Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where we do a short

bullet point-like summary of a single topic relevant to woke that we all need to know so we

can beat it. I want to talk today about this idea. It's actually I got this from a friend of mine, Michael Malice. A lot of you will have heard of him. Some of you will not have heard of him. Interesting thinker for sure. But he had a great observation that I want to share with you and I'm going to build off of it, talk about it. And what he said was, and I think it's incredibly important, I think you're going to feel this very prominently, especially if you spend time online in political discourse spaces right now. What he said is that most people do not process information through a true false filter. Most people process

information through an us, them filter. So they agree with things that their tribe believes,

and they disagree with what the enemy tribes or other tribes or outsider tribes believe regardless of whether it's true or

false.

Now there are a lot of reasons to see that this is extremely important right now.

Obviously we see this behavior.

Pick your favorite topic, whether it's your favorite Super Bowl halftime show, whether it's,

you know, this guy did that,

the other guy did the other thing, you know, is ICE right, is the, or the Minnesota people

wrong? Like, was Don Lemon right or wrong? Is the guy at the church right or wrong? Like,

it doesn't really matter what the issue is. In fact, you know, we often quote from David Horowitz and his famous remark of the

students for democratic society, which was that their philosophy is that the issue is never the

issue. The issue is always the revolution. And the issue is never the issue. The issue is often the conflict of tribes. It's us versus them.

It's oppressor versus oppressed. It's this class versus that class, this group versus that group.

And it's friend versus enemy if you want. It's those who are loyal versus those who must be disavowed.

If you catch my meaning, it's the people

versus the enemies of the people. And we see this tribalism take over almost every single

discussion of any political relevance online. It's exhausting. It's frustrating. And obviously,

what you see is that the truth just washes out. A friend of mine sent me

a message earlier today when I'm recording this that said something like, this is how I see

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