The Worst Woke Belief | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 54
August 2, 2021
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as posted by the channelThere are a lot of bad ideas in Critical Social Justice and the related Critical Theories. Lots of them. Some of these ideas are much more dangerous than others, and in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I dive into what might be the worst of them: the belief in the perfectability of Man. This is an older idea than just Wokeness that traces back through the neo-Marxists, Marx, and Hegel, and probably even beyond, and it is a terrible idea. Human beings are not perfectable. We are not in the midst of a process of becoming perfect (especially through a dialectical process). This central conceit of all of Hegelian, Marxian, neo-Marxian, and Woke thought is one that is virtually guaranteed to generate unspeakable horrors. Join me for this exploration of this terrible idea and its lurking spectre behind virtually all of Wokeness.
-James Lindsay
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