By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms. Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it a…
anti-intellectualism and authoritarianism are deeply linked. One saw this during Covid, right? There was zero discussion of any dissent from the official line around any of these measures, lockdowns, the use of experimental vaccines. Mandates firing people who didn’t want to take these vaccines. There was no discussion on the left about this.
It’s the guidance counselors and the principles that are pushing the trans club
don’t be surprised if there’s a backlash when that becomes the official ideology, and everyone is supposed to just like accept the preconceived arguments of that lobby
christian goes on about how his genX understands leftism and how he’s embarrassed by millennials/genZ leftism, how they’ve fallen into a woke trap and wear masks and get vaccines and call themselves marxists
Gen X had such a little understanding of any “ism” that they had a big sit-in protest campaign during the 2008 collapse without even any coherent demands let alone a political program, and it dissolved into a camping trip that produced zero results for anything and zero lessons even, because they didn’t actually try anything specific to learn from — it amounted to nothing from the nothing that they understood and then they all went home to continue brooding and moping and making that their whole personality like before. Which is why these people make money and livings off of complaining and criticizing everything and nay-saying everything without ever having (or being expected to have) a real positive construction or way forward or alternative solution to everything they tear down. They’re definitional wreckers because that’s all they do is wreck, wreck with floral language to sell books so they can wreck more and turn the classic GenX “individualist rebellion of moping” into another reinforcer of the status quo; one that is more obstructive of people trying to do real actual positive advocacy of literally anything than even the reactionaries who at least pose a real material antithesis.
They’re professional energy vampires and Gen X “leftism” is represented very well in them
would not be surprising, christian encourages leftists to go beyond stale boring theory and get some interesting and exciting ideas from the far right
‘this admitted racist who wants to get rid of the civil rights act actually makes some good points’, ‘the woke student mob radicalised my dad and got him fired’
I think that’s where a lot of the left is at these days, that it is cutting itself off for more interesting ideas. And it’s one of the ways that the right has gotten a kind of cultural upward hand on the left by, perhaps cynically, but entertaining ideas. And people are, all people, I think, are intellectually hungry. They might not seem intellectually hungry, I’m not saying that everybody wants to read esoteric theory, no. But people have ideas about stuff. People have ideas about reality. I mean, the number of people in this country who are interested in things is enormous, right? And if the left is just offering a set of kind of, “just so” stories and prefabricated pat answers, it becomes intellectually boring and people will turn away. So that’s another problem with all this stuff that in shutting down and policing thought and policing speech and policing thought and turning away from the unclean authors and ideas, the left is painting itself into a corner.
‘leftists these days need to get some far-right intellectual stimulation from the cynically entertaining ideas of south park’
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christian goes on about how his genX understands leftism and how he’s embarrassed by millennials/genZ leftism, how they’ve fallen into a woke trap and wear masks and get vaccines and call themselves marxists
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Gen X had such a little understanding of any “ism” that they had a big sit-in protest campaign during the 2008 collapse without even any coherent demands let alone a political program, and it dissolved into a camping trip that produced zero results for anything and zero lessons even, because they didn’t actually try anything specific to learn from — it amounted to nothing from the nothing that they understood and then they all went home to continue brooding and moping and making that their whole personality like before. Which is why these people make money and livings off of complaining and criticizing everything and nay-saying everything without ever having (or being expected to have) a real positive construction or way forward or alternative solution to everything they tear down. They’re definitional wreckers because that’s all they do is wreck, wreck with floral language to sell books so they can wreck more and turn the classic GenX “individualist rebellion of moping” into another reinforcer of the status quo; one that is more obstructive of people trying to do real actual positive advocacy of literally anything than even the reactionaries who at least pose a real material antithesis.
They’re professional energy vampires and Gen X “leftism” is represented very well in them
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would not be surprising, christian encourages leftists to go beyond stale boring theory and get some interesting and exciting ideas from the far right
‘this admitted racist who wants to get rid of the civil rights act actually makes some good points’, ‘the woke student mob radicalised my dad and got him fired’
‘leftists these days need to get some far-right intellectual stimulation from the cynically entertaining ideas of south park’
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