Hello everyone, I'm James Lindsay, you're listening to The New Discourses Podcast.

One of the things I like to do, or I think, has become very important for me to do here in New

Discourses, is to convey to you not just what wokeness is as a kind of world view or philosophy,

but also not just what it is, how it thinks, how it misuses language, that's what the social

assistance cycle PDF is about, but also to give you this clear sense that this isn't

some new aberration.

This isn't something that just came out of the ground in June last year after George Floyd

died, or in 2015 with some college professors and kids going crazy that slowly built up.

This is in fact a much longer project, and there are consistent themes, and so what I kind

of want to show you is that the intellectual and philosophical and activist precursors to

wokeness all contain these same kinds of ideas, the same patterns that these patterns

didn't just come out of the ground, that this is actually an entire genus of bad thought.

Wokeness is one species, Marxism is another species.

If we get more specifically within Marxism, we can actually look at Leninism, that's a

species, Stalinism, that's a species, Cameroche, that's a species, Maoism, that's a species.

We can look at lots of the things throughout the history, especially of the 20th century,

but also some of the things of the 19th century.

And see a clear pattern, that these things are, they share many things in common.

So recently, here on the podcast, I had what I thought was a very important episode,

something I'd really been wanting to do for a while, I wanted to talk about how wokeness

is represents, but also arises from a long history of people with particular lines,

of especially left wing thought, having a crisis of authenticity.

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