

01:17:19.660 And as always, I will talk to you next time.

The Auron MacIntyre Show - October 04, 2024

James Lindsay Has Lost His Mind ｜ Guest： The Prudentialist ｜ 10⧸4⧸24

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