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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Contemplations #144 | Right-wing Wokeism: Part I

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Stelios discuss right-wing wokeism. They identify how sections of the right mirror the behaviour of the woke left.

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0:00.0

Hello and today we're going to be talking about right wing wokism

0:06.2

which isn't necessarily all about right wingers that count tell to wokism but merely

0:11.7

mirror their behavior.

0:13.3

And this is a term that we've used sort of internally

0:16.4

to refer to this sort of thing.

0:18.1

As we see it is counterproductive towards getting

0:22.0

any meaningful political change, which ultimately is what we all want, right?

0:26.8

And so this is going to be more of a cautionary tale.

0:29.6

We're not going to be lecturing people and telling them exactly what to do and how to

0:32.4

conduct themselves, but more

0:34.5

pointing out flaws in certain ways of conducting oneself, particularly when it comes to politics,

0:40.4

that might end up alienating people and preventing you from convincing people.

0:47.0

And that's ultimately the aim of this is to give you good advice,

0:51.0

to allow you to approach political rhetoric and that side of things more effectively because I think

0:58.4

we certainly could do with that. So I'm very pleased to have Stelios and thank you for having me.

1:05.0

That's all right, it's always a pleasure and I think that this is something that both of us are quite keen to talk about because we notice it all the time doing the job that we do and it does get

1:16.3

kind of annoying and aggravating doesn't it? I don't know how you feel about it more generally.

1:20.6

We are going to go into definitions and stuff, but just talking about our general impressions first.

1:25.0

I think it does because in general this kind of work culture is corrosive and it is corrosive of institutions that I believe are time tested and

1:36.9

have proved their value and it amazes me to watch people who have benefited from these institutions to be completely

1:47.4

unaware of their value, their history and to basically not care at all about preserving them.

1:54.0

Because for some reason, somewhere they heard a half truth

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