Hello and welcome to the new discourses podcast, this is James Lindsay and I'm going to start

tying a bow up for you. I'm going to start explaining a little bit of the kind of bigger picture

around wokeness. This is just one aspect of a bigger picture. Don't worry, I'm not going to turn

into a conspiracy theory that's not the goal here. But I do want to communicate something to you

that I've said before and I kind of want to draw it out a little bit. I want to make it clear

what's going on. I've said before for example that critical theory is a totalizing ideology. I wrote

in my essay about psychopathy and the origins of totalitarianism that the critical theory ideology

is totalizing. In other words it's objective is to take over every aspect of life.

I've also made the argument for example on Twitter and this is kind of a funny little argument

that I was making that I could create the critical theory of anything by taking any existing

critical theory and then just changing out the domain specific jargon. So I could take a critical

theory say I could dip into at one point did a review of critical nutrition studies.

Of course there has to be a critical theory of nutrition studies. So I could take critical

nutrition studies, lay out the basic structure of how they made their argument and let's say I

wanted to make a critical theory of math education. So what I have to do now is I take out the domain

specific terminology around nutrition studies, substitute in the domain specific terminology

for math education. In any stories that I tell that are specific to nutrition I then pick one

out of math education. Any detail I give about the way that say nutritionists from particular

backgrounds are ignored. I take that out and I say that students of particular backgrounds are

underserved. And otherwise everything's the same. Everything's the same. There's a Latin phrase

for this. I used to use a lot when I was doing mathematics which is meutatus meutatus. So you

know change out x for y meutatus meutatus make all the necessary changes that you would naturally

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