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We Have Never Been Woke / Musa al-Gharbi

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi returns to discuss his new book, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite," published just today by Princeton University Press. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Musa's book here: https://musaalgharbi.com/we-have-never-been-woke-available-now/ Musa is currently on a book tour. Check out the dates here: https://musaalgharbi.com/book-tour-we-have-never-been-woke/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

You're going to be here. The Lord is with the

0:14.0

with the

0:15.0

work with our power

0:16.0

and the water

0:18.0

Take a job. The This is hell.

0:38.0

Hell. Noam Chomsky said this is hell is.

0:50.0

Sanity and talk radio, which is yet another reminder to all of us that Noam is a linguist and not a psychiatrist

0:58.6

This is hell and this week here on the show increasingly scary sheriffs in the United States

1:06.1

are organizing which is frightening as hell if you enjoy exercising your freedoms of speech and

1:11.3

assembly especially in our era of climate change.

1:16.4

But we'll get to all that later, as first we will discuss being woke or not?

1:24.0

And how to be honest, we have never been woke.

1:26.7

Whatever the hell woke means, that is,

1:28.8

whoever even claims to be woke for that matter.

1:31.3

Well, according to our guest, symbolic capitalists often claimed to be woke,

1:35.3

embracing social justice while continuing to benefit from a system of exploitation that is at the heart

1:42.2

of all of our social injustices, as we will learn shortly.

1:48.2

You and I may both be symbolic capitalists.

1:51.8

Our guest writes, these capitalists include those who do non-manual work

1:56.2

associated with the production and manipulation of data, rhetoric, social perceptions

2:00.8

and relations and

2:04.0

art and entertainment, traditions and innovations and so forth.

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