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Sand in the Gears

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 48 One of the most powerful tactics against totalitarianism, one that worked to stop regimes from taking over and that broke existing regimes from within, is the simple strategy of "throwing sand in the gears," as it's said. What this means is going out of your way to make their programs bulky, slow, dysfunctional, and inefficient by deliberately underperforming, asking difficult questions, speaking up, and getting in the way. Do your job, if you must, but do it inefficiently as an act of "strategic resistance." Drag your feet. Make mistakes. Play dumb. Ask hard questions, both pertinent and impertinent while you can. Point out abuses. Spread information. Become sand in the gears of their machine and help grind it to a halt. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets to learn more about this powerful strategy. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #antiwoke

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0:00.0

Hey there everybody it's James Lindsay and you're listening to new Discourses Bullets.

0:15.0

It's a short form podcast where I give you a quick summary or bullet point type summary

0:20.0

so to speak of a single topic from Oak Marxism that you need to understand so that we

0:24.7

can beat it.

0:25.7

And we're going to beat this, this is a topic of today actually is how do we beat

0:29.9

this.

0:30.9

It comes up all the time and I want to say you know a lot of people want big sweeping

0:37.5

almost miraculous Hail Mary solutions and I think there are some things out there that

0:41.3

could actually fit the bill or do large amounts of damage to the program.

0:46.4

One of those I don't know that all the fallout would be perfect.

0:49.6

I advocate for it anyway but I think they're getting woke properly classified as a form

0:56.9

of religious instruction under establishment clause.

1:01.0

So first amendment jurisprudence would do a lot.

1:04.4

We get the Supreme Court to decide that woke and even Marxism really are religions as

1:09.3

they should have always been classified.

1:10.6

In fact they are cult religions.

1:12.7

We get them to identify that and it's out of the public schools basically tomorrow.

1:18.9

So sad school choice lobby because then you won't have any ground for your policy proposal

1:25.8

because it's really the main reason people want it.

1:28.7

If it would be out of the military basically tomorrow it would be out of government agencies.

1:34.1

It would be very obvious that when Joe Biden puts out an executive order calling for equity

1:39.9

to be forced into every facet of the federal government that that's not just a establishment

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