[Music] hello everyone it's James Lindsay you are listening to new discourses bullets where I give a short bullet point like summary of a single topic from woke Marxism that we all need to understand so that we can defeat this thing and get it behind us and maybe you know derail them for a century or two and I have another very serious episode to talk about today something that we need to think a lot about at this moment this is a very timely episode although I think it's also Evergreen here's the thing Donald Trump just won
the 2024 American election there is blatantly not just practically but also you can feel it there is a shift of power many things are changing we're seeing corporations abandoning their Dei programs after years ESG is trying to reconfigure itself uh uh woke sounds Hollow and shrill and Goofy even as they try to double down into it in the various places you see major CEOs that were very anti-trump suddenly kissing ass this is a sea change okay and so that means power is on the table and you're going to see a lot of people in the
coming already since transition is already organizing things but in the coming weeks and months and well into the the first first year of Trump's Administration and likely afterwards chasing power and there's a very powerful line a very power powerful narrative on the right which I sometimes refer to as at least being woke right adjacent if not it's uh not uh woke right outright which is about power because the woke right like the woke left covets power they desire power and so there's very popular line I've heard it from very mainstream people in softer and harder
forms but the meme is basically this the left wants power to put their agenda in place conservatives do not want Power they want to be left alone therefore the left will always win we hear it in softer forms like we have to be willing to use our power that I feel like is an example of something that's more true than false but is somewhat it's susceptible let's put it that way it's suscept ible to being misleading it's susceptible to being a truth told falsely as I talked about on a recent episode and so the saying
is that the left wants power and conservatives don't so the left will always win the result of this claim which I think is erroneous in its its uh premises the the result of this claim is that the right needs to be willing now to claim and use power so all of a sudden we have this idea of a muscular right needing to rise to claim power and to wield that power so if you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings this is bamir seeing the ring and saying it's a gift and that should be
a telling thing for you if you're a fan of Star Wars this is that moment where Luke Skywalker is in the cave and he chops the head off of Darth Vader or whatever and then it's actually him this should be a warning to you but it's also based on false premises and that's what I really want to talk about this is poorly framed the meme is poorly framed it is a seductive lie it is a propagandist lie and that Meme one more time is the left wants power the right does not want power or conservatives
don't want Power therefore the left always wins so the right should claim power and wield it and if you don't understand how that's barir staring at the ring of power and getting the whole thing wrong um you're pretty lost or you haven't read the Lord of the Rings or seen the movie one or the other okay now this is super important because the reframing that you need to have gets this right as opposed to getting the meme wrong it is not true that conservatives don't want power and just want to be left alone it is
true that the left wants power that is absolutely true the left worships power the left's religion is power the power to force people to transform into leftists because the leftist religion believes that the Utopia arrives when everyone is fully awakened and truly leftist that's all leftism operates that way but the LIE the mistake the error in this meme is that conservatives don't want power and you might think to yourself well I'm conservative and I actually don't want power I personally am not that interested in power but this isn't actually true it's not about power ver
wanting power versus not wanting power the conservatives take role of power think about how the United States is organized conservatives take roles of power in service the left wants power conservatives want to serve their Community they want to serve the population they call it public service the idea is that you are to be a faithful servant and Steward often if you're Christian especially or Jewish answerable to God and what you choose to do but you are in the American system regardless of God or not you are a servant to the people who elected you you
are serving their interests and that's what the point of our system is so conservatives it's not that conservatives don't want Power it's that conservatives have a fundamentally different relationship with power than the left and getting this messed up and taking the leftist view of power and turning it into something that the so-called right is going to wield is the path of bamir it is the path of Destruction it is the path of fash fascism as opposed to Communism or as the alleged answer to Communism and I've done many podcasts about how fascism's not well here's
another reason why because what fascism boils down to is rightlook values tradition and so on the nation the people blood and soil whatever they are right-wing looking values that have adopted the leftist view of power and its applications conservatives don't have that relationship with power left s are for all intents and purposes personality disordered and psycho otherwise psychopathological individuals who have created philosophies that allow them to apply uh their their their abusive mental illness through the power that they can gain through politics this is simply true it's a unhappy statement but it's simply true it's
what um Luchi called uh a pathocracy it is a government system based on psychopathology and there's good reasons to believe that but the left's relationship with power is that they hate power being exerted on them so they believe that they should be able to claim power to exert it on their enemies you can hear this in all leftism you hear it in Carl Marx and Frederick Engles talking about the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat you hear it in Lenin and Stalin talking about what the dictatorship of the proletariat is supposed to do you
hear it in MA dong in the People's Republic of China talking about what the the dictatorship of the pr Ari is supposed to do the proletariat are the allegedly oppressed people who are going to then seize power and the point of the dictatorship is to destroy your enemies suppress them oppress them destroy them kill them Exile them re-educate them brainwash them that's the left's relationship with power and if conservatives take up that relationship with power they're no longer conservative they are now right-wing Luna ICS they are far right woke right wrest whatever you want to
call it but they are certainly no longer conservatives because they have taken up the leftist relationship with power the conservative relationship with power is that it especially in the uh American sense the conservative relationship of power is power is a dangerous thing and it's something that good people with a mind for faithful service need to hold in order to keep the bad people out that's the whole point it's something that you do to give back to to and help your broader Community because you know if nothing else that you're being a Good Shepherd that you're
taking a role to Keep the Wolves Out of these positions that they covet that they desire so when this is a very different relationship right power through service the idea that you're you're accepting the mantle of power knowing that you don't fully deserve it and you certainly don't have the um the authority the political Authority to wield It Whatever the law says that you have to be light touch you have to protect the people you have to serve the people this is a completely different relationship with power and that Meme takes you away from understanding
that relationship and puts you in the leftest frame again the meme was the left wants power conservatives don't want Power that's why the left always wins so a true right needs to arise that does covet power and will wield it and I'll tell you right now that the line between wielding power and abusing power is extremely thin in especially when you have it so if you don't have extraordinary wisdom and extraordinary restraint knowing even a machine that you're stepping into coveting power is a leftist relationship with power power as a uh mode of Public Service
faithful to something larger than yourself is a conservative especially in the American conservative sense uh relationship with power so this meme is very dis very misleading in a very dangerous way and it's very popular right now therefore I felt like I needed to comment upon it you say with James that's not woke that's not woke Marxism that's not leftism but it is but it is the relationship with power is the same and if you you've heard the saying don't stare into the abyss because the abyss stares back or he who wrestles with monsters may become
a monster himself don't become the enemy you wish to defeat that you fight with these kinds of sayings you've heard these things and the reason is because once you adopt the left's relationship with power you have left the path of wisdom you are no longer a conservative you are something else and you're something dangerous and you're not helping and you're going to also um understand if unless you're a truly diluted person which maybe you are you are likely to understand when you start coveting power and pursuing power and wielding and misusing and abusing power that
you are being Wicked and I mean that fully in the Christian sense of the word that means you are doing wrong and you know you are doing wrong and wicked people try to hide from the fact of their wrongdoing through whatever means usually by blaming other people by externalizing the blame or externalizing the evil onto others and saying that your hands were tied and it was justified it's the only thing you can do if you have stepped into that you need to come back you need to repent that is not that is not a healthy
way to live that is not a solution that is leftism however it dresses itself on the outside you can spout off the most traditionalist values you can ramble on all about your religion you're no different from any other Tyrant if you fail to understand that the entire point of power is service if you want a thriving civilization that maximizes freedom for the maximum number of people and that's an absolute uh it's an absolute na absolutely nasty bit of propaganda out there to say as the meme says that the left wants power conservatives don't want power
so the left always wins so the right needs to desire power as well do not be seduced into coveting power do not be seduced into a libido dominandi do not be seduced into evil because evil has been done to you the Bible says do not to answer evil with evil and I'm telling you that's the wrong way that's what you will end up doing you have to answer evil every single time with good and good means faithful service so it's a different relationship with power I encourage you especially if you are working in anything to
do with policy if you are working with anything to do with elected officials or if you are an elected official to contemplate this to spend some time chewing on it thinking about it to extremely important that you if you are going to be one of our uh so-called leaders that you have the right relationship to power and that you work extra hard in these times under these pressures to make sure that you maintain that relationship you have to be firm you have to protect you have to serve but you can't covet power you can't desire
to wield it and to abuse it [Music]
