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Hey there everybody, it's James Lindsay, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast

and it's time we start talking a little more clearly, I suppose, about what's going

on in America and the West today and the, what do we mean by the West, by the way, what

I mean specifically, although it extends more further, further than this, more broadly

is largely, we would think the English speaking West, but it's places that have been heavily

influenced and touched by the English or and or Scottish enlightenment, so a lot of us

would associate that with almost Americanism, but it's roots are back in English common

law in the sense of personal liberties, and what we're undergoing in these places is

a cultural revolution, and this has been a point I've been raising for literally three

or four years, in February 2020, which is three years ago now, is before George Floyd,

in fact, almost three months to the day before George Floyd died, and the kind of kinetic

portion of the American Cultural Revolution kicked off, I met with a number of officials

in Washington, DC, including some Department of Defense officials, and asked them if they

were aware that we were entering into kind of the phase that precedes a act of cultural

revolution, and that it would probably arise through critical race theory within six months

of February 2020, it turned out that three months later at the end of May 2020 George

Floyd died, and that's precisely what happened, I needless to say was not taken seriously

at the time, so at the point I've been raising for a while kind of excitingly, I suppose,

because it's finally going to start to mainstream at the time of this recording, just the other

day Bill Mar, which is a show called Real Time, or something like that, you know, it's

sort of like mainstream dissident left sort of, you know, material, he talked about it,

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