Don't forget to subscribe! And if you like my work, please consider supporting me on Locals where you'll get more content - travisbrown.locals.com I misspelled the source of the opening quote - it should read Saul D. Alinksy, hence the blur I added. I had gone months without sleeping much, so I sometimes made mistakes.
The irony of telling people that everything is a construct and only a means to gain power while simultaneously telling people that you are the enlightened one who can tell them what is actually true...
From 30 years ago, these people engaged in an echo chamber of peer review to give their works the appearance of legitimacy. They never gave their work to anyone outside those circles under the auspices that these other scholars are critiquing work based on oppressive knowledge contracts and therefore couldn't give due and unbiased evaluation of such works.... absolute garbage. These woke scholars knew they built a man of straw ideology which could be burnt to the ground by centuries of tried and true philosophical and political thought. To them, it was a question of playing for power in academia. Well, they got that power and have screwed things up monumentally but are not accepting accountability or responsibility for any of their actions.
The great thing about finding fault in every gesture and utterance is you can focus on the perceived short comings of others ,avoiding the need for introspection in your own life.
Exactly, avoid the long hard and painful work of unpicking your own psyche and trauma because there is no instant gratification involved. Social media and reality TV appear to have become mass tools of indoctrination and integrity and self-responsibility have all but disappeared in the latest generation of young adults.
The only thing I don’t care for when I hear people criticize woke culture is that as an advocate of wokeness I start to notice my crown start to slide a bit when I’m criticized.
When one sees evil as a virtue to pursue, creation and the image of god can't be anything but evil in every thing. That's why their religion has no good, only bad, redemption is destruction, sin is existence itself.
I "shouldn't" address a crowd as ladies and gentlemen ? 😳 Anyone who tries to control the words coming out of my mouth is Not going to like me Say what you want; You will find the right people to hang out with When you lie to yourself about who you are, you lose everything and wind up feeling very lonely Be true to you. Don’t let anyone control your words. Stand together, stand strong 💪🏼
These young woke kids that promote to give up manhood has no idea what the heck the real world looks like. Wait until we go to war…who are they going to call for help to save their ass. Sad
“The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.” - Leonard Peikoff, 1983
This was a great overview on the origins of the popular social theories of our day that’s often called woke ideology. The only way around these issues is to understand them. Once we understand them then we can see where it’s applied and not play by their rules while being better examples and more rigorous thinkers. The tragedy of critical race theory and many other postmodern inspired theories of today is they limit the potential of their subscribers by making everything about power and prejudice. The signal productions, you’re doing some phenomenal work. Can’t wait to see episode two!
OR . . .you could just physically look around you and see how the town you live in developed. Explain why black areas always seem to lag behind. Why is that? See, we get so caught up in MARX, CRT, POSTMODERNISM, and all the other intellectual master bastion that we fail to ask " how did this happen"? Who had the power when all this came about. All the supposed intellectual labels, IMO, seem to be an attempt to glaze over the simple mistreatment of others. You enslaved or you didn't. You subjugated or you didn't. We don't need Karl Marx to explain to us why Chauvin killed George Floyd.
@Jota Lhão 88% of whites are killed by other whites? You ever watch 48 Hours, 20/20, or Snapped? It's not the murders. It's the historic, systemic mistreatment.
@@noeltaylor3594 You obviously know nothing about slavery and the subjugation of other humans.Slavery only became race dependent when technology,ships and navigation,enabled the transportation of Africans to the Americas,incidentally more African slaves went to Brazil than the British colonies.Africa had a thriving slave trading that allowed Africans to enslave other Africans and that availability supplied the Americas with the human resource they sought. The history of slavery is ancient and it has always revolved around the strong enslaving the weak and available ,race and “racism” played little part.
She does have a beautiful voice, and it’s not racist 😝. I also love Dave Chappelle’s voice, The Dali Lama’s voice, and especially for some reason Neil Degrass Tyson’s voice, Bob Marley’s and a ton of different people who’s energy vibe is just awesome. Color of skin doesn’t affect how pleasant sounding someone’s tone can be 💗🧬💎🧬💗
@@jennw5052 And Blacks have also been a major TARGET for the victimizing lies of the White Progressive Socialist Machine. Malcolm X heavily warned Black Americans about this extremely dangerous trap but his warnings have largely, been suppressed by Black Hate Profiteers and White Progressive Elites. Their lies must be exposed in order for Blacks to move forward. Is there a correlation between fatherless young black males and crime? To deny what the stats undeniably show is to be living in the lies of the aforementioned groups. Why did the fatherless rate among Blacks explode post 1960s? Who did it and why? Malcolm X was 100% right!
The origins of woke ideology (the ideas) go back 60 years at least. Consider these early 1960s books. All of them key to the movements they inspired. All of these movements with overlapping support. 1961: 'Madness and Civilization', by Michel Foucault 1961: 'The Myth of Mental Illness', by Thomas Szasz 1962: 'Silent Spring', by Rachel Carson 1963: 'The Feminine Mystique', by Betty Friedan. Insprired by Simone de Beauvoir's 1949: 'The Second Sex'; The Second Sex came in 2 volumes. Volume 2 was titled: 'Lived Experience'! Thank you Feminism!, for giving us "lived experience". You made the trans-rights movement, whom you now accuse of 'misogyny'. The earliest citation for “lived experience” is from a 1889 Australian feminist magazine: “all these subjects are open to discussion, suggestion and action, upon the ground of lived experience”. BTW: I wouldn't advise anyone not to read these books above; but as you do, please fact-check them. So, given the ideas are so old, the question is "Why Now?"; Why only in the last decade?
@@SDS-ee9jsThe "long march through the institutions" as advocated by Herbert Marcuse came to fruition. The indoctrinated students left university and entered acafemia and the workplace. Then the WEF and various activist groups began bribing (and thrratening) companies into adopting Critical Theory/Woke policies.
@@SDS-ee9js I remember 'Myth of Mental Illness' after I got sectioned, lol. Its not a myth, but can be used as a form of oppression. These days it's used to cover up Jihadism. Still used,
Animation is great, well done. I freaked out a little when I saw that "All opression is connected" infographic, because I used to share it on social media 🥺
Absolutely brilliant. Having read the book Cynical Theories, and I'm on my second read through, this is a great peek into what the book describes in great detail. Excellent video. Will share as much as possible.
so, essentially nihilism. Neo lib sentiments seem to always find their logical end there. If anyone disagrees or can expound otherwise or for it Id love to hear it. This is an important issue to discuss
@@becomethesignal I assume by liberal you mean classical liberal, but correct me if I'm wrong. My distinction of neo lib essentially means hard left (collectivism, marxism et al), whom are nigh to if not comprehensively illiberal. I appreciate your work. You and your colleagues are literally healing agents/fighting force against a societal and intellectual cancer
@@becomethesignal I am a Conservative, but I see the difference between Liberalism an Conservatism are mostly those of degree and method, cost and effect. Both seek to improve the society. CT see our very concept of culture as a false narrative. It wish to wipe away our culture and replace it with a shiny dream of their own making. This should be stopped. I love our culture, and would hate to see it thrown away. Perhaps we Conservatives and Liberals could see an end put to the advancements of CT. What do you say?
@@wardkerr2456 improve the society by maintaining what has been demonstrably good and exploring new ideas without destroying the old ones. I think the reason why society is going mad is because the moment a nation decides "we don't need God" then it enters a spiral of self destruction
Great start to understanding this quagmire of intertwined ideologies. I’m watching it a few times and just ordered Cynical Theories for the drill down.
GREAT!!! I've been waiting for this series! My notifications never came through, funny that, but not the first time. Thanks guys for putting this together...WE NEED THIS SO MUCH!!!
Having read Cynical Theories, this was a pretty standard opening description. I think that Critical Race Theorists specifically can dispute ties to Postmodernism. Hell, they’re even disputing ties to Bell’s (who claims to not have read Marx) Legal Studies, which can be proven in Krenshaw’s own work. No matter how opponents of Critical Theories define (or fail to define it) It’s dangerous stuff. There’s no place in any of our institutions for this nonsense. Excited for part 2!
I actually read into post modernism before I looked into Marxist theory, so it's been a while since I read any post modernist theory. I remember thinking it was really odd that the pro-Marxist lecturers I had were the ones who told me not to read post-modernism because it was "a waste of time", yet the form the seemed to discuss was heavily influenced by it. When I finally started reading though Marxism (Oh god, Marx and Engels are boring and terrible writers) and how that evolved into critical theory, post-modernist theory really did just seem like a logical progression. My degree was fine arts and it was a while ago, so I can't imagine how obtuse and groomy it would be now.
So people is arguing about the origin of obscure ideological bullshit trying to understand from where comes what and all of that and getting into fights because of it... man this is exactly how imagined early christians arguing about obscure religious bullshit... I can already see how all of this will bring the end of the empire and a lot of violence and death.
People's beliefs are not entiirely shaped by discourses because most part of our beliefs are shaped by one's everyday experiences. When discourses are totally out-of-touch with the everyday reality that people were facing, they failed.
I'm looking forward to seeing the other episodes. I just read Cynical Theories and really enjoyed it. I recently came across Stephen Hicks. So, if you also read cynical theories and enjoyed it I'd implore you to check him out. He's got quite a few lectures and books about post-modernism. Just a bread crumb.
Yes, cynical theories is a very good book. I like that they steelman the arguments of Wokism before showing the flaws. I would recommend the book to everyone. However, one weakness is they do not look at previous evil ideologies and examine the roots from that perspective. www.markavis.org/2021/06/10/wokism_evil_ideology/
I'm a huge fan of Helen Pluckrose et al - so nice to hear her narration! Also, kudos on the vid, this is really concise and a great primer for those just starting to grapple with these ideas. Keep up the great work!
When you take control over the popular discourse it suddenly becomes undeniable and unassailable truth. And don't even try question it, or else! It's quite simple, isn't it?
Or else what? This video is being hosted by Google and watched by thousands of people who are deeply misled by it. What kind of control exists in the modern world to denial of post-modrenism (what ever that is) and wokism (what ever that is)
Amazing channel! I heard about it from, Dave Rubin. I'm so glad that I've signed up on the website and subscribed to this channel. Can't wait to dive in and hear/learn more.
So woke stuff is like a new form of superstition. Where instead of ‘seeing the gods messages in the clouds’ now it’s ‘I see racism no one else does’ and plays on the minds of people who are naturally anxious and over analyze things
We all want a future utopia the problem is that some people think we build utopia by settling our differences And some people think we build it by forever silencing the voices who cant agree on what utopia "should" look like
Being "woke" just sounds completely exhausting and miserable. Having to find something bad in every single thing you come across, having to learn and remember all these made up terms, not being able to trust even basic fact because "it was made up by the powerful" and then spending your every waking moment complaining and whining about capitalism and this and that instead of putting that time and energy to actually getting somewhere in life. Most people who bitch about capitalism and how they cant get anywhere would be able to get somewhere if they just tried. Maybe not the place they want to be, but that's part of life. You cant have everything you want. And this isnt to say that there are no problems with powerful people or capitalism or whatever. There are plenty and we should work on resolving those. But it doesnt mean everything is bad down to the bone and we shouldnt try and should just burn everything down and be miserable.
If they can’t believe or trust human instinct and human nature and know the difference between good and evil then who are they to tell anyone what’s right or wrong. It’s a dangerous road to go down when you believe everything in life is wrong. It will be a very miserable and paranoid world for them.
Thank you for this cogent, professionally done, systematically presented work. Next time someone claims "There's no such thing as woke," or asks, "What is woke, anyway?" I will point to this film series. Watching interviews of knowledgeable people speaking off the cuff and listening through James Lindsay's 2+-hour podcasts is enlightening, but this is so concise and watchable.
Also, for me it's really helpful to see what all these people look like. It helps me remember who said what, rather than just a bunch of names that all jumble together after a while -- Marcuse, Foucault, Butler, etc.
If you liked Cynical Theories, may I suggest reading Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch. I have heard Helen recommend it herself. It really helped me get a better understanding of liberalism and the value of the open marketplace of ideas.
Fantastic Voice-over work!, smooth animations. I try to remind optimistic, but the rate at which I hear my friends spouting spurious and (up to recently confined to academia) "technical" terminology ( white fragility, moral relativism, social constructivism) leads me to think there's no turning back, in the sense that we are going to hit hard the wall of reality: bring down institutions which, albeit flawed, brought unprecedented levels a material well-being and security not only to minorities but to virtually every nation that adopted rule of law, property rights, decentralized economics (relatively speaking).
Thanks for this series. I'm stuck in Woklandia due to disability induced poverty. I can't return to my health care career or to college to get my MSW due to being forced to jab and take woke classes. I used to consider myself a progressive until the shutdowns. This city destroyed my ability to go for a walk due to medical mistreatment after refusing to jab. My ex best friend told me that her friends would leave her if she hung out with me,and that I'm selfish in believing that my previous COVID infection resulted in natural immunity. Between the woke culture and medical tyranny, Portland has turned into my hell. I'm too physically crippled to go back to work as an OT, and I refuse to jab. I wanted to return to school in order to become a mental health counselor, but quickly discovered that even if I took an online program from a school in a red state, I would be forced to jab and mask during my clinical in Portland and to take social justice courses. Life on ssdi in Woklandia is a life I wouldn't wish on anyone. It's a life the WEF Davos crowd wants to force on everyone by 2030. I see the woke movement as a part of that agenda. I'm not a Marxist but they weren't entirely wrong about the rich elite. There could be an entire other documentary on how the Portland medical tyranny mirrors the woke movement, and how the WEF billionaires use both to advance their totalitarian agenda.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has tied in the whole woke movement to the WEF, and I’m sorry that you are suffering from the BS - not sure what I can say that would help since we are ALL either in deep shit over this or will be…
The interesting -- and difficult -- question here is how one justifies, in a non-circular way, the claim that the sequence shown at 01:53 constitutes progress. This cannot merely be asserted as true simply because the alternative is disconcerting. Yet, all too often, appeals to self-evidence and intuition is the best that critics of post-modernism have to offer. A tenable alternative must do better.
I'm constantly reading, reviewing, and referencing Cynical Theories:) Great book- Thank you so much! One question I keep returning to though is whether this second wave of scholars (Crenshaw, Butler, Delgado) should be heavily attributed to the French Postmodern thinkers, or if this new Neo-Marxist/Applied Postmodernism that we see in both academia and the mainstream today is more of a Frankenstein's monster of the early Critical Theorists. After all, the French Postmodern camp arrived on the scene in the 60s-> much later than the Frankfurt school, but a lot of their work (especially Horkheimer and Adorno), identified central ideas that closely resemble what Pluckrose classifies as the PM Knowledge and PM Political Principles. Even further, Marcuse and his student Angela Davis really gave activism some of its justifiable bite that we're seeing today. I know Foucault, Derrida, and Lyotard are heavily referenced in critical scholarship today so I don't want to undermine their influence, but I'm really curious if they are more of a secondary appendage than foundational to all of this work? The more I read and research, I really think ideas from Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Engels, Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school might be a more appropriate ideological source.
"Everything we think we know is actually a construct of power. They believed all knowledge was created and corrupted by power." ... Including that knowledge? If your idea is that all ideas are about power, then how is YOUR idea not about power, too? How did postmodernist thought make it out of the seed? This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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I misspelled the source of the opening quote - it should read Saul D. Alinksy, hence the blur I added. I had gone months without sleeping much, so I sometimes made mistakes.
The irony of telling people that everything is a construct and only a means to gain power while simultaneously telling people that you are the enlightened one who can tell them what is actually true...
"Based on faulty and unproven scholarship." That one sentence says a lot.
yes it most certainly does.
From 30 years ago, these people engaged in an echo chamber of peer review to give their works the appearance of legitimacy. They never gave their work to anyone outside those circles under the auspices that these other scholars are critiquing work based on oppressive knowledge contracts and therefore couldn't give due and unbiased evaluation of such works.... absolute garbage. These woke scholars knew they built a man of straw ideology which could be burnt to the ground by centuries of tried and true philosophical and political thought. To them, it was a question of playing for power in academia. Well, they got that power and have screwed things up monumentally but are not accepting accountability or responsibility for any of their actions.
@@Scuppun yup, and they're still trying to grab more power.
I actually like some of Foucault and think that he has a lot of ideas useful for analyzing how today's woke movements spread.
@@JA-nl9el troll
The great thing about finding fault in every gesture and utterance is you can focus on the perceived short comings of others ,avoiding the need for introspection in your own life.
Amen
Exactly, avoid the long hard and painful work of unpicking your own psyche and trauma because there is no instant gratification involved. Social media and reality TV appear to have become mass tools of indoctrination and integrity and self-responsibility have all but disappeared in the latest generation of young adults.
The only thing I don’t care for when I hear people criticize woke culture is that as an advocate of wokeness I start to notice my crown start to slide a bit when I’m criticized.
Imagine how exhausting and miserable it must be to find evil in every utterance and twitch of the limb.
And yet they give the impression that it's their fuel 😂
When one sees evil as a virtue to pursue, creation and the image of god can't be anything but evil in every thing.
That's why their religion has no good, only bad, redemption is destruction, sin is existence itself.
That does not define WOKE....
This is not the definition of woke this is a republican term for political foolery and control.
@@jennw5052 wrong. That's what woke is. With citations.
Fantastic explanation.
This video came up randomly on autoplay. I didn't expect it to be the best thing I see all day. Well done.
Thanks!
I "shouldn't" address a crowd as ladies and gentlemen ? 😳
Anyone who tries to control the words coming out of my mouth is Not going to like me
Say what you want;
You will find the right people to hang out with
When you lie to yourself about who you are, you lose everything and wind up feeling very lonely
Be true to you.
Don’t let anyone control your words.
Stand together, stand strong 💪🏼
brilliant, so scary where the world is going
These young woke kids that promote to give up manhood has no idea what the heck the real world looks like. Wait until we go to war…who are they going to call for help to save their ass. Sad
“The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.”
- Leonard Peikoff, 1983
A great first episode. More of this kind of content is needed.
Thank you!
This was a great overview on the origins of the popular social theories of our day that’s often called woke ideology. The only way around these issues is to understand them. Once we understand them then we can see where it’s applied and not play by their rules while being better examples and more rigorous thinkers. The tragedy of critical race theory and many other postmodern inspired theories of today is they limit the potential of their subscribers by making everything about power and prejudice. The signal productions, you’re doing some phenomenal work. Can’t wait to see episode two!
OR . . .you could just physically look around you and see how the town you live in developed. Explain why black areas always seem to lag behind. Why is that? See, we get so caught up in MARX, CRT, POSTMODERNISM, and all the other intellectual master bastion that we fail to ask " how did this happen"? Who had the power when all this came about. All the supposed intellectual labels, IMO, seem to be an attempt to glaze over the simple mistreatment of others. You enslaved or you didn't. You subjugated or you didn't. We don't need Karl Marx to explain to us why Chauvin killed George Floyd.
@@noeltaylor3594 black areas lag behind because of black people
@Jota Lhão 88% of whites are killed by other whites? You ever watch 48 Hours, 20/20, or Snapped? It's not the murders. It's the historic, systemic mistreatment.
@@noeltaylor3594 'reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!'
😆 🤣
@@noeltaylor3594 You obviously know nothing about slavery and the subjugation of other humans.Slavery only became race dependent when technology,ships and navigation,enabled the transportation of Africans to the Americas,incidentally more African slaves went to Brazil than the British colonies.Africa had a thriving slave trading that allowed Africans to enslave other Africans and that availability supplied the Americas with the human resource they sought.
The history of slavery is ancient and it has always revolved around the strong enslaving the weak and available ,race and “racism” played little part.
this was literally terrifying to watch, because that's EXACTLY how it happened.
Helen Pluckrose has a really excellent reading voice! (I hope that wasn't racist or offensive.) Nicely done!
So offensive! hahaha. jk. Thank you!
She does!
Helen is pretty tough -not easily offended!
She does have a beautiful voice, and it’s not racist 😝. I also love Dave Chappelle’s voice, The Dali Lama’s voice, and especially for some reason Neil Degrass Tyson’s voice, Bob Marley’s and a ton of different people who’s energy vibe is just awesome. Color of skin doesn’t affect how pleasant sounding someone’s tone can be 💗🧬💎🧬💗
That is sexist and misogynistic though! 😜😂
I have been waiting for this and it did not disappoint! Excited for part 2.
So glad this finally came out, sharing it with everyone I know so they understand what's making so many Ppl go insane, literally
Thank you!
This is making people pf course ,
It's not Woke....stop using this term. Blacks have used this term way back in the 1960s way before Ron Desantis
The evil guise of Marxism is like a recurring nightmare in that these so-called scholars keep resurrecting it.
@@jennw5052 And Blacks have also been a major TARGET for the victimizing lies of the White Progressive Socialist Machine. Malcolm X heavily warned Black Americans about this extremely dangerous trap but his warnings have largely, been suppressed by Black Hate Profiteers and White Progressive Elites. Their lies must be exposed in order for Blacks to move forward. Is there a correlation between fatherless young black males and crime? To deny what the stats undeniably show is to be living in the lies of the aforementioned groups. Why did the fatherless rate among Blacks explode post 1960s? Who did it and why? Malcolm X was 100% right!
The origins of woke ideology (the ideas) go back 60 years at least. Consider these early 1960s books. All of them key to the movements they inspired. All of these movements with overlapping support.
1961: 'Madness and Civilization', by Michel Foucault
1961: 'The Myth of Mental Illness', by Thomas Szasz
1962: 'Silent Spring', by Rachel Carson
1963: 'The Feminine Mystique', by Betty Friedan. Insprired by Simone de Beauvoir's 1949: 'The Second Sex'; The Second Sex came in 2 volumes. Volume 2 was titled: 'Lived Experience'! Thank you Feminism!, for giving us "lived experience". You made the trans-rights movement, whom you now accuse of 'misogyny'. The earliest citation for “lived experience” is from a 1889 Australian feminist magazine: “all these subjects are open to discussion, suggestion and action, upon the ground of lived experience”.
BTW: I wouldn't advise anyone not to read these books above; but as you do, please fact-check them.
So, given the ideas are so old, the question is "Why Now?"; Why only in the last decade?
Yeah, I also find it weird that these are so old but yet this ideology has exploded in the last few years.
@@SDS-ee9jsThe "long march through the institutions" as advocated by Herbert Marcuse came to fruition. The indoctrinated students left university and entered acafemia and the workplace. Then the WEF and various activist groups began bribing (and thrratening) companies into adopting Critical Theory/Woke policies.
I would add 1968: |Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
@@SDS-ee9js I remember 'Myth of Mental Illness' after I got sectioned, lol. Its not a myth, but can be used as a form of oppression. These days it's used to cover up Jihadism. Still used,
Animation is great, well done.
I freaked out a little when I saw that "All opression is connected" infographic, because I used to share it on social media 🥺
Critical
Race
Applied
Principles.
Spells it out right there.
Absolutely brilliant. Having read the book Cynical Theories, and I'm on my second read through, this is a great peek into what the book describes in great detail. Excellent video. Will share as much as possible.
Awesome. Thank you!
so, essentially nihilism. Neo lib sentiments seem to always find their logical end there. If anyone disagrees or can expound otherwise or for it Id love to hear it. This is an important issue to discuss
I'm a liberal but don't go along with this ideology. I think we have great tenets in Liberal Humanism that are unifying and helpful.
@@becomethesignal I assume by liberal you mean classical liberal, but correct me if I'm wrong. My distinction of neo lib essentially means hard left (collectivism, marxism et al), whom are nigh to if not comprehensively illiberal. I appreciate your work. You and your colleagues are literally healing agents/fighting force against a societal and intellectual cancer
@@becomethesignal I am a Conservative, but I see the difference between Liberalism an Conservatism are mostly those of degree and method, cost and effect. Both seek to improve the society. CT see our very concept of culture as a false narrative. It wish to wipe away our culture and replace it with a shiny dream of their own making. This should be stopped. I love our culture, and would hate to see it thrown away. Perhaps we Conservatives and Liberals could see an end put to the advancements of CT. What do you say?
@@wardkerr2456 improve the society by maintaining what has been demonstrably good and exploring new ideas without destroying the old ones.
I think the reason why society is going mad is because the moment a nation decides "we don't need God" then it enters a spiral of self destruction
Whoa! Man! Why isn't this mainstreaming?
I've read and listened to more than a few discourses on wokeism but this is excellent. Succinct.
Really well produced, cant wait for the next episode!
Thank you!
Great start to understanding this quagmire of intertwined ideologies. I’m watching it a few times and just ordered Cynical Theories for the drill down.
GREAT!!! I've been waiting for this series! My notifications never came through, funny that, but not the first time. Thanks guys for putting this together...WE NEED THIS SO MUCH!!!
Absolutely crucial for those who are new to the movement or want to gain a base level of understanding. Great work!
Thanks so much.
to which movement?
Having read Cynical Theories, this was a pretty standard opening description. I think that Critical Race Theorists specifically can dispute ties to Postmodernism. Hell, they’re even disputing ties to Bell’s (who claims to not have read Marx) Legal Studies, which can be proven in Krenshaw’s own work. No matter how opponents of Critical Theories define (or fail to define it) It’s dangerous stuff. There’s no place in any of our institutions for this nonsense. Excited for part 2!
I actually read into post modernism before I looked into Marxist theory, so it's been a while since I read any post modernist theory.
I remember thinking it was really odd that the pro-Marxist lecturers I had were the ones who told me not to read post-modernism because it was "a waste of time", yet the form the seemed to discuss was heavily influenced by it.
When I finally started reading though Marxism (Oh god, Marx and Engels are boring and terrible writers) and how that evolved into critical theory, post-modernist theory really did just seem like a logical progression.
My degree was fine arts and it was a while ago, so I can't imagine how obtuse and groomy it would be now.
Bell's a liar.
So people is arguing about the origin of obscure ideological bullshit trying to understand from where comes what and all of that and getting into fights because of it... man this is exactly how imagined early christians arguing about obscure religious bullshit... I can already see how all of this will bring the end of the empire and a lot of violence and death.
'His/her truth'* is heavily relied upon in CRT.
Pretty Post-Modern, no?
*Silence the White People, silence debate.
First part of your comment is a dumb take
This is great! Can't wait for more of these.
Thank you!
Thank you for this informative video. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Helen Pluckrose has a wonderful voice for narration.
A brilliant analysis delivered with clarity. Thank you Helen Pluckrose.
Excellent work. I'm looking forward to see the other episodes. Thank you so much.
People's beliefs are not entiirely shaped by discourses because most part of our beliefs are shaped by one's everyday experiences. When discourses are totally out-of-touch with the everyday reality that people were facing, they failed.
A new zealous American religion, spreading in the Western World.
Imagine how much better the world had been if the three of them were killed early on.
I'm looking forward to seeing the other episodes. I just read Cynical Theories and really enjoyed it. I recently came across Stephen Hicks. So, if you also read cynical theories and enjoyed it I'd implore you to check him out. He's got quite a few lectures and books about post-modernism. Just a bread crumb.
Yes, cynical theories is a very good book. I like that they steelman the arguments of Wokism before showing the flaws. I would recommend the book to everyone. However, one weakness is they do not look at previous evil ideologies and examine the roots from that perspective.
www.markavis.org/2021/06/10/wokism_evil_ideology/
Great work! Looking forward to future episodes.
Thank you! Next episode is out next Friday!
Fantastic information. Well stated, no word salad
I'm a huge fan of Helen Pluckrose et al - so nice to hear her narration!
Also, kudos on the vid, this is really concise and a great primer for those just starting to grapple with these ideas. Keep up the great work!
A M A Z I N G. You guyd nailed it! I will be sharing it for sure.
When you take control over the popular discourse it suddenly becomes undeniable and unassailable truth.
And don't even try question it, or else!
It's quite simple, isn't it?
Or else what? This video is being hosted by Google and watched by thousands of people who are deeply misled by it. What kind of control exists in the modern world to denial of post-modrenism (what ever that is) and wokism (what ever that is)
Amazing channel! I heard about it from, Dave Rubin. I'm so glad that I've signed up on the website and subscribed to this channel. Can't wait to dive in and hear/learn more.
This is a gem... Thanks for the upload
Outstanding doc
Your animation, as a graphic accompaniment to the content, was great. I found the content quite clear.
I'd love to have a 2 hours plus full documentary series of this. Great job!!
Being aware of social and political views.....should not be viewed as bad...as it...allows debating on all social and political subjects...
A fine piece of work 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Excellently made and we'll narrated, thank you .
So woke stuff is like a new form of superstition. Where instead of ‘seeing the gods messages in the clouds’ now it’s ‘I see racism no one else does’ and plays on the minds of people who are naturally anxious and over analyze things
We all want a future utopia
the problem is that some people think we build utopia by settling our differences
And some people think we build it by forever silencing the voices who cant agree on what utopia "should" look like
Thank you for creating this highly informative episode. I look forward to watching more💜
How does this not have more views?
Short enough for todays attention span, Very Good Work.
Thanks!
Similar to the French and Chinese Cultural Revolutions. We see how they ended up.
Thank God I found your channel
Severely underrated video
Thanks!
This is great! I can’t wait to watch all of the episodes
The scope for self righteous judgements is sky high in this world.
Very, very well done.
Very interesting.
This is soooo well done!! Explains woke-ism so well.
Being "woke" just sounds completely exhausting and miserable. Having to find something bad in every single thing you come across, having to learn and remember all these made up terms, not being able to trust even basic fact because "it was made up by the powerful" and then spending your every waking moment complaining and whining about capitalism and this and that instead of putting that time and energy to actually getting somewhere in life. Most people who bitch about capitalism and how they cant get anywhere would be able to get somewhere if they just tried. Maybe not the place they want to be, but that's part of life. You cant have everything you want.
And this isnt to say that there are no problems with powerful people or capitalism or whatever. There are plenty and we should work on resolving those. But it doesnt mean everything is bad down to the bone and we shouldnt try and should just burn everything down and be miserable.
If they can’t believe or trust human instinct and human nature and know the difference between good and evil then who are they to tell anyone what’s right or wrong. It’s a dangerous road to go down when you believe everything in life is wrong. It will be a very miserable and paranoid world for them.
Everyone needs to See this
Got a question, how can woke ideology be destroyed?
It will eventually consume itself as more and more strata of victim-hood drain the lifeblood from this malignant tumor on society.
What a great explanation! Thank you!
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Thank you for this cogent, professionally done, systematically presented work. Next time someone claims "There's no such thing as woke," or asks, "What is woke, anyway?" I will point to this film series.
Watching interviews of knowledgeable people speaking off the cuff and listening through James Lindsay's 2+-hour podcasts is enlightening, but this is so concise and watchable.
Also, for me it's really helpful to see what all these people look like. It helps me remember who said what, rather than just a bunch of names that all jumble together after a while -- Marcuse, Foucault, Butler, etc.
If you liked Cynical Theories, may I suggest reading Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch. I have heard Helen recommend it herself. It really helped me get a better understanding of liberalism and the value of the open marketplace of ideas.
This is an outstanding/informative video about this societal cancer which must be eradicated at all costs.
Brilliant. Extremely helpful.
Fantastic Voice-over work!, smooth animations. I try to remind optimistic, but the rate at which I hear my friends spouting spurious and (up to recently confined to academia) "technical" terminology ( white fragility, moral relativism, social constructivism) leads me to think there's no turning back, in the sense that we are going to hit hard the wall of reality: bring down institutions which, albeit flawed, brought unprecedented levels a material well-being and security not only to minorities but to virtually every nation that adopted rule of law, property rights, decentralized economics (relatively speaking).
This is actually proper. 👏
Thanks Travis! Commenting for the algorithms to do their work...
Thank you!
Thanks for this series. I'm stuck in Woklandia due to disability induced poverty. I can't return to my health care career or to college to get my MSW due to being forced to jab and take woke classes. I used to consider myself a progressive until the shutdowns. This city destroyed my ability to go for a walk due to medical mistreatment after refusing to jab. My ex best friend told me that her friends would leave her if she hung out with me,and that I'm selfish in believing that my previous COVID infection resulted in natural immunity. Between the woke culture and medical tyranny, Portland has turned into my hell. I'm too physically crippled to go back to work as an OT, and I refuse to jab. I wanted to return to school in order to become a mental health counselor, but quickly discovered that even if I took an online program from a school in a red state, I would be forced to jab and mask during my clinical in Portland and to take social justice courses. Life on ssdi in Woklandia is a life I wouldn't wish on anyone. It's a life the WEF Davos crowd wants to force on everyone by 2030. I see the woke movement as a part of that agenda. I'm not a Marxist but they weren't entirely wrong about the rich elite. There could be an entire other documentary on how the Portland medical tyranny mirrors the woke movement, and how the WEF billionaires use both to advance their totalitarian agenda.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has tied in the whole woke movement to the WEF, and I’m sorry that you are suffering from the BS - not sure what I can say that would help since we are ALL either in deep shit over this or will be…
You want an MSW and don't want to take social justice courses? Pick another field.
please also post this somewhere off youtube in case they take this down some time.
+1
Was thinking the same thing
Excellent work, clear, concise, engaging.
This is the best nutshell explanation I have seen. I shall disseminate this widely. Thank you to the esteemed authors.
Social justice is a social construct.
Well said.
Thanks for doing this
Thank you!
The interesting -- and difficult -- question here is how one justifies, in a non-circular way, the claim that the sequence shown at 01:53 constitutes progress. This cannot merely be asserted as true simply because the alternative is disconcerting. Yet, all too often, appeals to self-evidence and intuition is the best that critics of post-modernism have to offer. A tenable alternative must do better.
Fantastic. Thank you
Thank you
"The sleep of reason breeds monsters." -Goya
Excellent video.
I'm prepared to not live on my knees.
"They could see everything. They were woke." Who are the real conspiracy theorists?
I'm constantly reading, reviewing, and referencing Cynical Theories:) Great book- Thank you so much! One question I keep returning to though is whether this second wave of scholars (Crenshaw, Butler, Delgado) should be heavily attributed to the French Postmodern thinkers, or if this new Neo-Marxist/Applied Postmodernism that we see in both academia and the mainstream today is more of a Frankenstein's monster of the early Critical Theorists. After all, the French Postmodern camp arrived on the scene in the 60s-> much later than the Frankfurt school, but a lot of their work (especially Horkheimer and Adorno), identified central ideas that closely resemble what Pluckrose classifies as the PM Knowledge and PM Political Principles. Even further, Marcuse and his student Angela Davis really gave activism some of its justifiable bite that we're seeing today. I know Foucault, Derrida, and Lyotard are heavily referenced in critical scholarship today so I don't want to undermine their influence, but I'm really curious if they are more of a secondary appendage than foundational to all of this work? The more I read and research, I really think ideas from Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Engels, Gramsci, and the Frankfurt school might be a more appropriate ideological source.
Great overview!
Let battle commence! You guys are my heroes.
Thanks so much.
Very well done!
Pure insanity.
You entirely leave out the fact that internet is what gave voices to these woke people , without that this is all always has been down the drain
Perhaps that’s in part two.
Brilliant!
Thank you for this. Thank you. How do we get this out to more people?
Share wherever you can!
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Thank you!
"Everything we think we know is actually a construct of power. They believed all knowledge was created and corrupted by power." ... Including that knowledge? If your idea is that all ideas are about power, then how is YOUR idea not about power, too? How did postmodernist thought make it out of the seed? This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Very well put together. I would say that the content is even better than the book, Cynical Theories.