STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, highly recommends listening to this podcast. James Lindsay describes George Soros’s frame of mind and scheme to change the world—a long lecture yet packed with significant analysis and synthesis that relates to our concerns about radicalism. There is a lot to be harvested from this presentation to advance our concerns and arguments.
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 138
George Soros has a theory of change, and his goal is to make and move history. That theory of change is easy to understand if we take the time. It is also explicitly dialectical and alchemical.
For Soros, society moves “historically” during times of chaos when people are searching for guideposts for what the future will bring, and it proceeds through change by “fertile fallacies,” which are the seeds of what has elsewhere been called mass-formation psychosis. That is, feedback loops based on consequential errors change history.
If you want to change history, then, it’s simple. First, plunge society into chaos (say, by funding lots of things that destabilize communities). In the meantime, build “reflexive” potential so that the people driven into chaos work in ways favorable to your agendas.
Then, when chaos ignites, place strategic “guideposts” that lead the desperate people to make exactly the kinds of mistakes that take them where you want them to go.
In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes on George Soros and his dialectical alchemy of “reflexivity” through Soros’s own words as printed in The Alchemy of Finance and elsewhere. You won’t want to miss it.
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In Mao’s China, the population was turned against itself through relentless campaigns known as “Speaking Bitterness.” Of course, this was prompted and forced by the Communists, and it worked to their advantage by tearing apart the fabric of the communities they were “transforming.” We have been doing the same thing here in the West, primarily at work and in our schools, under names like “DEI training,” “unconscious bias training,” “Social-Emotional Learning,” and, broadly, “Sensitivity Training.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay gives the original context for these disastrous “trainings” so we can be better equipped to expose and stop them.
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