People are noticing issues and sensing that something is off. Perhaps they’ve seen problems in their industry, strange school curriculum, media spin, or increased crime. At first, it’s rationalized as issues that society has always dealt with before, a small fringe group, a few bad actors, or a lapse in judgement. People trust society has leaders and institutions in place to mitigate these issues. However, the issues not only persist but are increasing, the values they are hold are being ridiculed, and their own lives are being effected more by the day. What’s different this time is the leaders in positions of authority, the powerful elite, are reducing liberty and intentionally transforming society in order to centralize power.1
The powerful elite are in all areas of society: government, business, philanthropy, non-governmental organizations, religion, and academia. They espouse utopian values including world peace and ending poverty; however, the value they actually hold is accumulating power. They want to centralize power such that they control speech, allocate resources, determine economic outcomes, set social norms, direct academia, and ultimately dictate the will of the people. This requires society to transform from a liberal society with individual freedom to an illiberal society controlled by the elite. In order to transform society, they believe in a revolutionary ideology which operates by infiltrating and destroying existing governments, businesses, religious institutions, media, and civil society from within. In this ideology, the aim of knowledge itself is directed away from objective truth and towards centralizing power. To advance their agenda, the elite have general tactics they use such as manipulating language, taking advantage of a crisis, and sowing division. Finally, the elite currently have specific projects in place that are working towards their goal of centralizing power.
1. The Powerful Elite and Their Vision
The World Economic Forum (WEF) lead by Klaus Schwab is a good microcosm of the elite and their vision which includes leaders and organizations across governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and religious organizations. The WEF also has a young leaders program to groom up and coming leaders. Their vision is described in books by Schwab like The Great Reset, The Great Narrative, and Stakeholder Capitalism as well as the WEF’s 2030 vision. In short, they want to centralize control in a ruling class through governments, international organizations and/or international companies.2
Additional elite organizations and people include the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), George Soros’s Open Society, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation as well as government leaders such as Justin Trudeau, business leaders such as Larry Fink, religious leaders such as Pope Francis, philanthropists such as Bill Gates, and technologists such as Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. Within the government, this includes un-elected administrative state bureaucrats in departments such as the Fed (technically private with a government issued monopoly), the FBI, the CDC, and the EPA. Their vision is also seen in programs such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Circular Economy, and Agenda 30.
The elite position themselves as acting in the global public interest while upholding moral and intellectual integrity.3 While they make lofty and benevolent claims, their aim is to take full control4 and manipulate5 the population instead of empowering people and being accountable. In practice, this means they want to be the ones to shape and control society regardless of the truth or the cost to ordinary people. Un-elected bureaucrats and powerful elite will decide which stakeholders to account for and how to equitably use, measure and distribute resources, profit, goods and services. This is open collusion and racketeering to subvert governments from representing their people and businesses from competing in an open market.6 In short, they want to centralize all power in their hands.
They sell the public on utopian values including: sacrificing the individual for the collective,7 equitable outcomes,8 eliminating poverty,9 eliminating violence,10 and combating climate change.11 They believe the experts (aka themselves)12 are the ones to engineer society, to determine what is good, to determine what makes people happy, to best allocate resources, and ultimately to set the limited range for people to live within. Because they believe they alone should rule, the ends always justifies the means. Any and all amount of deception, lies, and oppression is acceptable when it advances their cause.13 The more power they attain, the more censorship, coercion and violence they will use to hold and expand their power.14
2. Transforming Society
To realize their vision, the elites need to destroy the existing liberal institutions and culture, and then install a centralized illiberal society.15 Broadly speaking, they are implementing top-down, inside-out, and bottom-up strategies all at the same time.16 From the top-down, they are getting their adherents into positions of power to implement policies, laws, and projects. From the inside-out, they are utilizing propaganda to change culture in society and companies to create a spirit of the times in support of their projects. From the bottom-up, they are utilizing activists, employees, and customer demand to push for their projects. This puts pressure on everyday people, mid-level management and others to go along with the transformation. These are similar to techniques used in the Chinese cultural revolution to destroy the “Four Olds” (ideas, culture, customs, and habits)17 and by the vanguard of the Russian Bolshevik revolution.18
The elites operate like organized crime with loose collaboration and are not a single institution or hierarchy following strict orders or a hard timeline. There is in-fighting between factions of the elites, and there is not always explicit co-ordination. Some elites may see what one group does that works and copy or go along with it. Even their vision of a centralized society doesn’t necessitate exactly what it will look like in practice. For example, there may or may not be a world government or there may only be a need for international corporations. However, they know who their common enemies are, and they will continue to push to eliminate all liberal and decentralized aspects of society to complete the transformation and take full control.19
3. Ideology
The elite believe in and promulgate a revolutionary ideology with the promise of utopia in order to have more people accept their rule. This allows them to gain support and minimize resistance to centralizing power. Instead of creating or supporting a single cohesive group of say communists, fascists or social democrats, they work to have aspects of their ideology introduced and adopted by a myriad of groups to various degrees.20 It’s not a simple matter of people out there saying “we are Identity-Marxists” and trying to gain or force converts to Identity-Marxism. In fact, some people will either knowingly or unwittingly claim to be against the elite and centralization of power while supporting their values and projects. Thus, conservatives, liberals, moderates, Christians, Muslims, etc. may all potentially adopt values that help further the elite agenda.21
Dialectical Leftism is the engine of elite ideology.22 It believes there is a cyclical process that unfolds through history until humanity is perfected and utopia is achieved,23 where there is no more hierarchy,24 no more oppressors. This is not done by incrementally improving conditions or creating a better place. Absolute perfection is achieved through airing grievances, exacerbating contradictions and destroying the existing society to release the utopia contained within it.25 Moreover, instead of believing in a knowable objective reality with a fixed human nature,26 they believe humans create themselves completely through society and this dialectical process. Thus, they will always support revolution even if it leads to unknown or worse objective outcomes for humanity.27 For the dialectical left, destructive revolution is the only progress and destructive revolution is always progress. The latest ideas that the dialectic has produced are Critical Social Justice and Sustainability.
Critical Social Justice (a.k.a. woke) is being used to indoctrinate people and institutions to align with the elite agenda.28 This includes critical race theory (CRT),29 gender ideology, queer theory, and the whole range of “critical” disciplines. Critical Social Justice is not critical thinking,30 is not social justice, and it does not continue the civil rights movement.31 Instead, Critical Social Justice breeds discontent and a victim mentality.32 It divides people into an intersectional hierarchy with groups of oppressors and oppressed based on various characteristics and group membership.33 This coerces people to either become activists for the elite agenda, people who won’t speak out against the agenda or people who can no longer function in their own in society.34 The goal of Critical Social Justice is to force equal outcomes which can only be determined by Critical Social Justice experts. This is all another way of saying the ultimate goal is communism.35
Sustainability is, broadly speaking, the concept that a process or society should be maintainable indefinitely into the future and never run out of resources to sustain itself. This requires complete predictability based on existing technology and knowledge. Thus, Sustainability requires control to ensure predictability. There can be no spontaneous order, no individual ingenuity. This conveniently aligns the elite’s utopian values and push for centralized control across governments and businesses. Sustainability is used to centralize power instead of dealing with real and practical issues related to the environment and other areas.36
In order to influence people beyond social justice warriors and environmental extremists, the elite are pushing to infuse the ideas of Critical Social Justice and Sustainability into seminary schools, religious programs, business training and practices, K-12 schools, universities, NGO goals, entertainment, and more.37 If there is push back to these ideas or if they utterly fail, this won’t deter the elite. The dialectic will progress and another wave of new utopian ideas will be promulgated.38
4. Transformation Tactics
The following general tactics are employed in a range of scenarios to advance the elite agenda to transform society and centralize control.
Crisis
Any crisis, however large or small, is used to further centralize power and restrict individual freedoms permanently through fear and the promise of safety. In 2001, the Patriot Act authorized surveillance of everyone, expanded secret courts, and limited privacy rights.39 40 In 2008, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Dodd-Frank Act bailed out wall street, made the big banks bigger,41 and gave the government more control over banks.42 In 2020, the federal Stafford Act, Defense Production Act, numerous Covid relief acts, and similar state measures allowed for emergency powers to suspend property rights, limit personal liberties,43 and for more direct control of the economy from the administrative state favoring big business.44 45 Even when a crisis is caused by the elite or was preventable by the elite, the response to any crisis is always to centralize power even more. The elite will always deflect any and all blame related to a crisis. Climate change is being treated as an existential risk based on unreliable models46 with proposed solutions that don’t even address the risk. This is being used as a cover to centrally control the energy and food supplies to intentionally create scarcity.47 A crisis enables greater control of the people who are put in a state of fear, focused on basic survival, focused on getting through the crisis, more willing to sacrifice rights, and give more power to the elite.48
Language Games
People advancing the elite agenda don’t speak plainly and use different meanings of the same word.49 They value power over objective truth and will insist on understanding terms based on power dynamics instead of objective meaning. For example, “inclusion” is commonly understood to mean welcoming and involving everyone. However, Critical Social Justice addresses historical injustice and making people feel comfortable, so that “inclusion” means being politically correct, being intolerant, limiting who can speak, and even excluding people from being present based on their identity.50
They use their own self-created technical jargon in order to obfuscate what’s going on and create an air of authority. For example, take the sentence “this study is based on the auto-ethnographies of eight cisgender males”. This simply means the study is based on the self-reported stories of eight men. Moreover, the elite “experts” use their technical jargon and self-proclaimed deeper understanding of words to claim authority and control. They want everyone to defer judgement and always look to the elite experts for answers and to understand the world based on the elites’ values.51
They use a rhetorical technique to implement radical change with the use of benevolent and mundane words and phrases.52 Instead of arguing the merits of the radical transformation of society, which is what they want and are doing, they will argue vague and trivial true statements such as “black lives matter”, “it’s just acknowledging gay people exist”, “it’s just...”, “it’s just...”. After the trivial statement is accepted, they then proceed using a radical interpretation of what was agreed to. This is especially an issue with policy where well-intentioned laws or procedure can be manipulated to introduce radical change through the manipulation of the meaning of words. It’s a rhetorical bait and switch where they sell people on a benign meaning while they really have a revolutionary meaning and intent.
They accuse their opposition of engaging in nefarious acts, censorship, and lies which they themselves are doing. They’ll also flatly deny any accusation and evidence against them. This manipulation is done to make their opponents look crazy, have people doubt themselves, and to discredit their opposition.53
Critique Everything Else
They ruthlessly criticize all opposition, liberal institutions, and existing systems of checks and balances such that they should be completely torn down instead of improved. Any imperfection is exploited no matter how significant or relevant, while anything positive is ignored or discounted.54 All opposition and historical figures are branded as bigots, homophobic, etc. and cast aside. They continually call something racist in order to control it.55 The solution is never to improve things, but always to abolish them.56 Yet, any person or institution aligned with the elite agenda escapes all criticism.57 Moreover, they denounce the world even when they get what they want.58 It’s never far enough.59
Approaches to ignore objective reality and corrupt science include pushing for other ways of knowing,60 favoring lived experience,61 and having people in power reflect what the community looks like.62 This puts the focus on power and activism instead of dealing with objective reality and competence.
Corruption
The elite set up “controlled opposition” or “contained opposition”, where there is the appearance of checks and balances, the appearance of opposition, but the elite corrupt it by taking over and running the regulators, running the opposition, or making sure the opposition doesn’t have meaningful power.
Government has a revolving door with the industries they regulate where the same people move between government and industry63 64 and may even share the same public relations firm.65 The government is funded by special interests66 and are not directly accountable to the people they are supposed to represent. More power is being given over to the un-elected administrative organizations such as the CDC, FDA, EPA, CIA, and more.67 Also, laws in congress are written directly by special interest lawyers.68 Finally, government officials receive kickbacks through insider trading,69 lucrative book deals,70 and speaking tours.71
Propaganda
Much of the corporate news is owned and controlled the elite.72 They either don’t report on, limit the reach, or censor facts and viewpoints that go against the agenda. They are focused on activism and not on being objective.73 This is also true for the fact checking organizations which are designed to help suppress opposing views.74 Polling is intentionally inaccurate to manipulate voting and campaign donations.75 They use unverified leaked information (in some cases information planted by the elite), biased experts, and rumors on the Internet to shape their narrative and coverage.76 They push the elite agenda as opposed to acting as a check against abuse of power or informing the public.77 Moreover, entertainment produced by the corporate media is also being infused with Critical Social Justice.78 79 80 81
Divide the People
The elite work to keep the people divided so they can’t effectively unite in opposition to the elite and their agenda.
One division is between Republicans and Democrats. While this is also a case of controlled opposition where the elite have a large influence on both parties,82 it’s useful to have the people focus on other issues that divide them. Let some people rail against Big Government and others rail against Big Corporations, all the while both are getting bigger. This way people are more concerned about being a Democrat or Republican instead of being American and uniting against the elite.83 Moreover, if resistance to the elite starts building in one party, then they will be more easily isolated and unable to gain any support from sympathetic people in the other party.84
Identity politics views people in terms of good identities and bad identities. Good identities are oppressed victims and bad identities are oppressors. They want people to try to find a way to join or support oppressed groups. This is similar to what Mao did when he created five red categories (good) and five black categories (bad).85
They want the focus on party politics, individual leaders, and identity groups instead of discussing the issues, holding people in power accountable, and decentralizing power. They always look for ways to divide people that oppose any part of their agenda. For example, the medical establishment wants doctors and nurses to focus on their divisive issues instead of pushing back against the corporate takeover of the medical industry. In education, they want the focus on school choice instead of the corporate and federal takeover of curriculum and teacher certification.86 These are all valid issues to debate, but it can prevent push back and opposition to the centralization of power.
Flood the Zone
The elite are relentless and never tire.87 They have already accrued large amounts of wealth and power that they put to work. They launch specific projects to incrementally obtain more power. They get as much as possible with each project, and then they move on the next project. In addition to media propaganda, they sponsor activists and academics to generate copious amounts of material, biased papers, and biased studies. Moreover, they repackage their existing ideas and agenda to make it sound new or to tailor it for a specific audience.88 Thus, if people push back against a specific project or debunk a single paper, then there are thousands more out there and more to come. It’s meant to demoralize people and manipulate as many people as possible.
Thought Reform
Behavioral economics is used to consistently coerce people to voluntarily restrict their own behavior and support elite projects.89 Currently, this is done through political correctness and training courses. In addition to vague and questionable policies, social media bans and shadow-bans all cast wide nets ensnaring innocent users, which hinders small businesses from making money,90 artists from advertising, and even parents from co-ordinating with schools.91 In more extreme cases, people lose their jobs and other opportunities if they don’t comply with or speak out against the agenda.92 As bad as the current situation is, the elites want to further mine personal data to create personalized incentives and disincentives to affect behavior change in more detailed ways. They want to track every item purchased in real time as well as a person’s carbon footprint, health, and current state of emotion. They provide people with prompts, incentives, and disincentives on the correct behavior that aligns with the elite agenda. The constant and repeated manipulation of choices is meant to seamlessly change peoples actual beliefs to align with elite values.93
Provocation
The elite and their adherents will deliberately do something offensive or on the edge of the law or social norms in order to advance their agenda. If there is no reaction, then they advance their cause a little and their adversaries lose credibility and are demoralized. If there is a reaction, then they’ll ask why anyone cares, why are people making it an issue, etc. They will always frame the reaction as an over-reaction in order to get public perception and support on their side. They want their adversaries to be punished severely for the reaction.94 95
5. Projects for Transformation
The following are specific projects for transforming society into an illiberal society with centralized control across various industries and aspects of life.
Currently, the two key projects are Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).96 ESG is a social credit score used to coerce governments, finance and business to adopt centralized control and participate in social engineering.97 SEL is used in education to data mine children to build psychological profiles for behavioral manipulation. It also trains them to be psychologically vulnerable and incapable of functioning independently in a free society. SEL is designed to train children to want centralized control or at the very least to accept it without resistance.98 Thus, ESG is bringing in centralized control and SEL is training the next generation to want it and accept it.
ESG
ESG is a social credit score for businesses with metrics determined arbitrarily by the elite to serve different stakeholders. The stakeholders are items like the environment, the “oppressed”, and so on. This score is increasingly important for businesses in order to get loans and investment from groups like BlackRock. Thus, the elite can manipulate ESG scores to put pressure or force businesses to support their agenda. This is why Sri Lanka adopted ESG policies which then contributed to food shortages.99
DEI
In order to get a better ESG score, businesses may implement Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)100 programs, cut back on fossil fuels, etc. DEI programs in businesses promote Critical Social Justice propaganda in corporate culture and policies. Diversity puts the focus on identity groups based on Critical Social Justice.101 Inclusion means creating a safe space to celebrate and actively affirm identity groups while at the same time excluding those who dissent against Critical Social Justice.102 The purpose of diversity and inclusion is to push for equity in culture and policy. Equity is a core value of the elite which means to force equal outcomes.103 The DEI programs weed out those who don’t adopt the elite values and drive the business to support the elite agenda. Employees who adopt and support DEI initiatives are promoted and given advantages. Dissidents will quit, be fired, or remain silenced and neutralized.104
Technocratic Control
Technology companies, in addition to adopting ESG and DEI, are information gatekeepers, propagandists and key to technocratic control. They share all user information with the government.105 They censor information, limit the reach of information, and drive people to information that supports the elite agenda.106 107 Instead of giving people control over their news feed, data privacy, and allowing data to be hosted anywhere, they build walled gardens and keep centralized control.108
Religious Institutions
Religious institutions are being infused with Critical Social Justice and being used to advance the elite agenda.109 110 The Southern Baptist Convention voted to include CRT as a tool for teaching in seminaries.111 Influential pastor Rick Warren attends WEF meetings to help push their agenda.112 Pope Francis has spoken out against private property and in support of collectivism.113 Religious institutions are seen by the elite as a tool to instill new values into society to enable their economic and social policies to centralize power.114
Science
Science is being corrupted and used for political ends at the expense of knowledge. There is a reproduce-ability crisis where the results of studies can not be independently duplicated.115 The “critical” disciplines, which are the foundation for Critical Social Justice, are so detached from reality and the scientific method that hoax papers were published and won an award in leading journals.116 117 Moreover, the hard sciences are also affected, with clinical trials manipulated to support the industries that fund them.118 Scientific publications119 and organizations120 have embraced Critical Social Justice and censoring any science that challenges it. As Eisenhower warned, the formalization and cost of performing science has been corrupted to support big business and political agendas over objective knowledge.121 Funding, promotions and publications are granted based on science that aligns with the elite agenda.122 The politicization of science we are seeing now is what Stalin did in communist Russia and what Mao did in China which caused the starvation of millions.123 Objective knowledge and rigorous scientific procedures are being replaced by other ways of knowing and unscientific methodology in all fields: geology, math, computer science, social science, medical science and more.124
Healthcare
The healthcare industry is run by large pharmaceutical and insurance companies.125 Doctors have to follow pre-determined protocols for dealing with patients.126 They are not allowed to make independent decisions or even allowed to speak out without having their licenses revoked.127 128 There is no point in getting a second opinion when all the doctors have to prescribe the same thing or else face consequences.
Education
Education is focused on making children politically literate instead of teaching them reading, writing, arithmetic, and how to succeed in society.129 Critical Social Justice indoctrinates children to think about their class identity and victimization.130 In fact, the theory underlying teacher training explicitly doesn’t want children to learn and be successful in society since that will only re-create the problems that we see in the existing society.131 Social and emotional learning (SEL) are programs in schools (pre-K through 12) used to data mine children to build psychological profiles in order to manipulate them with their emotional triggers.132 In the worst cases, it sexualizes kids at early ages because it is effective at destabilization. This is done to make them more amenable to indoctrination and alienate them from their family and community. This is used to manipulate children to either adopt elite values or at the least to be docile enough to accept or even demand centralized control.133 The goal is to destabilize society to the point where there is no longer agreement on what is reasonable (e.g., “What is a woman?” requires an expert to answer it),134 no shared cultural foundations (e.g., the founding period of the US),135 and rendering people incapable of functioning in society on their own. All of which helps destroy the existing society and usher in centralized control.
Law
In the legal realm, activist judges are undermining free speech,136 freedom of religion,137 and parental rights.138 139 The legal system is being weaponized to prosecute and harass dissidents of the elite agenda.140 The American Bar Association is pushing to require Critical Social Justice training for accreditation.141
Global Governance
An up and coming project is global governance. This starts with references to global citizenship and calls for digital currencies and identity. As nations experience economic recessions, conflicts, and immigration issues due to elitist policies, there will be overtures towards more global governance as the solution.142 Centralized digital currencies and identifications enable behavioral coercion for individuals at a global level based on detailed, personalized psychological profiles and behavior.143
6. What Can You Do?
The powerful elite have continual efforts to centralize power and control in big business, big government, and international organizations across all areas of society. These leaders are corrupting systems of checks and balances to ensure their increased control with minimal to no accountability. Moreover, they are infusing cultural and educational institutions with propaganda in order to minimize opposition and create demand for centralized control. Businesses, religious organizations, universities and scientific organizations are sacrificing their integrity to support the political agenda. As the elite accrue more influence, access to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness is slowly being taken away. They will not only outright restrict speech and actions, but employ behavioral economics in order to coerce people to say and do what they want. Instead of a spontaneous order of people freely thinking, deciding and making agreements on their own, there will be a sustainable, determined order managed by the elites. Self-governance is being dismantled piece by piece.
However, the success of the elite is not inevitable. A greater understanding of what the elite are doing, why they are doing it, and how they are doing it, helps determine how to stop the centralization of the power and support individual freedom. So now the question is what can you do?144
Endnotes
1The elites are looking to establish “an information socialism totally under oligarchical technocratic control.” Lindsay, James. “Welcome to the Second Enlightenment.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 51, 20 October 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/welcome-to-the-second-enlightenment/
2Schwab wants a new social contract where "they are the stakeholders and you are the serfs.” Lindsay, James. “A Social Contract for the New World Order.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 13, 30 June 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/social-contract-new-world-order/
3"The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does...” World Economic Forum. “Our Mission.” Accessed 24 October 2022, https://www.weforum.org/about/world-economic-forum/
4“...there is always a group of power-hungry doctrinaires and exploiters, ready to take your money and to order your actions and your life.” Hornshaw, Mark. “Is ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ Newspeak for Economic Fascism?” FEE Stories, 23 January 2021, https://fee.org/articles/is-stakeholder-capitalism-newspeak-for-economic-fascism/
5"The tyranny and brainwashing of today will be through digital gulags, which amount to using digital devices and technology to control and contour behavior, including through social-credit programs, while re-educating people into the Neo-Communist ideology behind these totalitarian agendas…” Lindsay, James. “21st Century Re-Education, The Digital Gulag” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 15, 4 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/21st-century-re-education-digital-gulag/
6"This is criminal racketeering using what looks like a responsible measurement tool as the mechanism so nobody is directly responsible for engaging in what is really a mob shakedown of corporations.” Drukier, Cindy. "James Lindsay: ESG Credit Scoring a Financial Gun to Head of Corporate America” The Nation Speaks, 23 July 2022, https://www.theepochtimes.com/james-lindsay-esg-credit-scoring-a-financial-gun-to-head-of-corporate-america_4617712.html
7“...individuals must contribute to changing unsustainable consumption and production patterns, including through the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance to strengthen developing countries’ scientific, technological and innovative capacities to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.” United Nations. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/1
8“Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources.” United Nations. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/1
9“We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.” United Nations. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/1
10“We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.” United Nations. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/1
11“Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.” United Nations. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/1
12"Solving the collective challenges of today and tomorrow requires leadership from and coordination of the global business community more than ever before. The World Economic Forum is perhaps the best, and certainly the most significant, global gathering of corporate leaders and those with the resources to make a difference at the scale needed today.” Burke-White, William. “The World Economic Forum deserves criticism, but we need it now more than ever”, Brookings Order From Chaos, 28 January 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/01/28/the-world-economic-forum-deserves-criticism-but-we-need-it-now-more-than-ever/
13This lecture series explains the repressive tolerance of Herbert Marcuse where “movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent, while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence”. Lindsay, James. “How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 17, 26 January 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/how-not-to-resolve-the-paradox-of-tolerance/
14The utopian view leads to a psuedo-reality with paramorality. "The goal of the paramorality is to socially enforce the belief that good people accept the paramorality and attendant pseudo-reality while everyone else is morally deficient and evil. That is, it is an inversion of morality, the slave morality as described by Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals...The trend toward puritan-style pietism, authoritarianism, and eventually totalitarianism in application of this paramorality is a virtual certainty of acceptance of an ideological pseudo-reality, and these abuses will be visited not only on every participant in the constructed fictional reality but also to everyone who can be found or placed within its shadow.” Lindsay, James. “Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism” New Discourses Article, 25 December 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism/
15They want "a revolutionary remake of the system, with themselves in charge, this positions them against liberalism and, in fact, of the opinion that liberalism is problematic because it made itself resistant to sudden change.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Liberalism.” Accessed 24 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-liberalism/
16“I take you through the top-down, bottom-up, inside-outside strategy of Woke institutional takeover…” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy.” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 47, 16 June 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/onlysubs-breaking-the-woke-strategy/
17“The four olds in China had to be done away with...That’s what happened in China, that’s what’s been happening in the United States since the 1960’s.” Lindsay, James. “Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 16, 21 January 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/antonio-gramsci-cultural-marxism-wokeness-leninism/
18"Leninism is this idea that the proletariat are not going to wake up for themselves. So they need this group of elites, technically people within the bourgeoisie (So rich people with lots of spare time and lots of angst against the society) that are going to become deep into the ideology of Marxism and then they will shepherd the proletariat through the revolution.” Lindsay, James. “Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 16, 21 January 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/antonio-gramsci-cultural-marxism-wokeness-leninism/
19"The details aren’t meant to be known or told; they’re meant to be figured out. This is in exact alignment with the historicism in Marx’s dialectical materialism: once we get capitalism out of the way, we’ll enter a worker-managed system (socialism) that can start figuring out how to make the state redundant to its purposes, at which point a stateless improvement of the same will emerge and the communist utopia (and end of History) will emerge.” Lindsay, James. “Communism Doesn’t Know How.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 31, 23 April 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/communism-doesnt-know-how/
20“Their goal is actually to infiltrate things like institutions and change them from within…” Lindsay, James. “A Summary of Neo-Marxism.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 38, 3 June 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/summary-neo-marxism/
21“...they (almost unbelievably) characterize viruses like those named above and also cancer as an ideal metaphor for what their ideology hopes to accomplish and how it should do it.” Lindsay, James. “The Virus of Critical Social Justice.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 40, 12 June 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/virus-critical-social-justice/
22“He makes the case that Leftism since Hegel thinks dialectically, moves dialectically, and applies dialectical thought not just to its targets but to everything, including itself and even its own dialectic…Hegel is a key progenitor of communism, liberationism, and ultimately Wokeness…” Lindsay, James. “Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 37, 28 May 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/05/hegel-wokeness-and-the-dialectical-faith-of-leftism/
23"...the Hegelian dialectical leftist thought becoming a transformation, a process of transformation, is the essence of reality. It’s not a world that is. It’s not a God that is. It is a God and world that are in the process of becoming through the processes of human beings discovering how things are actually opposed to one another....the long march of the Dialectic that unfairness of administered equality, equity, that turns into justice all by itself, which is what Marx called communism, which is when we realize we are truly social beings who completely and willfully and eagerly and willingly absolutely for every level redistribute social, cultural, and economic capital because it’s just the way we do. It’s not even the right thing to do, because it’s what we truly are as people.” Lindsay, James. “Understanding the Dialectic.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 21, 29 September 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/09/understanding-dialectic/
24"It arises from a singular error, which is the inability to perceive the legitimacy of a legitimate hierarchy, and thus proceeds by means of ignorant destructive envy.” Lindsay, James. “The Many Faces of Marxism.” New Discourses Article, 4 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/many-faces-of-marxism/
25“In negative utopianism, the goal isn’t to articulate or envision some idealized society and work to make it; instead, it is to believe the ideal society is already ‘contained within’ the existing society but needs to be liberated from the dehumanizing forms that prevent its emergence.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Freiran.” Accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-freirean/
26"...rejects the idea that there’s any genuine correspondence between reality (which is ‘out there’) and truth or knowledge (which is socially constructed and culturally contingent).” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Reality.” Accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-reality/
27"...where going to see a breakdown of people, the mental sickness, inefficiency, resistance to work, refusal to perform, negligence, indifference, all this dysfunction would hit that centralized apparatus, cause a breakdown that could affect large segments of the whole and these may create exactly the forces necessary, the political climate necessary that could provide a mass basis for the new forms of organization…” Lindsay, James. “Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 48, 3 September 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/09/herbert-marcuse-catastrophe-solidarity/
28"Critical Social Justice is a kind of religious worldview that seeks to enforce Critical Social Justice and produce more activists for Critical Social Justice. These will be critical theorists and activists who claim to be about social justice when they are, in fact, about critical theories.” Lindsay, James. “Naming the Enemy: Critical Social Justice.” New Discourses Article, 28 February 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/02/naming-enemy-critical-social-justice/
29"He stresses particularly that Critical Race Theory is a belief system founded on the article of faith that racism that benefits white people is the fundamental organizing principle of society.” Lindsay, James. “Resisting Critical Race Theory Workshop: All Sessions.” New Discourses Videos, 25 March 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/03/resisting-critical-race-theory-workshop-all-sessions/
30The "objective is to use the pun on ‘critical’ that exists between ‘critical thinking’ and ‘Critical Theory’ to advance their agenda under a positive-sounding cover.” Lindsay, James. “Critical Thinking versus Critical Theory.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 11, 16 June 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/critical-thinking-versus-critical-theory/
31"Universal liberalism focuses on individuality and shared humanity and seeks to achieve a society in which every individual is equally able to access every right, freedom, and opportunity that our shared societies provide. Identity politics focuses explicitly on group identity and seeks political empowerment by promoting that group as a monolithic, marginalized entity distinct from and polarized against another group depicted as a monolithic privileged entity… the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave liberal feminism, and Gay Pride worked and inspired societies that valued universal human rights and equality of opportunity to support the speedy advance of social progress. They were not a form of identity politics and identity politics does not continue their work.” Pluckrose, Helen and Lindsay, James. “Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements.” New Discourses Article, 22 January 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/identity-politics-civil-rights-movements/
32"The way wound collecting works is pretty straightforward: an activist engages in some provocation, and when retaliation arrives, the ‘wounds’ are collected and advertised to gin up sympathy and support…” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic.” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 50, 25 June 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/onlysubs-wound-collecting-a-manipulative-woke-tactic/
33"The concept of intersectionality has since been developed to include many other identities considered marginalized including sexuality, gender identity, dis/ability, and weight and even more gradations within all those categories. It has thus become very complicated and difficult to address and sometimes looks like a form of competitive victimhood.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Intersectionality.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-intersectionality/
34"The goal is to replace actual learning with political literacy.” Lindsay, James. “Paulo Freire’s Schools.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 7, 19 May 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-schools-new-discourses-bullets-ep-7/
35"...the rebranding of Socialism (Social Equity) and Communism (Social Justice), meant to be achieved through Critical Theory.” Lindsay, James. “Equity and Justice.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 2, 14 April 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/equity-and-justice-new-discourses-bullets-ep-2/
36"In other words, sustainability is the new way of thinking about the world so that we can have liberation, which is to say Communism.” Lindsay, James. “Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 50, 6 October 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/sustainability-tyranny-21st-century/
37"The immediate goal of the Woke agenda is to turn everything into a Woke organ. That’s it. This is more alarming than it may sound, however. You may be Catholic or Protestant, a scientist or a doctor, a rockclimber or a musician, but if the Woke agenda proceeds far enough, you will in time find yourself being a Woke person professing Wokeness in Catholic or Protestant language, or through science and medicine, or in rockclimbing and music.” Lindsay, James. “The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 30, 19 April 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/the-woke-goal-everything-serves-theory/
38"The basic structure of Marxism repeats itself through every evolution of Marxist Theory and is always adhered to religiously and with the zealot’s fervor. In every case, a special form of property is at the center of the ‘Theory’, and the liberation of man depends on its abolition, by which is meant its ‘positive transcendence’.” Lindsay, James. “The Many Faces of Marxism.” New Discourses Article, 4 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/many-faces-of-marxism/
39 Democracy Now! “’A Massive Surveillance State’: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails.” 07 June 2013, https://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/7/a_massive_surveillance_state_glenn_greenwald
40The USA Freedom Act replaced the Patriot Act, but it did not substantially limit surveillance or expand privacy. Paul, Ron. “Like freedom? Then you won’t like the FREEDOM Act.” The Highland County Press, 23 March 2020, https://highlandcountypress.com/MobileContent/Opinions/Opinion/Article/Like-freedom-Then-you-won-t-like-the-FREEDOM-Act/4/22/56276
41Indiviglio, Daniel. ”How the Financial Crisis Made Big Banks Bigger”, The Atlantic, 30 December 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/12/how-the-financial-crisis-made-big-banks-bigger/68690/
42Merle, Renae. “A guide to the financial crisis — 10 years later.” The Washington Post, 10 September 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-guide-to-the-financial-crisis--10-years-later/2018/09/10/114b76ba-af10-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html
43DellaPelle, Anthony F. “Constitutional Implications of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Property Rights and Personal Liberties”, The American Bar Association, 27 July 2020, https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/real-estate-condemnation-trust/articles/2020/covid-19-constitutional-impact-property-rights-personal-liberties/
44"An Associated Press analysis found that bigger businesses disproportionately received Paycheck Protection Program companies first, thanks to pre-existing relationships with banks. Govindarajan and Srivastava say that larger companies' superior lobbying power historically helps them get subsidies and concessions during economic downturns. Small business advocates argue this has continued during the pandemic, with aid shaped by massive companies' desires.” Taylor, Kate. “In 2020, big businesses got bigger and small businesses died. The vicious cycle won't stop until we take action.” Business Insider, 3 January 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/in-2020-big-businesses-got-bigger-small-businesses-died-2020-12
45Selsky, Andrew. “AP Explains: How is the Defense Production Act relevant?” The Associated Press News, 22 January 2021, https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-2019-2020-coronavirus-pandemic-bbb0f14dd5032760657c563565ecfe06
46Bernett, H. Sterling. “Climate Model Problems Persist, Changes Reduce Accuracy Further.” The Heartland Institute, 10 February 2022, https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/climate-model-problems-persist-changes-reduce-accuracy-further
47Hickel, Jason. “The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth.” The Guardian, 3 July 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jul/03/paris-climate-deal-wont-work-our-future-depends-degrowth
48North, Oliver and Goetsch, David. “How the Left Uses Fear to Control Your Life.” Townhall Media, 18 January 2022, https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorthanddavidgoetsch/2022/01/18/how-the-left-uses-fear-to-control-your-life-n2601961
49"It may intentionally make political use of ‘doubling’ (using two different meanings of a word at once) and rely heavily on technical jargon, but its manipulations of language are mostly out in the open and spelled out at tremendous length, at least for those who take the time to learn to read their material and actually read it.” Lindsay, James. “Language Matters: Why I’m Creating Translations from the Wokish” New Discourses Article, 2 March 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/03/language-matters-translations-wokish/
50"That is, to be inclusive is not to exclude anybody. Inclusion, in a Critical Social Justice sense, refers to something subtly different that extends that idea in a particular way. It means to create a welcoming environment specifically for groups considered marginalized, and this entails the exclusion of anything that could feel unwelcoming to any identity groups (see also, safe space).” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Inclusion.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-inclusion/
51"...destabilize meaning and accept deconstruction so that they, the enlightened deconstructionists, can tell people what is right and wrong to think in any given circumstance.” Lindsay, James. “2+2 Never Equals 5.” New Discourses Article, 3 August 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/08/2-plus-2-never-equals-5/
52"In that strategy, named after a kind of castle, a highly defensible ‘motte’ position, like ‘we just want to treat people more fairly,’ is maintained while also pushing a more radical ‘bailey’ position, like ‘we need to radically remake our school systems so that no one can fail.’ Activists advance the bailey and, when pressed on it, retreat to the motte until scrutiny and pressure go away, at which point they return to the bailey.” Lindsay, James. “Stealing the Motte: Critical Social Justice and the Principle of Charity.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 6, 7 May 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/05/stealing-motte-critical-social-justice-principle-charity/
53“Marcuse is claiming to be against totalitarianism and fascism while he lays out one of the most totalitarian and fascist programs ever.” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: What the Iron Law of Woke Projection Tells Us About Marxists.” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 83, 22 February 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/02/onlysubs-what-iron-law-woke-projection-tells-about-marxists/
54"Problematics are ways in which the phenomenon, entity, person, circumstance, object, etc., under examination falls short of the moral agenda that necessarily lies at the heart of the critical theory examining it (by definition of a critical theory, which must be normative against what it sees as ‘oppression’). Of particular interest are ways in which those things might marginalize, exclude, minoritize, harm, cause oppression, or maintain or legitimate dominance and injustice through the machinations of systemic power.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Problematize.” Article access 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematize/
55"...calling everything you want to control racist until you control it. So this is a form of bullying, and it is exactly what this is, but it’s also Maoism, and people just don’t recognize it. This is the recreation of Mao’s black identity categories versus red identity categories. Somebody says something you don’t like, it used to be you are bourgeois, you have bourgeois values, you’re rightist, you’re counter revolutionary, somehow tied in with the dirty capitalists. And for Mao, it had these black categories like rich farmer, landlord, et cetera, counter revolutionary, bad influence, which that’s pretty open ended.” Jekielek, Jan. “PART 1: James Lindsay—The Roots of the New Race-Based Marxism Gripping the West.” American Thought Leaders, 17 February 2022, https://www.theepochtimes.com/james-lindsay-the-roots-of-the-new-race-based-marxism-gripping-the-west-part-1_4285075.html
56"...it’s a highly theoretical approach to complaining in a very specific way, typically in an underinformed or uninformed fashion, without any intention or capacity to make or build anything novel…” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Theory.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-theory/
57"Rather than questioning ways that Theory itself makes unexamined assumptions and carries its own biases (and metanarrative) and gains and establishes hegemonic power that it then abuses—as a critical theory should—Theory only examines (“critically”) the ways its attempted solutions aren’t able to unmake the existing systems of power or inadvertently uphold them. That is, it doesn’t question its own fundamental assumptions.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Theory.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-theory/
58“...any social construction that isn’t deconstructed maintains the possibility for oppressive systems of power. As a result, the operating system of Leftism over the last two hundred years always engenders a slippery slope.” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 48, 21 June 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/onlysubs-the-woke-slope-is-always-slippery/
59Peter Boghossian conducted an experiment on the street and offended people with his sign. One person suggested adding a question mark, but even if that had been agreed to it would not have been good enough. See Boghossian, Peter. “Did I Harm Portland State University Students By Asking This Question?” Beyond Woke with Peter Boghossian, 13 May 2022, https://boghossian.substack.com/p/did-i-harm-portland-state-university
60"As indicated, methodological rigor has essentially nothing to do with the worth of a ‘way of knowing’ (epistemology) in the Theory of Critical Social Justice. In fact, rigor is often construed as a form of white, Western male dominance in knowledge systems...what is relevant is how this claim to marginalization and exclusion can be used as an epistemological cudgel to advance the politics (and often careers) of the radical activists and scholars claiming that we need to forward ‘other ways of knowing’.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Ways of Knowing.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-ways-of-knowing/
61"...lived experience is a superior kind of evidence.” Lindsay, James. “’Lived Experience,’ Explained” New Discourses Bullets, 6 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/lived-experience-explained/
62"...all imbalances of representation in desirable areas of work are held to be caused by these perceived power dynamics. Equity is the intended remedy to this problem, and it is made applicable only (and especially) to positions of status and influence. For example, there is no equity program that attempts to increase the number of female sanitation workers, though there are equity programs that seek to increase the number of female doctors and politicians, and these endure even in high-status positions that employ more women than men.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Equity.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-equity/
63Lupkin, Sydney. “A Look At How The Revolving Door Spins From FDA To Industry.” National Public Radio, 28 September 2016, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/28/495694559/a-look-at-how-the-revolving-door-spins-from-fda-to-industry
64Graham, David A. “Ben Bernanke Isn't the Problem, the System Is the Problem” The Atlantic, 16 April 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/ben-bernanke-isnt-the-problem-the-system-is-the-problem/390669/
65Andrews, Luke. “Revealed: PR firm that represents Pfizer and Moderna also sits on CDC vaccine division - sparking major conflict of interest concerns.” The Daily Mail, 12 October 2022, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11303017/PR-firm-represents-Pfizer-Moderna-sits-CDC-vaccine-advisory-committee.html
66Ornstein, Charles. “From Twitter To Treatment Guidelines, Industry Influence Permeates Medicine.” National Public Radio, 17 January 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/510226214/from-twitter-to-treatment-guidelines-industry-influence-permeates-medicine
67Loyola, Mario. “Dictatorship, American Style.” The National Review, 11 February 2016, https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/02/administrative-state-progressive-politics-executive-congress/
68Strauss, Steven. “Why Let a Bank Write U.S. Financial Reform Legislation?” HuffPost, 16 June 2023, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-let-a-bank-write-us-f_b_3450590
69Ahlman, Austin. “House Democratic Leadership Designed Stock Trade Ban To Fail, Negotiators Say.” The Intercept, 30 September 2022, https://theintercept.com/2022/09/30/house-stocks-trade-ban-fail/
70Cain, Sian. “Printing money: 10 of the richest book deals of all time.” The Guardian, 1 March 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/01/richest-book-deals-of-all-time-hillary-clinton-james-patterson
71Stewart, Emily. “The debate over Janet Yellen’s speaking fees, explained.” Vox, 4 January 2021, https://www.vox.com/22213886/janet-yellen-speaking-fee-financial-disclosure
72Lutz, Ashley. “These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America.” Business Insider, 14 June 2012, https://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
73Sullivan, Margaret. “What’s a journalist supposed to be now – an activist? A Stenographer? You’re asking the wrong question.” The Washington Post, 7 June 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/whats-a-journalist-supposed-to-be-now--an-activist-a-stenographer-youre-asking-the-wrong-question/2020/06/06/60fdfb86-a73b-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html
74Ceci, Stephen J. and Williams, Wendy. “The Psychology of Fact-Checking” Scientific American, 25 October 2020, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-psychology-of-fact-checking1/
75Baris, Richard. “Is Polling Reliable Anymore?” People's Pundit Daily, 25 March 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMAY3LvuEJU
76Carlson, Jeff and Mahncke, Hans. “How Journalists Helped Promote the Steele Dossier” Truth Over News, 27 July 2021, https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-journalists-helped-promote-the-steele-dossier-truth-over-news_3920901.html
77Kennedy, Dan. “A Media Scholar Explains Why News For The Liberal Elite Is Hurting Us All” GBH News, 10 August 2021, https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021/08/10/a-media-scholar-explains-why-news-for-the-liberal-elite-is-hurting-us-all
78Barrabi, Thomas. “‘Anti-woke’ investor tells Apple, Disney to keep politics out of business.” The New York Post, 20 September 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/anti-woke-investor-tells-apple-disney-to-keep-politics-out-of-business/
79Adinolfi, Joseph. “Companies should ‘Leave politics to the politicians’: Ramaswamy slams ESG investing.” Market Watch, 16 September 2022, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/companies-should-leave-politics-to-the-politicians-ramaswamy-slams-esg-investing-11663877080
80Khabbaz, Ramsey. “Sports and Social Justice.” Harvard Business Review Magazine, January-February 2021, https://hbr.org/2021/01/sports-and-social-justice
81KGW8 News. "As Netflix Loses Subscribers, Elon Musk Blames 'Woke Mind Virus' for Making Service 'Unwatchable'.” 20 April 2022, https://www.kgw.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/daily-blast-live/as-netflix-loses-subscribers-elon-musk-blames-woke-mind-virus-for-making-service-unwatchable/508-f36eb994-6581-4574-ad77-711a95854da8
82Mondeaux, Cami. “Tulsi Gabbard leaves Democratic Party, denounces ‘control of an elitist cabal of warmongers’” The Washington Examiner, 11 October 2022, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-denounces-control-of-an-elitist-cabal-of-warmongers
83Pazzanese, Christina. “Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds.” The Harvard Gazette, 16 March 2021, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/democrats-and-republicans-live-in-partisan-bubbles-study-finds/
84The Lincoln Project is a group of former or current Republicans committed to the elite agenda and suppressing opposition to the elite within the Republican party. See Galen, Reed. “The fight against Trumpism is only beginning.” The Washington Post, 16 December 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/16/reed-galen-trumpism-lincoln-project/
85"Mao created ten different identity categories. He called five of them black, that was for bad for fascist, and he called five of them red, and that was for good or communist…” Lindsay, James. “Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, & Maoist Education” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 4, 28 April 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/critical-race-theory-queer-theory-maoist-education-new-discourses-bullets-ep-4/
86"It isn’t so easy as making the money follow the child or the backpack however. School choice legislation has to be smart, and it has some challenges in need of clever solutions before we blunder ahead into a trap the Woke Marxists are setting for us.” Lindsay, James. “The School Choice Trap.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 3, 20 April 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/the-school-choice-trap-new-discourses-bullets-ep-3/
87"Being relentlessly on offense, pushing forward even when they’re losing, is a Woke Marxist tactic that needs light shined on it.” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: The Relentless Woke Offensive.” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 87, 31 March 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/03/onlysubs-the-relentless-woke-offensive/
88"Take an existing Critical Theory of something, substitute the domain-specific jargon of some other thing, and then publish. You’re a genius revolutionizing (pun intended) your field!” Lindsay, James. “How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 45, 13 August 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/08/how-to-make-a-critical-theory-out-of-anything/
89Francesca, Gino. “The Rise of Behavioral Economics and Its Influence on Organizations” Harvard Business Review, 10 October 2017, https://hbr.org/2017/10/the-rise-of-behavioral-economics-and-its-influence-on-organizations
90Montenegro, Lisa. “Automated Filters Gone Wrong: The Small-Business Social Media Conundrum.” Forbes, 16 March 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2021/03/16/automated-filters-gone-wrong-the-small-business-social-media-conundrum
91Levin, Rambo. “Facebook At Schools: How Professional Teachers Should Use Facebook.” eLearning Industry, 24 September 2015, https://elearningindustry.com/facebook-at-schools-professional-teachers-use-facebook
92"This leads to mass outrage and demands for a boycott of the individual’s work, their firing from their job or work opportunities, or the retraction of invitations to events (or an outright cancellation of their event).” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Cancel Culture.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-cancel-culture/
93Lindsay, James. “21st Century Re-Education, The Digital Gulag.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 15, 4 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/21st-century-re-education-digital-gulag/
94"...as an organization drag queen story hour might be incentivized to recite lines about alignment with curriculum standards and social emotional learning...in order to be legible within public education and philanthropic institutions. Drag itself does not ultimately take these utilitarian aims too seriously, but it is quite good at looking the part when necessary.” Lindsay, James. “Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 82, 27 June 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groomer-schools-4-drag-queen-story-hour/
95“Critical analyses often have this purpose at their core. Their objective is, more than anything, to generate polarizing debate around themselves, which increases their potency. The strategy is simple. A critical counterstory such as we have in the 1619 Project is forwarded with the express purpose of generating debate around its validity and the critiques it raises. The next step is to characterize that debate in terms of the relevant power dynamics addressed by the discrepancies between the narratives of the counterstory and the story it seeks to replace. This process unfolds along the underlying Critical Theory ethos of identifying, then disrupting and dismantling, anything it can cast into a dichotomy of oppressor versus oppressed.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “1619 Project.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-1619-project/
96"The most infamous Neo-Communist figure of the early 21st century will be Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, who has figured out how to combine these approaches into a top-down, bottom-up, inside-out push. His primary tools: ESG and SEL.” Lindsay, James. “Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 12, 24 June 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/leninism-maoism-stakeholder-capitalism/
97“The large investment firms most notably involved in the ESG scoring system include BlackRock and Vanguard along with Goldman Sachs, State Street, JP Morgan Chase, and Fidelity. Governments, including the United States through its SEC rules, are joining in on the ESG program now as well, and this may be partly or largely due to the influence these companies have but also the influence wielded by large NGOs like the United Nations and World Economic Forum. There are strong reasons to believe these organizations, public, private, and NGO, are colluding under conspiracy to mandate ESG policy upon corporations of every size via different mechanisms.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “ESG.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-esg/
98“Transformative SEL is wholly (neo)-Marxist. Its primary agenda is, in fact, to use the five competency areas to raise and foster a critical consciousness through social and emotional education. This fact is unsurprising to all who understand that ‘transformative’ is a term employed by all of the Dialectical Left, most notably including Marxists, to describe their goal of making the world and man into something suitable for Communism...Social-Emotional Learning involves large-scale, frequent surveying of the students about social and emotional issues related to the five areas of competencies. These surveys are supposed to provide a feedback loop, based loosely on the Freirean dialogical model of education, whereby facilitators can learn what social and emotional lessons are most needed and appropriate, and by whom, in any given classroom. These surveys, however, especially when conducted digitally, amount to large-scale data harvesting of children in schools.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “SEL.” Article accessed 25 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-sel/
99Menon, Shruti and Sirilal, Ranga. “Why is there a food emergency in Sri Lanka?” BBC News, 20 September 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-58485674
100"...the basic terminology describing and informing these training programs cannot be trusted to mean what it seems to on its face.” Lindsay, James. “Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 11, 25 September 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/09/understanding-diversity-equity-inclusion/
101"... focuses, in reality, almost entirely on physical and cultural differences, which it evaluates according to the Critical Social Justice conceptions of privilege and marginalization (see also, positionality).” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Diversity.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-diversity/
102"...inclusion is an expansive concept that could apply to silencing certain ideas like conservatism, meritocracy, or support for freedom of speech, usually in the name of safety and preventing the ‘trauma’ or ‘violence’ that such ideas could inflict upon progressives who see them as ideologies that perpetuate systemic harm.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Inclusion.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-inclusion/
103"...equity is something like a kind of ‘social communism,’ if we will—the intentional redistribution of shares, but not necessarily along lines of existing economic disparity but in order to adjust for and correct current and historical injustices, both as exist in reality and as have been drawn out by the various critical theories.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Equity.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-equity/
104"Diversity and Inclusion are tools used to install political officers and to censor and remove dissidents, respectively. In other words, the Woke Marxist DEI industry is a racket designed to install commissars for its ideology.” Lindsay, James. “DEI Explained.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 1, 4 April 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/dei-explained-new-discourses-bullets-ep-1/
105Greenwald, Glen and MacAskil, Ewen. “NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others.” The Guardian, 7 June 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
106Trotta, Daniel. “U.S. appeals court rejects big tech's right regulate online speech.” Reuters, 17 September 2022, https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-rules-against-big-techs-ability-regulate-online-speech-2022-09-16/
107Press Release. “E&C Republican Leaders Demand White House Share their Big Tech Censorship Correspondences.” Energy and Commerce Republicans, 13 September 2022, https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/press-release/ec-republican-leaders-demand-white-house-share-their-big-tech-censorship-correspondences/
108Ng, Irene. “Regulation and the Walled Gardens of Big Tech: Handle with Care.” Medium, 13 October 2020, https://medium.com/@irene.cl.ng/regulation-and-the-walled-gardens-of-big-tech-handle-with-care-92e24f66f663
109Basham, Megan. “How The Federal Government Used Evangelical Leaders To Spread Covid Propaganda To Churches.” The Daily Wire, Accessed on 26 October 2022, https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches
110“But just like every other pillar of our nation, faith is being deconstructed and reconstructed by the same Marxian actors that have envisioned the enviro-communo-fascist state.” O’Fallon, Michael. “The Purposed Deconstruction of Religion.” Sovereign Nations, 14 September 2022, https://sovereignnations.com/2022/09/14/purposed-deconstruction-religion-michael-ofallon/
111"Resolution 9, bringing into the Convention both Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality ‘as an analytical tool subordinate to Scripture.’” Lindsay, James. “Free OnlySubs: The Southern Baptist Convention & The Subordination of Scripture.” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 80, 28 January 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/01/onlysubs-southern-baptist-convention-subordination-scripture/
112"Rick Warren spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2008 and told them explicitly they would never accomplish their goals without getting faith as the third leg of the stool.” Lindsay, James. “Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 91, 22 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/paulo-freire-and-the-marxist-transformation-of-the-church/
113"Yet we need to think of ourselves more and more as a single family dwelling in a common home...the right to private property can only be considered a secondary natural right, derived from the principle of the universal destination of created goods.” Polumbo, Brad. “The Pope Just Called Private Property a ‘Secondary Right.’ He Couldn't Be More Wrong.” FEE Stories, 5 October 2020, https://fee.org/articles/the-pope-just-called-private-property-a-secondary-right-he-couldnt-be-more-wrong/
114"They (WEF) see an opportunity to reshape values in particular because that’s what faith allows them to do as Klaus Schwab said.” Lindsay, James. “Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 91, 22 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/paulo-freire-and-the-marxist-transformation-of-the-church/
115Baker, Monya. “1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility.” Nature, 25 May 2016, https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
116"Specifically, over the course of a year we wrote twenty academic papers and submitted them to significant peer-reviewed academic journals in these fields with the hopes of getting them published. Every paper combined an effort to better understand the field itself with an attempt to get absurdities and morally fashionable political ideas published as legitimate academic research.” Lindsay, James and Pluckrose, Helen and Boghossian, Peter. “The Grievance Studies Project.” New Discourses, Accessed on 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/grievance-studies-project/
117“1 paper (the one about rape culture in dog parks) gained special recognition for excellence from its journal, Gender, Place, and Culture, a highly ranked journal that leads the field of feminist geography.” Lindsay, James and Pluckrose, Helen and Boghossian, Peter. “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship.” Areo Magazine, 10 February 2018, https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
118Every-Palmer, Sussana and Howick, Jeremy. “How evidence-based medicine is failing due to biased trials and selective publication.” Wiley Online Library, 12 May 2014, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jep.12147
119Shermer, Michael. “Scientific American Goes Woke.” Skeptic by Michael Shermer Substack, 17 November 2021, https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-goes-woke
120Rufo, Christopher. “Suppression Campaign.” City Journal, 12 October 2022, https://www.city-journal.org/ama-seeks-to-silence-critics-of-radical-gender-medicine
121"...public policy itself could become captive the scientific-technological elite…” Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Farewell Address.” National Archives, 17 January 1961, https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address
122Hunter, Phillip. “Is political correctness damaging science?” EMBO Report, May 2005, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299305/
123"He was the agriculturalist of the Soviet Union, first under Stalin, and his ideological biology (Lysenkoism) led directly to the deaths of tens of millions, first in the Soviet Union and then in Maoist China. Lysenkoism implied famine and mass death, and disputing Lysenkoism, despite its catastrophe, meant a trip to the gulag or a bullet in your head.” Lindsay, James. “The Dawn of Medical Lysenkoism.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 28, 9 April 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/dawn-medical-lysenkoism/
124"The report makes a strong case for the needs of higher education institutions in general to open up to multiple and plural views of the world as well as very diverse ways of knowing that can add value to strict science based knowledge.” Lindsay, James. “The Strange Death of the University, Part 2: A New Sensibility.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 96, 10 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/strange-death-university-part-2-new-sensibility/
125Abramson, John. “Big Pharma Is Hijacking the Information Doctors Need Most.” Time Magazine, 28 April 2022, https://time.com/6171999/big-pharma-clinical-data-doctors/
126Chapin, Christy Ford. "Why insurance companies control your medical care.” The Conversation, 4 October 2016, https://theconversation.com/why-insurance-companies-control-your-medical-care-62540
127Rubin, Rita. “When Physicians Spread Unscientific Information About COVID-19.” JAMA, 16 February 2022, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2789369
128Blaylock, Russel. “COVID UPDATE: What is the truth?” Surgical Neurology International, 22 April 2022, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
129"Paulo Freire enabled the theft of education from all potential learners for the purposes of Marxism…” Lindsay, James. “Paulo Freire and the Critical Theft of Education” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 88, 9 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/paulo-freire-and-the-critical-theft-of-education/
130"To have a critical consciousness is to be aware of—and generally unhappy about—your positionality in society, i.e., your relationship to systemic and institutional power as determined by Theory and based mostly on facts concerning what demographic groups you are a part of.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “Critical Consciousness.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-consciousness/
131“What the bourgeois class considers to be educated and thus reproducing their society that benefits them.” Lindsay, James. “Paulo Freire’s Schools” NewDiscourses Bullets, Episode 7, 19 May 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-schools-new-discourses-bullets-ep-7/
132"…social and emotional learning therefore center on the production of novel forms of psychodata about students as statistical insights for policy influence and intervention. They’re data mining your kids to build the world of the future.” Lindsay, James. “The Dark Truth About Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 92, 29 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/the-dark-truth-about-social-emotional-learning-sel/
133"This is a long-running project rooted in Marxist theory that’s being used specifically to destabilize the relationship between parents and children, childhood and adulthood, very intentionally so that you can make (children) both sexually (unfortunately) but also politically groomable…” Lindsay, James. “Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education.” New Discourses Podcast, Episode 54, 19 November 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/11/groomer-schools-1-long-cultural-marxist-history-sex-education/
134“In other words, to know what a woman is, you have to ask a qualified expert. It doesn’t matter what the definition is because the whole thing is a power grab making use of Queer Theory (better called Queer Marxism) to steal power from deliberately constructed confusion.” Lindsay, James. “What is a Woman?” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 18, 26 August 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/what-is-a-woman/
135“It is imperative to reassert, however, that the goal of the 1619 Project is not, and never was, to improve our historical understanding. Rather, its goal was always to perpetrate a critical historiography that muddles and besmirches it (see also, problematize). This it seeks to achieve by calling into doubt the American metanarrative and establishing alongside it, if not in place of it, the critical race Theoretical metanarrative instead: that the United States is indelibly racist and has been since its origins. This includes undermining trust in the liberal ideas of individualism and human universality, wherein people are judged by the contents of their character and recognized for their common humanity, and forwarding identity-group thinking that is more useful for (radical) identity politics.” New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia. “1619 Project.” Accessed 26 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-1619-project/
136Mistich, Dave. "Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ruled liable in Sandy Hook defamation case.” National Public Radio, 15 November 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055864452/alex-jones-found-liable-for-defamation-in-sandy-hook-hoax-case
137Poff, Jeremaiah. “New York judge says Jewish university isn't religious and must approve LGBT club.” The Washington Examiner, 15 June 2022, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/new-york-judge-jewish-university-religious
138Dylon, Michael. “Iowa judge rules against parents’ request to block school district’s new transgender policy.” The Heartlander, 21 September 2022, https://heartlandernews.com/2022/09/21/iowa-judge-rules-against-parents-request-to-block-school-districts-new-transgender-policy/
139Nightingale, Hannah. “Indiana parents lose custody after court rules not 'affirming' child's gender identity is 'abuse'.” The Post Millennial, 24 October 2022, https://thepostmillennial.com/indiana-parents-lose-custody-after-court-rules-not-affirming-childs-gender-identity-is-abuse
140Paxton, Ken. “AG Paxton Sues Biden Administration for Silencing Parents, Labeling Them ‘Terrorists’.” Attorney General of Texas, 4 March 2022, https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-sues-biden-administration-silencing-parents-labeling-them-terrorists
141McGinnis, John O. “Why the Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing for Woke Law Schools.” The Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/anticompetitive-woke-law-schools-aba-identity-politics-affirmative-action-11626364370
142"...into Sustainable Capitalism and pushing onward into ‘global citizenship’ and a basis for a global administrative state.” Lindsay, James. “The Dialectic of Global Citizenship.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 20, 22 September 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/09/dialectic-global-citizenship/
143"Data becomes this resource that they mine out of people...What do people need to live so they can own nothing and be happy?” Lindsay, James. “Data is the New Oil.” New Discourses Bullets, Episode 23, 13 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/data-is-the-new-oil/
144"You have to figure out what you can do, what you have to offer, what you’re good at...Everybody has something to offer, and you have to ask yourself what you can do…” Lindsay, James. “OnlySubs: James, What Can I Do?” New Discourses OnlySubs, Episode 97, 15 June 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/onlysubs-james-what-can-i-do/