Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
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Rules for General Chat
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I was thinking about how if there was someone that figured it all out, there is a chance we wouldn't believe them, because it's not what we want to believe, maybe it makes the leftists more far gone or evil than we wish they were, when deep down we want to save them.
For example I'd been half in on James Lindsay's New Discourses stuff, a part of me wonders if he's trying to make money off us (ie on the website there's a nice book displayed for you to buy) and I'm skeptical that he used to be a leftist, but what if he's actually right about everything, and I don't want to believe what he's saying about the leftists being legit communists. I don't know. I thought as an experiment I might try listening to his ND work for the next month and take it in at full face value.
Just took a cursory look at James Lindsay, and my feeling is that he is not actually a guy who has woken up. He is only awake about social justice and woke stuff, because he had been working on that area even as far back as 2017. He is what I call a "semi awake" person who wakes up specifically to areas that affects them directly.
However, if you only believe the society is wrong about one aspect of this matrix, but refuse to believe the same applies to all other aspects, you are just a hypocrite.
If he does not udnerstand the agenda of communism, then its possible he has illusions about the ideals of communism.
What facts has he offered you to make you think this? what critical analysis has he done that has challenged your own beliefs?
Why would you buy a book about issues you already know better than the author? His material seems to be aimed at lefties - esp those with doubts about wokeness. I cant see anything of novel value that he presents to Anons.
If you have so much free time that you are willing to waste it on this when there are hundreds of legit important stuff we can be researching into.