Postmodern Religion & the Faith of Social Justice

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  • Опубликовано: 17 дек 2018
  • This video is an introduction to a written piece published in Areo magazine - areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/p...
    Support the feature-length documentary here - / mikenayna
    For anyone uncomfortable with Patreon, one-off transfers can be done here: paypal.me/mikenayna
    It's worth mentioning we're not claiming that either social justice or religion are inherently bad. We're neutral in this regard. The claim is Social Justice takes on many of the qualities of a religion and should be recognized and treated as such.
    Featuring James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian & Helen Pluckrose -
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    #GrievanceStudies #PeterBoghossian #JamesLindsay #HelenPluckrose #MikeNayna #SokalSquared #GrievanceStudiesAffair #Postmodernism #Religion
    This is a series of videos associated with a feature-length documentary I'm working on about The Grievance Studies Affair. My plan is to play around with some of the footage I gather and upload it here to gauge interest and have a creative outlet while I learn about the complicated subject matter.
    My usual sources of film funding are blocked off to me because of the sensitive subject matter and my slow approach. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you're in a position to help, you can support the project here - / mikenayna

Комментарии • 586

  • @ILoveMagic15
    @ILoveMagic15 5 лет назад +679

    If you release a full documentary on this topic and in this quality, I can guarantee you it will blow up.

    • @LiquidSwan
      @LiquidSwan 5 лет назад +21

      ilovemypiano 100% agree. The musical accompaniment is fucking brilliant too

    • @MikeNayna
      @MikeNayna  5 лет назад +117

      Thanks. I'm not as confident though, man. It's difficult to get industry buy-in for this subject matter and films blow up when distribution networks and festivals get behind them. I'm going to need a lot of audience help to prove there's public interest and support around the project before anything will happen.

    • @ILoveMagic15
      @ILoveMagic15 5 лет назад +50

      ​@@MikeNayna The IDW audience is large and we're here to help you! I think the documentary would really hit a nerve with a lot of people around the world. At my university I have personally experienced that the tides are turning and more and more people both inside and outside academia are getting upset at the grievance studies cult. I believe we're at a turning point in history and your movie would come at the perfect time. I'm really looking forward to hearing from your project!

    • @RussellWarshay
      @RussellWarshay 5 лет назад +7

      Circumvent the industry.

    • @ChollieD
      @ChollieD 5 лет назад +12

      @@ILoveMagic15 Oh man, I hope you're right! We really need a robust Left in America that cares about workers and the twin abilities to speak and to listen to difficult ideas, and is suspicious of technocracy and mob rule.

  • @Jacob-ur3lh
    @Jacob-ur3lh 5 лет назад +369

    Treat people as individuals not as a collective. Amen.

    • @dranirbanpal
      @dranirbanpal 5 лет назад +12

      It is hard to do that if people treat themselves as a collective.

    • @martinpedersen2650
      @martinpedersen2650 5 лет назад +3

      That's racist "anti" racist 2018.

    • @michaelscott-joynt3215
      @michaelscott-joynt3215 5 лет назад +7

      Multiple collectives. And collectives treating other collectives as collectives. Identity politics is about dividing people into groups and treating them differently based on collective assumptions and grievances.

    • @bigfan1041
      @bigfan1041 5 лет назад +1

      Sometimes it's best to treat people as individuals, sometimes you have to take group dynamics into account.

    • @samt3412
      @samt3412 4 года назад +2

      @Danny M This is why we treat politics like alchohol: Moderation is key.

  • @chrismaupin
    @chrismaupin 3 года назад +8

    I'm an atheist and a liberal. I was very engaged in the fight for things like marriage equality for gays and lesbians. I've always considered myself a champion for the downtrodden - someone to speak up when I saw people being treated unfairly just for being who they are. But somewhere in about 2011 or so, the left went to crazy town. At first, I tried to look the other way and say things like "well, they are fighting for the right things" or "they just want to get attention for some painful issues society wants to ignore" etc. But they just kept getting crazier and crazier. For me, the final straw was the open attacks on 'rationality' or 'reason' as epistemologies. These are, for me, the highest virtues - they are what can take us, collectively as a human race, to new heights. I realized then and there that I had, unwittingly, been sleepily dragged along as a sympathizer to a cult. I was never really 'in' the woke movement, but I (thought) I understood its aims. Now, I think it is just a religion as the above author points out - something to provide a meaning structure and to create purpose. It is not about "what it says on the tin," as they say in the UK.
    I'm out. You can always count on me to stand up for people who are being denied opportunity or rights or civil treatment. But I'm not interested in some kind of anti-rational shame cult.

    • @darkengine5931
      @darkengine5931 3 года назад +5

      I'm of a similar background. I actually became an atheist at around the age of 7 in large part because I kept challenging my Baptist church and my own parents about homosexuality and ultimately my own faith. They were doing things like organizing protests in the late 80s against Disney for hiring homosexuals, and I only saw hatred and nothing moral about that even within a Christian framework. The church wasn't as bad as Westboro but it was similar, just less extreme. Questioning the church's actions led the members to find me blasphemous, and my own parents kept questioning if I was homosexual simply for constantly challenging the church members (I wasn't and very much heterosexual). My parents gave up even trying to bring me to the church by the age of 10 or so.
      I identified proudly as a liberal and a democrat as a teenager. I thought the democratic party was the party of empathy, and I always seemed wired to feel things more when I see people suffering or being bullied for some reason. I couldn't understand why people could walk by homeless people as though they were invisible without a second thought, or point fingers and laugh when someone trips and falls down instead of rushing to help them. I'd bounce between a sense of empathy and anger at those who seemed to lack it.
      Yet by the time I attended university in the early 2000s, a sociology course exposed me to these anti-modernist ideas with a feminist professor teaching ideology masquerading as science while constantly contradicting what I was simultaneously learning in biology, psychology, economics, and even history. So I became a blasphemer once more in challenging the ideology and its members and found myself at a strange point where I was being called a conservative even though I thought I was very much liberal, and very much inspired by the founding fathers (especially James Madison).
      I also found many of these so-called left-wing liberals appearing to be driven more by hatred rather than empathy for those who suffer, like people who hate the rich more than they care about the poor, or people who hate white people or men more than they care about combatting discrimination. It was a similar type of hypocrisy in righteousness that I witnessed in the very church that found me a heretic.

  • @orenalbertmeisel3127
    @orenalbertmeisel3127 5 лет назад +152

    Religion is religion, and people usually know how to distinguish between religion and what isn't religion. These "social sciences" on the other hand, taught at universities, are presented as "science" although they clearly are post-modern religions.

    • @condew6103
      @condew6103 5 лет назад +39

      The Grievance studies peer-reviewed papers aren't reviewed for science and truth, they're reviewed for the correct religious terms and for absence of heresy.

    • @fkerpants
      @fkerpants 5 лет назад +8

      @@condew6103 ^^^^^^^^ This

    • @Lesnooch
      @Lesnooch 5 лет назад +12

      @Nika D Sadly, in grievance studies it is distressingly easy to get a PhD. It's not about the research, it's about knowing the correct terminology and buzzwords.

    • @steevzywilliams1778
      @steevzywilliams1778 5 лет назад +3

      Humanism.

    • @yengsabio5315
      @yengsabio5315 4 года назад

      @@aa_edwards It's a long read, & I read it! Thank you for stating it here!

  • @bertrandkurtrussell870
    @bertrandkurtrussell870 5 лет назад +276

    The power of woke compells you! The power of woke compells you! The power of woke compells you! The power of woke compells you!

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 5 лет назад +3

      lol. Might be my official new chant around these people

    • @JH-ji6cj
      @JH-ji6cj 5 лет назад

      Oh, the irony within the comment section!

    • @patrickuk9784
      @patrickuk9784 5 лет назад +1

      Wokey dokey!

    • @DrTWG
      @DrTWG 5 лет назад

      Do you know what you did ? , your cunting comment !.

    • @RonnieD1970
      @RonnieD1970 4 года назад +1

      Brilliant comment

  • @aeiouaeiou100
    @aeiouaeiou100 5 лет назад +171

    Holy shit. This is such an insightful video! Well done!

  • @TheLacedaemonian300
    @TheLacedaemonian300 5 лет назад +150

    This is great! Someone finally made a video showing social justice and religious fundamentalism side by side. And they are not very differrent at all. Good work Mike!

    • @martinpedersen2650
      @martinpedersen2650 5 лет назад +2

      you have to pause and look closely to even spot the difference.

    • @Carvin0
      @Carvin0 5 лет назад +1

      @@martinpedersen2650 There is no difference.

    • @brandowhitemusic
      @brandowhitemusic 5 лет назад +21

      The difference is that traditional religion is subject to separation of church and state, while there seem to be no well-defined barriers blocking the religion of social justice from infiltrating the state.

    • @angelabox1865
      @angelabox1865 5 лет назад +2

      Or eradicate ANY people. The emotionality is the same but that is all. @behind you

    • @steevzywilliams1778
      @steevzywilliams1778 5 лет назад +2

      Or any people. All people from every nation are loved by God as His creation, His children. The war against evil is not the war against people. It is a war against Satan. A spiritual war. To be a slave of Jesus the Christ. To please God as our Father. Is carried out in the heart of all individuals who believe the eyewitness accounts and the teachings of the Apostles of Jesus Christ. Faith is a gift from God so that no one is able to feel superior for being a believer. Saved by God's mercy alone. Not by our works.

  • @gomezpovina
    @gomezpovina 5 лет назад +109

    You missed Tim Cook's (Apple CEO) speech from the last few weeks, where he states that not acting against the heretics, according to his own sense of morality, is a sin.

    • @DarthBalsamic
      @DarthBalsamic 5 лет назад +11

      Yeah I saw that, it was definitely disturbing. What set me back on it was how he usurped the theology of a faith and a doctrine that he doesn't adhere to, understand nor believe yet uses to make a caricature of those he disagrees with.

    • @solarnaut
      @solarnaut 5 лет назад +8

      you DARE to question the wordeth of the COOKED APPLE ? ! ? Be Gone !

    • @mostlypeacefulrowan8747
      @mostlypeacefulrowan8747 5 лет назад +8

      Yea I don’t know if Tim Cook is an ideologue or if he is just trying to appease his millennial staff.

    • @manbearpig7521
      @manbearpig7521 5 лет назад +1

      @Jim P wow. I must read this speech. Woke millennials are terrible.

    • @dreamweaver1603
      @dreamweaver1603 5 лет назад +1

      Jim P with no redemption or salvation. That’s the problem with their religion, no way to forgiveness.

  • @deanfarago2744
    @deanfarago2744 5 лет назад +9

    "The problem of the extreme right is its unholy alliance with antisocial personality disorder. The problem of the extreme left is its unholy alliance with borderline and histrionic personality disorder. Moderate is the new radical."
    Dr James Cantor

  • @rageagainstmyhatchet
    @rageagainstmyhatchet 5 лет назад +11

    Thanks for this - I took an MSc in social research for work (as a social researcher for local government) ten years after graduating in psychology. When I got into the class room after this decade away I was quite astounded to see how things had developed. After scoring 90% in my philosophy of social science class, I carried on reading into the backgrounds. The abandonment of modernism, of positivism, whilst perhaps useful at the time, has left us in a serious dilemma.
    When Foucault (rightly) found that professionals can dominate power in their own industry by controlling language/discourse and public perceptions, things started to unravel. This meant that "science" and the scientific method was slowly re-framed as "a creation of powerful white western (straight?) men". This meant that the scientific method could be abandoned, as a toxic creation of oppressors. This meant that to go AGAINST scientific method is now virtuous; to go against traditional scientific requirements (testing, proof, verification) is actually seen as "emancipatory" and "progressive". - This is why we're in trouble. This is how cults have been able to form. Intersectional post-modernism is a Cult. It has wilfully created a discourse where traditional science is slavery and "if you feel it; it is true" has become the new reality.
    I'll also add that of the 16 units one can choose from to build the Master of Science credits, only one involved statistical analysis. It was a compulsory module, but most classmates found it very challenging and likely didn't score highly (50% or above is a pass). The other 15 units were all based on postmodern disciplines, qualitative, intersectional, discourses, self, gender, narrative, etc. This is worrying.
    Please keep up the good work where you are and I'll try to do what I can where I am... All the best, from the UK. x

  • @Gouthamedara
    @Gouthamedara 5 лет назад +24

    The comparison quickly changes from funny to scary so fast. I cant believe people are gullible.

  • @paddycharente3040
    @paddycharente3040 5 лет назад +238

    Oof that got creepy quick.

    • @jamesbrooks1367
      @jamesbrooks1367 5 лет назад +17

      it has been this creepy for a while now...

    • @isadoradoug
      @isadoradoug 5 лет назад +3

      We humans are creepy.

    • @solarnaut
      @solarnaut 5 лет назад +19

      we are not a cult … We Are Not A Cult … WE ARE NOT A CULT ...

  • @haydenstockwell252
    @haydenstockwell252 4 года назад +9

    I’m a Christian living in Washington State. I have friends, acquaintances, and people dear to me of every conceivable race, religion, and creed. That’s possible because I care about them as individuals, not just as bits and pieces of a larger whole. It’s possible because we can communicate with each other, encourage each other, and respect each other, regardless of any differences that we may or may not be able to control.
    Marxism, Postmodernism, and Critical Race Theory aren’t just broadly hostile to the ideas of religious people: they’re hostile to this very idea. The idea of free and open discourse between people who are different. The idea that we aren’t defined by the shit people vaguely similar to us may or may not have done to each other centuries ago, because WE ARE NOT THEM.
    That’s what scares me most about the movement. It’s not that it disagrees with me; a lot of people do, and there’s nothing inherently evil about that. We’re allowed to think others are wrong without being dismissive of then. I wouldn’t be dismissive of them anyway, because part of my worldview involves giving people the respect they naturally deserve as image-bearers of God. But postmodernism doesn’t even BELIEVE in right or wrong. It doesn’t believe in truth. It sees only power and oppression in all things, and stokes the flames of rage despite denying there’s such a thing as evil to be combatted.
    I can have rich and fulfilling relationships with Buddhists, with Muslims, with Taoists and Jews and Hindus and basically anyone else. I can even enjoy the company of nihilists who don’t believe in right and wrong. But a movement that denies the existence of truth, of non-oppressive discourse, and of good and evil even as it rails against the idea of power from its own position of power and demands all relationships be framed as power struggles cannot come to dominate a society without that society being destroyed.
    That’s what scares me: the thought of losing people I care about over ideology. When your movement starts making the dehumanizing of individuals its focus, when it starts saying that you shouldn’t have relationships with people who think differently from you, what you have is not a religion anymore. It’s a cult.

  • @ribbrascal
    @ribbrascal 2 года назад +9

    This video is so chilling and astonishingly well done. I love it, in the most morbidly curious way possible.
    Mike you have such a talent.
    We need more. The world needs you.

  • @cloudwolf3972
    @cloudwolf3972 5 лет назад +20

    Jonathan Haidt already said progressivism is a new religion in 2016 in a interview with Jordan Peterson

  • @adtastic1533
    @adtastic1533 5 лет назад +58

    Brilliant job with the video. Very disturbing to think these are the people running the conversation.

    • @BOMEFSY
      @BOMEFSY 5 лет назад +5

      Dictating the conversations is more like it

    • @isadoradoug
      @isadoradoug 5 лет назад +6

      Unfortunately it's not a conversation.

    • @kmasse81
      @kmasse81 5 лет назад

      They're not.

  • @harrypcs
    @harrypcs 5 лет назад +78

    Good job. I always said that PC is a new religion except for its becoming socially mandated

    • @AwareViewer
      @AwareViewer 5 лет назад +1

      PC master race!

    • @TKOS96
      @TKOS96 5 лет назад +1

      @@AwareViewer See? They even ruined PC... fucking SJWs, I tell ya...

    • @samt3412
      @samt3412 4 года назад

      Guys we're going to create the PC Inquisition, but it might be expected

    • @michaeljames4904
      @michaeljames4904 3 года назад

      For most of Christianity’s and Islam’s history it has been socially mandated.

  • @CrispyGreyMatter
    @CrispyGreyMatter 5 лет назад +21

    I object to the usage of the term 'scholar' to describe these regressives. It sullies the term.

  • @Garrettification
    @Garrettification 5 лет назад +41

    Wow. That was some great editing. Great vid.

  • @SteveSmith-fh6br
    @SteveSmith-fh6br 5 лет назад +20

    This is an amazing video and has been a long time coming. For years, I've been feeling like Social Justice is a religion. It's nice to see this idea get mainstream traction. Thank you!

  • @jeremymullins1294
    @jeremymullins1294 5 лет назад +73

    I actually went to a Christian high school with Steve Anderson(the pastor with the shaved head). Trust me, we didn't all end up like Steve. I am a Christian. One of the biggest problems I see in Christianity is an eisegetical approach to scriptural interpretation (i.e., reading one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text) as opposed to an exegetical approach where you take into account historical context and if some information is missing, well then you let it remain missing.
    But I definitely see the similarities between the ultra-religious/fundamentalists sects of Christianity and the modern social justice left. I just hope this video and James' article go a long way to target a specific problem within religion and not just paint everything with a broad brush as tends to happen.

    • @detrean
      @detrean 5 лет назад +8

      Catholic here. I agree with you. I do believe what is happening in our society is proof that humans cannot exist without religion. They will create their own because it is a requirement like food and water.
      My opinion is that god put this need in us. It is healthy but like all healthy things can be twisted and disordered.

    • @DarthBalsamic
      @DarthBalsamic 5 лет назад +5

      Exactly what I thought about this. I'm a Christian myself and also see these problems manifest in our community. The interesting part is the bible itself confronts many of these very issues directly. Quite frankly I would say one of the main reasons why God gave us his word is to help us avoid these very issues endemic within humanity in the first place; hence why you see the same problems existing in spheres outside of Christ and church as well as within it. I personally find the similarities both interesting and staggering at the same time.

    • @DarthBalsamic
      @DarthBalsamic 5 лет назад +2

      @@detrean Indeed. I actually think Romans Chapter 8 speaks on this a bit; among other passages both in the old and new testaments. It's truly fascinating to watch how humanity must worship something or someone.

    • @bigfan1041
      @bigfan1041 5 лет назад +4

      "Trust me, we didn't all end up like Steve."
      What? Happily married with lots of great, beautiful children?
      Glad you dodged that bullet.

    • @jeremymullins1294
      @jeremymullins1294 5 лет назад +6

      @@bigfan1041 No, I meant with a poor grasp of hermeneutics.

  • @ScottishAtheist
    @ScottishAtheist 5 лет назад +40

    I got my start on youtube in religious debates, and I got the strong whiff of religiosity when feminist "skeptics" started talking about "white privilege" / "male privilege" and patriarchy. As if they were talking abut original Sin and the devil.
    It really has become a cult.

    • @fkerpants
      @fkerpants 5 лет назад +3

      You're the second person in as many days that I've encountered who has said that. In another forum, I wrote:
      This social justice virus had been spreading for decades. I think it really began to explode around the end of 2012 and it actually balkanized an entire online secular movement in less than a year. In Europe and the United States atheism was on the rise after Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris published their respective books, but the whole thing blew apart after it got hijacked by feminists. The same feminists that embrace...Islam...for some incomprehensible reason.
      After Hitchens died there was this bizarre shift (that might have just been coincidental) and we saw things like "Atheism +" emerge because somehow women were threatened...somehow...maybe...? I dunno. I never understood it. Then, I started hearing about people urinating in ball pits and "fake jewelry" (no clue what that was about), and then - boom - infighting. It appeared to me the entire apparatus fractured because a group of narcissistic feminists grabbed the wheel and made everything about them. It was nauseating to witness.
      By the way, many of those same narcissists are still on the march making the same idiotic claims and demands.

    • @DarthBalsamic
      @DarthBalsamic 5 лет назад +5

      @Ribb Rotgut I turned from being a Dem around 2013-2014. Obama's presidency early on made me rethink and reconsider many of my positions on things. I can safely say I'm an independent conservative now. I think they have nearly demonic, sycophantic, cultish behavior on both sides, as well as general incompetence, cowardice, and hypocrisy on boths sides of our political leadership class in government.

    • @caca0caca0
      @caca0caca0 5 лет назад +1

      @Ribb Rotgut From my perspective it seemed to be a result of Gamergate. Before then there was little but fringe talk of these crazies and isolated incidents of abuse. Afterwards things just progressively got more and more insane.

    • @dwindeyer
      @dwindeyer 5 лет назад +3

      ​@@caca0caca0 I think Gamergate was the canary in the coal mine and it was going to happen regardless

  • @brandonharris4538
    @brandonharris4538 5 лет назад +6

    This video is legitimately one of the scariest and eye opening things I have ever seen. Absolutely terrifying.

  • @jonnutter
    @jonnutter 5 лет назад +59

    There's such a thing as 'a whiteness scholar'. Wow

    • @iseektruth64
      @iseektruth64 5 лет назад +5

      Just unbelievable.

    • @marcusanark2541
      @marcusanark2541 4 года назад +6

      That's why trade schools and self education are better than universities.

    • @carmenismyname
      @carmenismyname 4 года назад

      Marcus Anark why? You can learn a lot of crap every where and not all studies at universities are infected by this post modern virus. And who’s to say that you are capable of choosing the right material for your self study? Besides self study won’t impress on your curriculum vitae and is worthless on the job market.

    • @marcusanark2541
      @marcusanark2541 4 года назад +2

      @@carmenismyname Your first point is very valid, the second one is not and third one depends where you live and what area you work.

    • @pastlife960
      @pastlife960 4 года назад

      Can there be a blackness scholar?

  • @lc4365
    @lc4365 5 лет назад +3

    Fabulous depiction of, among other things, our utter dysfunction in being able to explore, to disagree, to dissect, to listen. And the music!! OMG, haunting, gorgeous, and dead-on for the topic at hand. Bravo.

  • @eldexxo
    @eldexxo 5 лет назад +60

    0:58 unprecedented level of manspreading !

    • @willardaustria
      @willardaustria 5 лет назад +3

      LOL Was about to comment that, too.

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 5 лет назад +5

      jesus fucking christ, I didn't need to pay attention to that. It was like a mangina crease in the jeans. I think im actually offended

    • @BEforSirius
      @BEforSirius 5 лет назад +4

      Spreading the white male patriarchy for all to see.

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 5 лет назад +2

      offensive levels of male grotesqueness

    • @lukeskywalker2481
      @lukeskywalker2481 5 лет назад

      BWAHAHAHAHAHA overtly aggressive

  • @p0ma147
    @p0ma147 5 лет назад +6

    The operation "Useful idiot" is blooming. In this video, you can see its blossoms. I'm legitimately scared.
    Thanks for your hard work, Mike.

  • @thomasrohlader189
    @thomasrohlader189 4 года назад +3

    The editing quality of this video gives me chills. Bravo!

  • @Josh-ql9yu
    @Josh-ql9yu 5 лет назад +5

    Christians have been making these cultural observations for a long time. As Bob Dylan said “you gotta serve somebody”

  • @jasonm7700
    @jasonm7700 5 лет назад +16

    I really hope this video goes wildly viral.

    • @DrTWG
      @DrTWG 5 лет назад

      Unfortunately it wont . Not a hope . It would be labelled racist, sexist , white supremacy etc etc etc

  • @Gen1sisKSW
    @Gen1sisKSW 5 лет назад +2

    Well cheers for making the most terrifying video on RUclips, Mike.
    In all seriousness though, I love your work and the time you have taken to document the accounts of Pete, Helen and Jim, Bret and Heather. Truly fantastic work.

  • @GiraffeSlapper
    @GiraffeSlapper 5 лет назад +8

    A year ago I started trying to argue that feminism is the new religion and these dudes explaining it like this just answered all my questions on how I wanted to argue this in a simple way.

    • @Tisply25
      @Tisply25 5 лет назад +1

      If you think about it, how they're infiltrating and politicizing art, entertainment, and fandoms; they're turning all that into a form religious fanaticism. The stories from the Bible were supposed to be parables; stories that were an early form of entertainment. The different parables or myths were told around the world, some of them changing when it reached a different region. The stories drew a legion of fans together. The storytellers who told them were doing it for the sake of entertaining and teaching, some probably took them too literally and told them as if they were the real thing. When that happened, in order to protect their version of the truth, they turned the ideas based around these stories into a religion. Soon, the religion started making crazy people; alienating the followers who had common sense. They soon became heretics. Crazy people started to politicize the religion. So on so forth. Today, look at what people are doing to comics, Star Wars, video games, etc.

  • @s.s.6661
    @s.s.6661 5 лет назад +5

    I have chills. I need this documentary when it's done.

  • @huckleberryharrison6248
    @huckleberryharrison6248 2 года назад +1

    "These consequences are often invisible to the naked eye. And the naked eye is not accustomed to looking at issues through an intersectional prism." There is no better way of saying "what I'm saying lacks common sense" like that. Preach it, sister.

  • @isscv
    @isscv 5 лет назад +15

    What is that chant at ~ 2:00? Would really be a good background when reading the article. Editing is fantastic. This video is so well done, damn, really looking forward to see the documentary. Thumbs up!

  • @theyliveglasses4667
    @theyliveglasses4667 5 лет назад +1

    Great work as usual, Mike. This a really useful resource and a good appetiser to get people intrigued and wanting to see what is going on with this stuff.

  • @thesoundsofonehandclapping
    @thesoundsofonehandclapping 5 лет назад

    Mike Nayna, please use music like this in the official documentary. Furthermore, this video was absolutely, hauntingly beautiful, as well as terrifying. It shook me in just the right way. Great job editing all of this and I'm so absolutely stoked to see the official documentary that'll come out in due time.
    For the time being, thank you for all of the work you guys are doing. The world is watching. :)
    Cheers!

  • @randomgirl3492
    @randomgirl3492 5 лет назад +12

    Well I'm scared now

  • @marcusanark2541
    @marcusanark2541 4 года назад +2

    Incredible montage! This video deserves much more views.

  • @gregballard7438
    @gregballard7438 3 года назад

    Great video! Very well put together. I like the slow escalation of the dramatic music to boot

  • @daryx.langdale
    @daryx.langdale 3 года назад +1

    I could never quite wrap my head around why exactly some of the ideas that have become ingested into mainstream conversation were so dangerous. This video does such a great job of bringing that into high relief.

  • @nathancarey4514
    @nathancarey4514 5 лет назад +2

    Thank-you, thank-you! These arguments have been developing for a long time but having these intercut examples provide concrete, salient examples that I can point to. Many thanks. You're pulling the subterranean out into the light!

  • @ecklunddavid
    @ecklunddavid 5 лет назад +12

    This is one of the most important videos on youtube. Wow.

  • @nelsonman1231
    @nelsonman1231 5 лет назад +1

    I love the choice of music, very nice touch to properly make that connection you’re trying to make

  • @kyiton321
    @kyiton321 5 лет назад +2

    This was brilliant. I have also been studying religious psychology over the past couple of years and I have seen these similarities as well. I am so glad you made this video. It reflects my own thoughts almost perfectly.

  • @rafal5863
    @rafal5863 5 лет назад +12

    Thank you for formerly describing the social justice crusade.

  • @enn1chma
    @enn1chma 5 лет назад +24

    The Cult of Social Justice

  • @jeremytaylorfrancisgleaves3854
    @jeremytaylorfrancisgleaves3854 5 лет назад +2

    Great article! I wish more people who wrote great articles would have more video introductions

  • @essiotll
    @essiotll 5 лет назад +4

    Great compilation - you guys are doing important work!

  • @Amocoru
    @Amocoru 5 лет назад +6

    These videos deserve so many more views.

  • @Milanvaneijk
    @Milanvaneijk 5 лет назад +1

    Again brilliantly edited! Really good.

  • @TheAnointedSamurai
    @TheAnointedSamurai 5 лет назад

    The soundtrack is ill my dude!!!!👊🏾😎
    I hope there'll be a longer format.

  • @elizadances
    @elizadances 5 лет назад

    Thank you for this! It’s an idea I too have had for some time, and it’s relieving to see others such as yourself also come to the same conclusion and speak up about it

  • @RCCarDude
    @RCCarDude 5 лет назад +6

    Social Justice is absolutely a neo-religion. Best to abstain from this stuff if you truly care about justice.

  • @jacobconnolly273
    @jacobconnolly273 4 года назад +2

    The Megyn Kelly part is scary, she truly got memory holed. Forced to publicly apologize and atone, then discarded entirely. Now she is radioactive to both the left and the right. It is astonishing how people get railroaded.

  • @didjesbydan
    @didjesbydan 3 года назад +1

    Carl Jung predicted we would see the religious displacement he talks about at 1:40-2:00 minutes in. I think it was in "Man and His Symbols" where he wrote at length on the topic of how people lacking religion will continue to act out its basic shapes, but in the context of stateism.

  • @lionardo
    @lionardo 4 года назад +3

    Watching this during the protests and I have to say that I am shocked by the accuracy and the parallels to religion. When will the full documentary be released?

  • @MCNOISE666
    @MCNOISE666 5 лет назад +3

    We all knew it, but seeing it done so well, it has impact that could be useful in waking more ppl up. Great work, thankyou!

  • @camskea
    @camskea 5 лет назад +2

    Wow Mike, just wow.
    Awesome video, great content, fantastic editing.
    I'd love to see a feature length version of this, can we crowdfund it or something?

    • @MikeNayna
      @MikeNayna  5 лет назад +1

      Thanks. I'm actually working on a feature doc now. If you'd like to help me with post production you can do it here - www.patreon.com/mikenayna - or here - paypal.me/mikenayna .

  • @debblouin
    @debblouin 4 года назад +4

    The chief difference is that for the progressive, there is no God.
    Social justice has no atonement, no propitiation, no forgiveness, no redemption.

  • @HalfMonty11
    @HalfMonty11 5 лет назад +4

    wow... this is incredibly well put together

  • @geofherb1
    @geofherb1 5 лет назад +3

    Your stuff is absolutely brilliant, I think it really brings home just what we are facing. For anyone who hasn't, check out the work of John McWhorter, who has some great work along the same lines.

  • @chimerawizard5639
    @chimerawizard5639 5 лет назад +20

    Too good! I wonder how long before it's taken down or put in limited state.

  • @Bat0541
    @Bat0541 5 лет назад +5

    Mike, you never cease to amaze me, great editing, and wonderfully put together, this is one of your best videos yet.

  • @stephenbradley445
    @stephenbradley445 4 года назад

    Divide and rule, or as we know it, divide and conquer, is a ubiquitous strategy for entrenched power to maintain the status quo. Per wikipedia:
    Elements of this technique involve:
    1) creating or encouraging divisions among the subjects to prevent alliances that could challenge the sovereign
    2) aiding and promoting those who are willing to cooperate with the sovereign
    3) fostering distrust and enmity between local rulers
    4) encouraging meaningless expenditures that reduce the capability for political and military spending
    What stands out to me in light of the last bullet point is that organizations like NAACP and ADL are going to spend all their resources focusing on "the right" and the right will spend its resources defending against the left while the foot-soldiers of the left and right alike will continue to pay the interest on their debt, to overpay for health care goods and services, and to embrace a culture of wanton consumption.

  • @burnonedown2day
    @burnonedown2day 4 месяца назад

    Great editing!

  • @EndaBrody
    @EndaBrody 5 лет назад +1

    Can't wait for this film..!!!

  • @evanaristotle3130
    @evanaristotle3130 4 года назад

    Chilling.
    Nice work, Mike 👍

  • @christopher_schwab
    @christopher_schwab 5 лет назад +1

    The church music in the background was a great touch!

  • @tylerwhitney3443
    @tylerwhitney3443 4 года назад +2

    for me as a staunch skeptic, this really hits home as a great anology.

  • @driveagoodmanbad642
    @driveagoodmanbad642 4 года назад

    From W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming": The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."

  • @jude4141
    @jude4141 5 лет назад +1

    Excellent! Fantastic video, well done

  • @MJS2376
    @MJS2376 5 лет назад

    Incredible useful & timely work! Thank you James and Mike! I think it would add to the video to contrast the religion of SJ with religions other than (in addition to) Christianity - Islam, Judaism etc.

  • @DAKono
    @DAKono 5 лет назад +1

    I was just thinking about this comparison. Great video

  • @Neiljjm
    @Neiljjm 5 лет назад +1

    Fascinating subject matter!! Would love to know what the choral piece playing in the background is.

  • @_datapoint
    @_datapoint 5 лет назад +1

    Looking forward to more.

  • @ZimbaZumba
    @ZimbaZumba 4 года назад +3

    This video is simply 'divine', lol. One of my favourites on RUclips.

  • @davidmcrae4791
    @davidmcrae4791 5 лет назад

    Awesome way to tell people about your writings

  • @FrancisRoyCA
    @FrancisRoyCA 5 лет назад +2

    This was brilliantly done.

  • @kadsenkalle4663
    @kadsenkalle4663 5 лет назад +6

    This is brilliant and somewhat scary. Thanks Mike.

    • @kadsenkalle4663
      @kadsenkalle4663 5 лет назад

      Big Thank you also to Helen, James and Peter.

  • @dominikwarzocha4000
    @dominikwarzocha4000 5 лет назад +2

    Amazing parallels. Transcendent video. Bravo.

  • @hello15848
    @hello15848 5 лет назад +3

    Chills! This is quite revealing!

  • @robintropper660
    @robintropper660 5 лет назад +2

    says it alll ..... big time congratulations on a really thought-provoking, reflexive and even artistic documentary on "the other side of the coin" .... this is Jungian shadow work at its best.

  • @tag7299
    @tag7299 5 лет назад

    The ending of the video always has me in tears.

  • @nathanieljames7462
    @nathanieljames7462 4 года назад +7

    This got my heart racing.
    Not in a good way.
    I knew that was a reason I hated this postmodern movement.
    It's entreched in the same kind of anti-reason insanity I was born into; The Apostolic Church of the Pentecost.

  • @ManchesterKungFu
    @ManchesterKungFu 5 лет назад +7

    Brilliant and chilling.

  • @AreCatsGay
    @AreCatsGay 5 лет назад +1

    Possibly the best video I've ever seen on the subject

  • @neodonkey
    @neodonkey 5 лет назад +1

    Brilliant work!

  • @rakheshpm
    @rakheshpm 5 лет назад

    Fantastic video!

  • @lukesalazar9283
    @lukesalazar9283 5 лет назад +2

    I enjoy the fact you point this out so clearly. Thank you

  • @holy_braille
    @holy_braille 5 лет назад +2

    "The goal of eliminating violence." Good luck with that...it's on the hard drive.

  • @gypster2004
    @gypster2004 5 лет назад +2

    Great video! Now make one comparing religious thinking to the belief in government authority lol

  • @br3ntor
    @br3ntor 5 лет назад +1

    Can you tell me the name of the first song in this video? You have great music in all your videos, it would be awesome if you could add the artist/song info in the description!

  • @alexandercamlin8889
    @alexandercamlin8889 5 лет назад +11

    As much as this movement frightens me, I do hope that this documentary humanizes these people, and doesn't only portray this movement as something to demonize and mock. Like we do to the Christian Fundamentalists.
    I went to a vigil the other night for sex workers. The non-profit that organized the event is very much a part of this milieu. I was asked for my pronouns and had a nametag made with them. After the vigil, people came up to read the testimonies of other sex workers, prefacing their performances with an obligatory confession of their relevant privileges. It was a bit uncomfortable, as it usually is being an outsider, but it was also enlightening and humbling.
    Religions serve real human needs. And this one only exists, in large part, because our religions have rejected these people. I saw the same thing in my time at a Buddhist Monastery, many of the people coming there were LGBTQ+. These people are starving spiritually, and I think we have to take some responsibility for not providing a better alternative to whatever this movement is.
    I observe a strange aggregation taking place between marxism, postmodernism, queer theory, intersectional feminism, and satanism/occultism. Almost as if every disparate mode of being that was rejected in the old value systems have now merged into one thing.

  • @GordonWells
    @GordonWells 4 года назад

    Looking forward to the full feature! Have you considered a similar look at pomo on the right? Wtf is actually going with *chan, frog-, npc-memes etc? Andrew Breitbart also looks like a potentially interesting case

  • @Strelnikov10
    @Strelnikov10 5 лет назад +1

    We've found the perfect way to fight against this disease. Excellent job to the three of you! Let's hope this will spark a return to sanity.

  • @ericandi
    @ericandi 4 года назад

    This needs to be a full length Michael Moore-type documentary.

  • @amyzdrzalka7661
    @amyzdrzalka7661 5 лет назад +1

    Great work!!!

  • @kimberlyowen3962
    @kimberlyowen3962 5 лет назад

    This is so important. The likes of James Damore, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and, of course, Mike Nayna for putting these out there are fucking heroes in my eyes and not enough people are taking them seriously. The youths who walked out of the James Damore talk didn't even know why they were offended and that's terrifying.

  • @highpriestofgavinalmightyh1304
    @highpriestofgavinalmightyh1304 5 лет назад +1

    Very important work.