Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to the new Discourses podcast, and we're going to go back into the Book of Woke. I know we got a lot going on here at the podcast, just as a matter of a little bit of, I guess, housekeeping. We're doing a series on the Nazis for Hitler, basically, we're doing a series on the Communist Manifesto.

We got all kinds of other things going on.

I'm writing book reviews, who knows.

But I do have this book awoke thing going on, which is about the book called Critical

Constructivism, written by Joe Kinchelow.

It was published in 2005. Mr. Kinchelow died in 2008, I think,

or nine, something like that. And so he's no longer with us. But I call this the book of woke,

because in my opinion it codifies woke. And I've already done two episodes in this kind of

book of woke series.

I don't have to tell you the whole story, but long and short of it is that way back,

and I mean like in 2016 or 17, I was trying to communicate the problems of so-called social justice warriors to people.

And I stumbled upon this Wikipedia entry talking about something called critical,

constructivist epistemology credited to one Joe Kinchalo.

And I read it and I was like, oh my God, this is the thing.

Then later I find out there's a book by Kinchalo called Critical Constructivism detailing the entire idea.

I start calling it the book awoke.

I can't get my hands on it. I can't find a copy not easily.

And finally, our friend, Logan Lansing, manages to get a copy, which I still hold in my hands.

So it's not an easy book to get, and I'm grateful that he's allowed me to borrow it apparently indefinitely.

And I've done two episodes talking about critical constructivism so far.

And in both episodes, I've kind of alluded to, but I've never actually just done this.

So I decided a good episode would be to just do this.

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