Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to new discourses, Bullets, in which

I cover one topic relevant to woke Marxism and defeating it that I think we need to know.

In this episode, I am going to talk about a model of people, five different types of people.

This isn't meant to be an exhaustive model. This isn't meant to be the definitive model of

human beings or anything like that. But it is a model where the idea is that in some sense,

especially where kind of a movement or collection of movements might be concerned, you can kind of

identify five different types of people that are involved in it in one way or another or five

different relational modes to that movement. And that's what I want to talk about.

To put my cards on the table, I am deriving this or adapting what I'm giving you from a talk.

I recently listened to from Charles Eisenstein. So you can look up his work if you're interested.

I don't know, but he referenced in his remarks that he is into the philosopher Rene Gerard,

who is into kind of the way that I guess memes work in a sense, not exactly that. But the

words escaping me. So you have to deal with my post-COVID verbal recall struggles for the moment

and look up Rene Gerard on your own. So anyway, I want to talk about this model of kind of five

relational modes to what might be a movement. And just to put them out real quick, there are

these five types. And I'll define them afterwards so I can just name them. There are ring leaders,

there are strivers, there are normies, there are doubters, and there are rebels.

Okay, so the ring leaders are the people who are actually driving the agenda,

directing the agenda, probably making the agenda. They're the ones who are also pointing out

who the enemies are. Those people think the wrong way. These people are problematic, etc.

So the ring leaders are the people who are organizing the movement itself and that have

operational goals, usually they benefit themselves. They are typically people whether

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