The ideology driving the American Cultural Revolution has an authoritarian vision. They want to transform society from a liberal society with individual freedom to an illiberal society completely managed and controlled by the ruling class.
Critical consciousness is the core beliefs and values of the American Cultural Revolution. The ultimate good is sustainability and equity, also known as environmental justice and social justice. Equity means equal outcomes for idenity groups and lowering standards. Sustainabilty requires controling resources and human behavior. There is a moral obligation for you and everyone to engage in revolution to achieve sustainability and equity.
This is a totalizing ideology. Every policy, every decision, every transaction from all areas of society and from the largest organizations down to the smallest community is political and has an impact. It all must be controlled by the ruling class. This is not a live and let live ideology. Any opposition will be actively suppressed and destroyed and everyone must participate in the new society.
Episode References
Authoritarian Vision
An article on how students took a field trip to engage in political activism.
Ruiz-Grossman, Sarah. "Thousands Of Students Walk Out Nationwide To Protest Lawmakers' Inaction On Guns", Huffington Post, 26 May 2022, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/students-walk-out-protest-gun-control-uvalde_n_62900106e4b05cfc2697c036
Martin, Gemma. Choporis, Loui. White, Bali. "What are Gender Pronouns? Why Do They Matter?" National Institute of Health, 28 May 2020, https://www.edi.nih.gov/blog/communities/what-are-gender-pronouns-why-do-they-matter
Medical associations are adopting equity over patient care.
Press Release. "APA adopts racial equity action plan" American Psychological Association, 4 August 2022, https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/08/racial-equity-action-plan
"The global market for Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) estimated at US$9.4 Billion in the year 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of US$24.4 Billion by 2030..."
Market Research. "Global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Industry" Report Linker, Accessed March 2024, https://www.reportlinker.com/p06219616/Global-Diversity-and-Inclusion-D-I-Industry.html?utm_source=GNW
Staff Report. "Global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Market Report 2021: A Successful Company is One Which Implements DEI Not Only as a Moral Obligation but also as a Business Imperative - ResearchAndMarkets.com" Business Wire, 21 January 2022, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220121005307/en/Global-Diversity-and-Inclusion-DI-Market-Report-2021-A-Successful-Company-is-One-Which-Implements-DEI-Not-Only-as-a-Moral-Obligation-but-also-as-a-Business-Imperative---ResearchAndMarkets.com
"Many colleges and universities will not give due attention or support to DEI efforts until they are required by an accreditor, she says. Hathaway also believes that most academic DEI officers agree that these principles must be included in accreditation standards because they are inherent to providing a quality education and workplace."
Bohanon, Mariah. "DEI in Accreditation" Insight into Diversity, 16 March 2022, https://www.insightintodiversity.com/dei-in-accreditation/
Picchi, Aimee. "Harvard says it won't require SAT or ACT scores through 2026" CBS News, 17 December 2021, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-test-optional-sat-act-scores-college-admission/
Carter, Ray. "UNION ADVISES TEACHERS TO HIDE INFORMATION FROM PARENTS" Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, 16 March 2023, https://www.ocpathink.org/post/independent-journalism/union-advises-teachers-to-hide-information-from-parents
Parker, John. "Washington State Law Allows Gov. to Take Children from Parents for Gender Transition" Florida Jolt, 15 April 2023, https://floridajolt.com/washington-state-law-allows-gov-to-take-children-from-parents-for-gender-transition/
Kinnett, Tony. "Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory" Daily Signal, 17 April 2023, https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/17/indiana-school-officials-lie-to-parents-about-crt/
Sneed, Tierney. "Inside the effort to disbar attorneys who backed bogus election lawsuits" CNN, 10 March 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/ethics-complaints-attorney-misconduct-trump-election-reversal/index.html
West, Andrew. "Single Mother's Bank Account Frozen Over $50 Donation to Freedom Truckers" Flag and Cross, 22 February 2022, https://flagandcross.com/single-mothers-bank-account-frozen-over-50-donation-to-freedom-truckers/
Loft Jr., John R. "Canada Isn't Alone in Using Debanking As a Weapon Against Political Opponents" Townhall, 23 February 2022, https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2022/02/23/canada-isnt-alone-in-using-debanking-as-a-weapon-against-political-opponents-n2603647
Palumbo, Matt. "How George Soros funds ‘fact checkers’ to silence dissent" New York Post, 26 January 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/how-george-soros-funds-fact-checkers-to-silence-dissent/
Hall, Alexander. "Twitter Files journalist tells Rogan government turned anti-terror apparatus against the 'American people'" Fox News, 3 April 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-journalist-rogan-govt-turned-anti-terror-apparatus-against-american-people
Rogan, Joe. "#1963 – Michael Shellenberger" Joe Rogan Experience, 30 March 2023, https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1963-michael-shellenberger/
Staff. "Tampa Bay doctor says CVS Pharmacy refused to fill prescription for COVID-19 patient" WFLA NBC News, 17 July 2020, https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/tampa-bay-doctor-says-cvs-pharmacy-refused-to-fill-prescription-for-covid-19-patient/
Hiltzik, Michael. "Column: A warning to doctors — spreading COVID misinformation could cost you your license" Los Angelese Times, 16 August 2021, https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-16/doctors-coronavirus-misinformation-license
Ginsberg, Seth D. "5 Ways Insurance Companies Meddle in Your Health Care" US News and World Report, 13 July 2017, https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/2017-07-13/5-ways-insurance-companies-meddle-in-your-health-care
Widiyasari, Vira and Widjaja, Herman. "This new approach to credit scoring is accelerating financial inclusion in emerging economies" World Economic Forum, 20 January 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/this-new-approach-to-credit-scoring-is-accelerating-financial-inclusion/
"Research has demonstrated that biodata, personality characteristics and behaviours reasonably predict a person’s probability of engaging in risky financial decision making, supporting the application of this information within creditworthiness tests."
Staff. "Behavioural Credit Scoring" Psych Press, Accessed 8 March 2024, https://www.psychpress.com.au/talent-management-solutions/identify-talent/screening-talent/behavioural-credit-scoring/index.php
Edmond, Charlotte. "This credit card has a carbon-emission spending limit" World Economic Forum, 13 May 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/this-credit-card-has-a-carbon-emission-spending-limit/
Larsen, Martin Alfonsin. "15 minute city plans cause controversy" The Oxford Student, 25 January 2023, https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2023/01/25/15-minute-city-plans-cause-controversy/
Jekielek, Jan and Athrappully, Naveen. "15-Minute Cities Are ‘Complete Impoverishment and Enslavement of All the People’: EU Lawmaker" The Epoch Times, 5 May 2023, https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/15-minute-cities-are-complete-impoverishment-and-enslavement-of-all-the-people-5231593
Australian Associated Press. "WA police to use drones to enforce coronavirus restrictions" 9 News, 30 March 2020, https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-outbreak-wa-police-to-use-drones-to-enforce-restrictions/30387b30-f34d-40bd-84af-479cd10ff9fe
Pillai, Anu. "How virtual tourism can rebuild travel for a post-pandemic world" World Economic Forum, 21 May 2021, How virtual tourism can rebuild travel for a post-pandemic world
McDonald, Joe. "China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses" Associated Press, 22 February 2019, https://apnews.com/article/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8
Campbell, Charlie. "How China Is Using 'Social Credit Scores' to Reward and Punish Its Citizens" Time Magazine, Davos 2019, https://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502592/china-social-credit-score/
Parker, Ceri. "8 predictions for the world in 2030" World Economic Forum, 26 November 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20230428085432/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030
Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2015.
Schwab, Klaus. Fourth Industrial Revolution, 2013.
Schwab, Klaus. COVID-19: The Great Reset, 2020.
Schwab, Klaus and Vanham, Peter. Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet, 2021.
Schwab, Klaus. The Great Narrative, 2022.
"The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future."
"THE 17 GOALS" United Nations, Accessed 8 March 2024, https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Kendi, Ibram X. "Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment" Politico Magazine, 2019, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist, 2019.
Critical Consciousness
"Critical consciousness is, in short, having adopted a critical mindset, in the sense of critical theories. It is to have taken on a worldview that sees society in terms of systems of power, privilege, dominance, oppression, and marginalization, and that has taken up an intention to become an activist against these problematics."
Lindsay, James. "Critical Consciousness" New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia, 8 July 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-consciousness/
"Critical Consciousness 'which refers to marginalized or oppressed people’s critical reflection on oppressive social, economic, or political conditions, the motivation to address perceived injustice, and action taken to counter such injustice in a liberatory manner'"
Diemer, Matthew. "Critical consciousness: Current status and future directions" New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011, https://www.academia.edu/14335079/Critical_consciousness_Current_status_and_future_directions
Crenshaw, Kimberle. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 6 (Jul., 1991), pp. 1241-1299, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039
Zimmer, Kyle and Raja, Pavitra. "Here’s how organizations can put intersectionality to work" World Economic Forum, 21 October 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/here-s-how-organizations-put-intersectionality-to-work/
Saavedra, Ryan. "AOC, Other Far-Left Lawmakers On Chauvin Convicted On All Counts: ‘Not Justice,’ System ‘Not Working’" The Daily Wire, 21 April 2021, https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-other-far-left-lawmakers-on-chauvin-convicted-on-all-counts-not-justice-system-not-working
Lindsay, James. "'Lived Experience,' Explained" New Discourses Bullets Ep. 22, 6 October 2022, https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/lived-experience-explained/
Clip. "Acting Director of National Hurricane Center shuts down Don Lemon after linking Hurricane Ian to climate change" Fox News, 18 September 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/video/6312970000112
Bell, W. Alexander. "Motte-and-Bailey: The Academic Threat from ‘Lived Experience’" James G. Martin Center, 2 April 2021, https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/04/motte-and-bailey-the-academic-threat-from-lived-experience/
Duckworth, Sylvia. "Spin The Wheel of Power & Privilege [Marginalization & Intersectionality]" This Is How You Can, 11 November 2020, https://www.thisishowyoucan.com/post/__wheel_of_power_and_privilege
Lindsay, James. "Power (Systemic)" New Discourses Social Justice Encyclopedia, 5 February 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-power-systemic/
Sensoy, Ozlem. DiAngelo, Robin. Banks, James A. Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, 2017.
This book argues against climate alarmism.
Whitestone, Gregory. Inconvenient Facts, 2017.
This book explains the view that that he United States is inherently racist and must be abolished.
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning, 2018.
"Racism must be continually identified, analyzed and challenged; no one is ever done...
The question is not 'did racism take place'? but rather 'how did racism manifest in that situation?'...
All white people benefit from racism, regardless of intentions; intentions are irrelevant...
Antiracist Frame: Racism as Ever-Present"
DiAngelo, Robin. Anti-Racism Handout, 2016, https://robindiangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Anti-racism-handout-1-page-2016.pdf
This article shows violence from the left is acceptable.
Shephard, Todd. "Report: Central Bucks teacher stifled reports of student bullying to politically harm conservative board majority" Broad and Liberty, 21 April 2023, https://broadandliberty.com/2023/04/21/report-central-bucks-teacher-stifled-reports-of-student-bullying-to-politically-harm-conservative-board-majority/
Bader, Hans. "Oregon Abolishes Academic Standards in the Name of 'Equity' and Antiracism" Minding the Campus, 13 August 2021, https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2021/08/13/oregon-abolishes-academic-standards-in-the-name-of-equity-and-antiracism/
Randazzo, Sara. "To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes" The Wall Street Journal, 17 February 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-increase-equity-school-districts-eliminate-honors-classes-d5985dee
Weinstein, Bret. "Bret Weinstein Testifies to Congress on The Evergreen State College riots, Free Speech & Safe Spaces"You Tube, 8 June 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRIKJCKWla4
Totalizing
Struggle sessions in the American Cultural Revolution include coercion to publically support their ideology. You can't even try to stay out of it and remain silent.
Capatides, Christina. "White silence on social media: Why not saying anything is actually saying a lot" CBS News, 3 June 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-silence-on-social-media-why-not-saying-anything-is-actually-saying-a-lot/
"The black square allowed millions of people to engage with a politically charged issue without having to seem too political themselves."
Daley, Beth. "Blackout Tuesday: the black square is a symbol of online activism for non-activists" The Conversation, 4 June 2020, https://theconversation.com/blackout-tuesday-the-black-square-is-a-symbol-of-online-activism-for-non-activists-139982
The UN is pushing for censorship.
Hanafin, Niamh. "Strategic Guidance: Information Integrity: Forging a pathway to Truth, Resilience and Trust" United Nations Development Programme, 16 February 2022, https://www.undp.org/policy-centre/oslo/publications/strategic-guidance-information-integrity-forging-pathway-truth-resilience-and-trust
The current pope supports the ideology of the American Cultural Revolution for the church in the form of liberation theology which has marxist roots. "A progressive theological current that emphasizes the Catholic church's closeness to the poor and the marginalized but was subject to decades of hostility and censure is now finding increasing favor in the Vatican under Pope Francis....During the pontificate of the fiercely anti-communist John Paul II, some of liberation theology's leading exponents, such as Jon Sobrino and Leonardo Boff, were accused of espousing Marxist ideas and were censured by the Vatican."
Staff. "Liberation theology finds new welcome in Pope Francis' Vatican" National Catholic Reporter, 10 September 2013, https://www.ncronline.org/news/theology/liberation-theology-finds-new-welcome-pope-francis-vatican
The Southern Baptist Convention adopts critical race theory.
Annual Meeting Resolution. "On Critical Race Theory And Intersectionality" Southern Baptist Convention, 1 June 2019, https://www.sbc.net/resource-library/resolutions/on-critical-race-theory-and-intersectionality/
Chuck Todd shames people who didn't take the covid "vaccine".
Todd, Chuck. "‘Shame on you:’ Chuck Todd calls out misinformation surrounding vaccines as U.S. records new Covid cases" MSNBC, 1 July 2021, https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/-shame-on-you-chuck-todd-calls-out-misinformation-surrounding-vaccines-as-u-s-records-new-covid-cases-115844677910
Science must follow the ideology of the American Cultural Revolution.
Sullivan, Peter. "Fauci: Attacks on me are really also ‘attacks on science’" The Hill, 9 June 2021, https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/557602-fauci-attacks-on-me-are-really-also-attacks-on-science/
Science must follow the ideology of the American Cultural Revolution through ESG and DEI.
Masko, John. "BlackRock’s tyrannical ESG agenda: Is Larry Fink a threat to democracy?" Unheard, 2 March 2023, https://unherd.com/2023/03/blackrocks-tyrannical-esg-agenda/
DEI is at every fortune 100 company.
Rufo, Christopher F. "The DEI Regime" The City Journal, 13 July 2022, https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-dei-regime
"There is no such thing as a non-racist or race neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups."
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist, 2019.
"That is, the Woke agenda is to flatten all the variety out of life and make every aspect of life do one thing and one thing only: serve Theory. This means that Wokeness is a totalizing ideology and will lead to totalitarian outcomes..."
Lindsay, James. "The Woke Goal: Everything Serves Theory" New Discourses, 19 April 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/the-woke-goal-everything-serves-theory/
"The trend toward puritan-style pietism, authoritarianism, and eventually totalitarianism in application of this paramorality is a virtual certainty..."
Lindsay, James. "Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism" New Discourses, 25 December 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism/
There is a pattern used to apply critical consciousness to anything.
Lindsay, James. "How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything" New Discourses, 13 August 2021, https://newdiscourses.com/2021/08/how-to-make-a-critical-theory-out-of-anything/