Radical Ideology as Therapy for the Humiliated Psyche

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 207 Radical ideologies have many things in common. Among them, it increasingly seems apparent, is a psychological structure that can only be described as psychopathological. In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores the interesting idea that perhaps what these radical ideologies are all ultimately answering is a profound sense of humiliation (without humility). By surveying ideologies ranging from Russian weirdo Aleksandr Dugin's "geopolitics" and "neo-Eurasianism," to Nazism, to Fascism, to Islamism, to Communism, to Neo-Marxism, to Third Worldism, to Woke, both Left and Right, Lindsay makes a convincing case that these ideologies are pseudoscientific mythologies organized to provide therapy to the humiliated psyche, thus their destructiveness. Using the model, he also offers an answer and a bright ray of hope for a light to lead us out of this darkness. Join him for an eye-opening discussion. Join us for the Preserving Liberty Conference at Sea!: https://ndcruise.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 © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #ideology

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0:00.0	This November 15th through 22nd,
0:04.0	2026, we're going round trip out of Tampa, Florida, to all kinds of cool Caribbean locations.
0:10.0	And we're going to have on board lectures every day.
0:14.0	This is the New Discourses Preserving Liberty Conference at Sea.
0:18.0	I hope that you will join me and Michael O'Fallon and the whole team
0:22.3	and everybody that loves new discourses to have great conversations, to get to know each other,
0:27.4	to have a little bit of a vacation, to learn a little bit about the things that we talk about
0:31.3	here at new discourses, you know, the whole nine yards. So to get set up, to get all the information
0:36.6	that you need to sign up, you need to go to
0:38.9	ND Cruise.com. That is ND for new discourses, ND Cruise.com. Everything's there. We'll see you
0:49.0	on board. Hey, everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to the new discourses podcast.
1:15.9	And I want to explore an idea with you that I think is profound. It has profound implications.
1:23.3	I know I say this sometimes, but I, you know, I think this one's a big deal.
1:26.3	So I'm working through this., but I, you know, I think this one's a big deal. So I'm working through
1:28.4	this. This is a relatively new thought. It's dipping outside of my strict field of expertise,
1:36.3	which is to study ideologies and tell you what they mean, dipping into maybe even the
1:41.5	psychological motivations under them. I think in fact that all of these
1:45.5	ideologies are psychologically motivated and psychopathologically motivated as a matter of fact.
1:52.1	You can see that I talked about that when I sat down in spring, late spring of 25 with Jordan
1:59.9	Peterson. We talked about the woke right, but really we
2:04.0	mostly talked about the relevance of psychopathy to woke or parasitic ideological constructs.
2:11.6	And so where I'm at, what's going on here? And I'm not going to do a ton with this right now.
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