"Lived Experience," Explained

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 22 We've all heard it and done everything we can to avoid rolling our eyes now. "It's my lived experience!" as though that's evidence or, actually, even better than evidence. "Lived experience" is a particular result of Leftist dialectical thought, however, that allows them to convince people that whatever they say is right and whatever anyone else says is dumb or bad. It is, in fact, the dialectical synthesis of evidence and the Leftist phenomenological interpretation of the circumstances in which that evidence presents. It's even better than evidence, then, because while evidence is objective, "lived experience" is both objective and subjective at the same time, with the subjectivity coming from a place of higher consciousness. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets in which he breaks it down. Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay, welcome to another episode of new Discourses Bullets
0:15.4	where I'm going to break down one topic that you need to understand in a kind of bullet
0:20.0	point format regarding woke Marxism, which is of course what we're all fighting right
0:25.8	now. Today it's the concept of lived experience, which I'm sure you've heard of, and I'm sure
0:31.6	you've noticed that appeals to lived experience are a little bit one-sided. In other words,
0:38.3	when somebody promoting the woke Marxist ideology or some leftist ideology appeals to their
0:43.2	lived experience, when they say, you know, well, it's been my lived experience that XYZ.
0:48.8	That's not anecdotal evidence or just an anecdote. That's not only evidence, but better
0:54.7	than evidence. It's superior to evidence. In fact, here's an example. Way back in the day,
1:01.4	2000, I don't know, even 17 maybe, when Brett Weinstein was at Evergreen State College in
1:08.7	Washington, and it was about to melt down. It was a video that circulated, I've seen it several
1:13.7	times, where Brett is confronted by a number of angry students who claim that there's racism
1:19.7	on campus at his school, and Brett being a progressive and decent guy says, well, let's see the
1:26.7	evidence of this racism, and if there's evidence of the racism, I want to end it as much as you do.
1:33.0	And that sounds like a reasonable, bare thing to say, socially responsible thing to say,
1:39.0	but the response that he got from these very angry students was that he had committed a racism
1:44.6	by asking for evidence, because what they said was, if you lived it, you would know it.
1:51.2	Therefore, you asking for evidence proves you don't live it. The lived experience is actually not
1:57.6	just a kind of evidence, but a superior kind of evidence. So there's this one sidedness to it.
2:04.4	When they present lived experience, that's better than evidence. I saw today, for example, a video
2:11.2	of Don Lemon on CNN, and he was talking about Hurricane Ian as it barrels toward the
2:19.3	Western coast of Florida. So I guess that dates when I'm recording this. It's about to hit Florida
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