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Understanding Reflexive Environments

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 79 A magic word for Woke Marxists and their shrewd handlers is "reflexivity." Reflexivity is the energy that makes revolutions go. Most of us, since we're not wizards who want to manipulate society to our own ends, don't think in reflexive terms, and so we not only fail to recognize the use of reflexive political warfare tactics against us, we also tend to fall for them. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay introduces the concept of reflexivity. Join him to learn to recognize the building of reflexive potential, the explosion into a reflexive environment, and what you can do about it. Get James Lindsay's book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Reflexivity

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's James Lindsey you're listening to another exciting episode of

0:14.3

new discourse is bullets where I give a bullet point type summary of one single topic

0:18.5

from woke Marxism that you need to understand so we can beat it we got to talk

0:21.8

about reflexivity so I don We got to talk about reflexivity. So I don't want to talk about

0:24.5

reflexivity like all out reflexivity but the short version of

0:28.4

reflexivity is when everybody has to talk about certain things and in a

0:31.6

certain way you're in a reflexive environment

0:34.7

where if you're not talking about it it becomes a subject of conversation that you're not talking about

0:40.4

it why hasn't so-and-so commented on what so-and-so's take why hasn't so and so commented on what so and so's take, why are they so silent?

0:44.8

A reflexive environment is one where everybody has to talk about a certain thing.

0:48.9

That thing is going to be very polarizing and they're either going to be one or two right ways to talk about it usually

0:54.2

that are going to be diametrically opposed to one another and that means it's a

0:59.5

dialectical weapon. When George Soros famously shorted the pound sterling in like 92 or whatever, which led to him

1:08.0

writing the alchemy of finance where he said the alchemy is not interested in truth like the scientific

1:13.2

method it's interested in operational success the method he said that they used to do

1:18.7

the alchemy of finance was reflexivity the idea is that you start ginning up an idea and make the idea

1:26.2

becomes true because everybody starts talking about it and believing it in a

1:29.9

particular way. So the current thing takes place in a reflexive

1:36.1

environment. What do I mean by that for the Fore Normi still listening to my

1:40.0

podcast that don't know what the current thing is? Whatever the big active measure, whether it's we've

1:44.7

all got to talk about Ukraine war right now. We've all got to talk about COVID-19 right now or vaccines or

1:51.4

masks or two masks masks whatever that breathless thing is BLM do you

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