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My co-host Christian has put out another video, which I encourage you to go and watch over on his page. In it, he discusses why wokesim seemed to appear out of nowhere, its true origins, and what it will take to defeat it... Will I agree with him, or are Christian and I about to have a fight?
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00:00:00 – Reacting to "The Ruling Class and the Lie They Told Us"
00:00:50 – The first time "white man" became an insult
00:02:36 – The Great Awokening: every institution changed overnight
00:05:08 – Pronoun fights in the Virginia House of Delegates
00:06:26 – The grassroots explanation never made sense
00:07:13 – Who actually runs this country?
00:11:01 – "Democracy is a sham": every society has a ruling class
00:13:33 – Ruling classes are like fire — how do elites justify their rule?
00:16:14 – Every elite needs a legitimizing story, from Alexander to Marx
00:19:02 – Why appealing lies beat hard truths
00:21:10 – America's new ruling class: credentialed managers and technocrats
00:25:23 – Parasitic elites vs the industrialists who built America
00:28:47 – Christopher Lasch, elites with no country, and Karl Popper's liberalism
00:34:04 – Wokeism as the ruling class's justifying myth
00:37:33 – They won the culture war but couldn't govern
00:38:42 – Why waiting for the people to rise up never works
00:43:34 – Accelerationism, Mamdani's New York, and locusts vs refugees
00:48:15 – Elite circulation: the organized minority always wins
00:51:14 – Closing thoughts: an elite of character and achievement
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