Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay. You are listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a short

bullet point like summary of a topic related to woke that we need to understand so we can beat it.

And I want to talk about the three pillars that hold up our society.

A lot of times you've probably heard, you know, you need at least three legs to the stool, a two-legged stool won't stand.

A functioning society has to have three pillars at least.

It could have more. But I think there are three very fundamental ones. And I just

want to give a short argument for what they are and why they matter. And those three pillars,

for a long time, I thought there were just two. But I finally figured out actually in the wake of

Charlie Kirk's murder and seeing the outpouring from that and the transformation of our society that's actually kind of organically happening

because of it, I realized what the third one is. And I'm very happy to feel a more complete argument

because I knew the other part wasn't. So the three pillars, I think, of a functioning civilization or

society are truth, justice, and love. I just want to break these down very

quickly. Truth is obviously the most important. Truth is like the rock, right? If you want to be

running a society, even on just like a very simplest of society, out of alignment with the truth,

eventually the truth is going to catch up to you.

You can't evade the truth forever.

The truth, if you are wrong about it, will eventually teach you some kind of an important lesson.

I mean, it's very easy to come up with simple and silly examples.

Like if you believe for whatever reason that um you know you're you're invincible by

some magic ritual that you did and you decide to wander around in you know a war zone and bombs

are going off uh and you catch some some flack guess what you're going to be injured and probably

paralyzed or killed and that's's not, by the way,

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