My plan today was to take a break from writing and to just think and reflect for a while. I have a tendency to shoot from the hip and react a bit emotionally - which makes for good snark, but lighter on the insight and precision.
However . . .
I wanted to share this with you because I think it might be one of the most important speeches of the 21st century so far.
Overstating things?
Have a listen (30 mins) and let me know what you think.
*The title might be a bit misleading because the speech explains woke within the context of Marxism - so it’s really an explanation of woke (and the strategy) rather than an analysis of ‘traditional’ Marxism per se. As Lindsay so beautifully and eloquently explains, woke IS Marxism, evolved to take on western culture.
Coming from the humanities (aka the inanities) I'm so inured to all the pomo-stuff, french/US "philosophy", italian mid-century communism-by-way-of-US-universities, and so on I have trouble understanding people who doesn't understand it.
Which still are 90%+ of those not involved in one way or another.
To quote Hammerstein: Spread the Word!
The white van man and his mates needs to understand what's happening and that it's a sight more important than who's shagging who among the nobs or if that goal was offside or not.
"Mao's and Men" -- LOL. 😉🙂 Though Steinbeck's book of that name may have more relevance than you intended.
Haven't watched all of Lindsay's video, but, offhand, I kinda think he's barking up the wrong tree, a bit too quick to find a "Commie" under every bed.
Ran across a quote of Solzhenitsyn the other day that seems relevant:
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free then they are not equal. But if they're equal then they're not free."
High sounding words that may have some merit. But seems they often boil down into, "devil take the hindmost", into "every man for himself".
Seems rather unwise at best, a repudiation of the more or less tenable argument that every man is his brother's keeper. As Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have put it on the eve of the American Revolution, "We hang together or we hang alone."