Left and Right with Society in the Balance | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Saving American Liberty, Session 3 What are "Left" and "Right," politically? Where does political extremism come from, on both sides? These are crucially important questions in our present era of extreme polarization that only seems to be increasing past any sense of a possible limit. To address these questions in a deep and fresh way, from August 22-23, 2025, in Dallas, Texas, New Discourses was proud to host a learning seminar event called Saving American Liberty, featuring talks from New Discourses founder James Lindsay and the founder of Sovereign Nations and New Discourses partner, Michael O'Fallon. In this third talk of the seminar, Lindsay puts some foundation under the confusing terms "Left" and "Right," which have strayed quite a bit from their origins in the French Revolution. He then explains a second dimension of political orientation as being located in metaphysical realism versus idealism. Using the metaphor of a pair of scales, or a balance, he makes a case for a healthy politics, Left and Right, as compared to pathological, extremist politics, Left and Right, that seek to destroy everything from their idealist mania. Join him to gain depth and clarity on this important subject. The other lectures in this series can be found here: Session 1: https://youtu.be/4u2ak-DmKD4 Session 2: https://youtu.be/gUiLUmZWsc4 Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #leftandright

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome back to the long talk.
0:17.0	According to my notes, we'll see how long they actually all run. This one has no
0:22.2	clips to distract me, but we have more clips in the future. So it's very good. Mike gave us the
0:30.5	big picture just now, and this talk is titled Left and Right with Society and the Balance. So
0:36.6	the big picture that he just painted requires polarization
0:40.4	in them to basically have the pendulum, as we say, swing back and forth.
0:45.7	What they can't get through a movement to the left,
0:48.1	they'll get through a movement to the right,
0:49.5	and then when that one fizzles out, they'll swing back left,
0:52.0	and we all kind of know how that works,
0:54.1	but the idea
0:54.6	is that they're working together. That was the scissors thing earlier. And if we're going to talk
1:00.4	about woke left, woke right, which is the other two talks I'm doing, if he's going to talk
1:04.5	about tomorrow integralism on the left and on the right, we've got to talk about left and right.
1:10.7	And this is a confusing issue.
1:12.3	Like I already kind of in my previous talk referenced the idea, but you might not, and if you
1:17.0	are one of these, I'm not like upset about it. I only get upset on social media about this.
1:22.3	If you don't like the term woke right, I don't care. It is an intrinsically confusing term on a certain level. I think it's
1:29.7	actually kind of clear. It's, you know, people who say they're on the right who act woke. I don't
1:35.9	think it's that tricky, but I understand why. And what's, the reason why is it's embedded in this
1:42.1	idea of leftism and rightism being different things.
1:47.0	Now one thing that might be a new, I don't know how often I'll say that word, but you are probably
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