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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating on your local takeaway, |
0:06.2 | the setting on your razor, and whether the party actually is fancy dress. |
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0:26.6 | See it in seconds. Download the Experian app today. |
0:30.0 | The process of trying to do the people's will in the face of all of these choke points of power |
0:34.7 | through which the woe rule, it's a new institutional |
0:38.3 | consensus. This seems like the movement that flies away from evidence. It has used the container |
0:44.1 | of science magazine, nature magazine, to infiltrate all of this propaganda. In my view, to make |
0:50.9 | a false thing true, would mean that we no longer live in a liberal pluralistic |
0:55.9 | society where there is both a right to belief and a right to unbelief. |
1:01.6 | Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spikes. I'm absolutely thrilled to be joined by |
1:06.0 | Wesley Yang, author of The Souls of Yellow Folk and the editor of the Year Zero Substack. Welcome, Wesley. |
1:12.4 | Hi, thanks. |
1:13.9 | Wesley, you've coined a really interesting phrase, the successor ideology, which, I don't |
1:19.4 | know, if I was going to be broad, it sums up sort of wokeness, I guess you could say. |
1:23.5 | Why do you pick those terms, and what of the implications of it? |
1:27.6 | It didn't quite get off the launching pad, so I still refer to it as kind of my own private jargon. |
1:32.9 | And, you know, it seems that the world has converged upon wokeness to describe this phenomenon. |
1:38.9 | But, you know, some years back before we had a real lexicon, it was clear there was a kind of, you know, hyper-liberalism |
1:48.8 | and various attempts to name this new, this ideology in a new key that had emerged. And this |
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