Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. Woke isn't an accidental product of algorithms. It's an intentional product of academia. Later, programmers tuned algorithms to intersectional criteria. Yet woke preceded algorithm.
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  2. BBC want to know: "how can we be more efficient in our authoritarianism?"
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  3. Today: "the science is backing us", can often mean "we're lying"; but we don't know we're lying.
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  4. "What drives someone to be like that?" - They are basically all narcissists; but with even more issues. We know that because they blow a fuse when anyone either criticises them, or, describes them realistically as they are!
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  5. Zuckerberg is redeemed by himself, not by me.
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  6. It makes him guilty of "saving the world". We'll never know otherwise because his critics will all be cancelled.
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  7. Cressida - a character in one of Shakespear's plays. Also famous as Cressida of Troy. Cressida, Indigo - why do they all have posh names? "We're asking people, ..." <- no you're not. You're ordering us - like entitled, posh, conceited people always have.
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  8. I think Starmer wanted a conflict. Labour see everything in terms of politics, and anyone who criticises them as "right-wing". A woke political party can't be anything but conflict-seeking.
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  9. J. K. Rowling didn't even say that. She said women's spaces were for women born women; for biological women. Rowling would never use your terminology; she'd never accuse another person of not being "real".
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  10. US Supreme Court just declared it illegal. Fink he can read the writing on the wall.
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  11. They clearly picked the wrong name. Maybe they should have another go as the StraightMax movement?
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  12. As Rina Oh was an adult she knew what she was doing - so how can she claim to be a retrospective victim? She could've left Epstein but she stayed.
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  13. 'born in the wrong body' is part of the catechism of the original transition cult. Once an idea has been ordained as holy words in a cult its hard to change the catechism.
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  14. This woke gen are clearly not satisfied with being different - they want you to be different. The want you to be lucy 49
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  15. Re: Internet archive. Two arguments Internet Archive could use is that 1) they provide copies of books no longer in print (OOP), and or that they provide digital copies (rather than paper copies) of books unavailable in digital form. Consider an OOP book, for example: "The theory of democratic elitism; a critique" by Peter Bachrach, 1968. It is not in print. Nor is it likely to ever get into print again as the audience for it must be tiny. So no one is actually making money by distributing it. Yet at the Internet Archive the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS say "No suitable files to display here. EPUB and PDF access not available for this item". So, had the Internet archive submitted a defence that they made avaiable almost impossible to obtain OOP books - they'd had a more convincing argument. I think the publishers went after them because many of the books Internet Archive scanned were still in print. Had Internet Archive restricted themselves to making available either out of copyright and out of print books I doubt the publishers would've gone after them.
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  16. We can't blame them for their ignorance of nuclear power. Everyone is basically in the dark over nuclear power. They actually criticised the French for taking most of their reactors off-grid for "maintenance" at the same time.
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  17. "Tariffs raise prices" is not a "libertarian" argument. It is a free market, pro-trade argument. The argument is that each country does what it does best. Tariffs are like subsidy. Tariffs suppot inefficient industries.
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  18. Cultural makeup is the issue - not racial.
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  19.  @Wisdomabovegold  Yes. Too many young male Western haters are allowed in. As demonstrated in recent street demonstrations.
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  20.  @KrimsonStorm  Proggies call themselves "progressive"; despite many of their policies being ultra-regressive. I call myself a pragmatist or skeptic - not a conservative. I guess it's habit.
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  21. With computer programming one can do something when the computer program crashes with senseless error messages - one can rewrite the compiler to give more sensible error messages.
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  22. James Lindsay actually recently gave his most detailed defence yet of Liberalism. Here: Introduction to Classical Liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbpA6pVBrw Problems with Classical Liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbufcSxIC4E So Lindsay is taking his critics seriously.
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  23. Thanks for the hat-tip to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. The Concept of Representation was published in 1967. Hanna was born in Germany in 1931 (hence her firstname) but emigrated to the USA in 1938 (hence her second two names). Her Berkeley doctoral thesis (1961) was also on "The Theory of Political Representation". Two books to begin with are: 2016: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, Action - a collection of essays on a wide variety of sources 1967: The Concept of Representation This is one of the few political podcasts which actually recommend books. Why I keep coming back to it. PS: Her name is Pitkin, not Pitkins.
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  24.  @disbeafakename167  But also plenty of moms, transing their kids, who have no judgement.
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  25. Sound vanished at 20:24 GMT. That also happened 20 minutes ago when I was listening to the DarkHorse Podcast - also on trans gender issues. What a coincidence!!
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  26. No one, except a biologist, need do research on "what a woman is". A woman is an adult human female ( OED definition ).
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  27. Alt-culture is ethnicity. Or rather: ethnicity is another culture.
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  28. I tend to agree with Carl on the trick socialism plays on us: it pretends to be a better form of liberalism. Neo-Marxist Adorno calls this trick the "secret Utopia at the heart of reason". This idea actually provides Adorno with the thrust of his "Critical Theory". The trick is to use the ideals of liberalism - universalism, liberty, justice, freedom, equality, excellence - against liberalism - to push ideals to even more universal ideals. To socialism, it you will. You could say the BLM and transing movement took their playbook from Adorno. In fairness to Adorno - he thinks there can be no other way forward, not only for socialism but also for liberalism and conservatism. Lindsay's project has been to try to ken how we got here from there. Why did academia come to conclude that: woke, DEI, and sustainability are a way forward for the West? - when they are clearly just novel ways for us to burn our house down? Yet the path taken by woke was NOT inevitable. So the fact that path was taken out of the Liberal heritage does not mean Liberalism is a failure or wrong. The fact that path was taken at all - must alert us to inherent weaknesses and contradictions within Liberalism. Yet to paraphrase Churchill: "Liberalism is the worst social system, except for all its rivals". I think Lindsay sees it that way. Carl seems to imply he has an alternative to liberalism. Communism, Fascism, and Woke all claim to be alternatives to Liberalism. I think Lindsay, and Carl are both on target here. But in different ways. Lindsay identifies the "Long March Through the Institutions" as key, so does Matthew Goodwin. There's no doubt in my mind that much of academia is intent on using the academy to forward, petty, and non-viable Left politics simply because they can. Lindsay also tracks woke back to its origins in Marcuse's very distinct brand of neo-Marxism. By can large, Lindsay is right on most things. Carl and Lindsay both see weaknesses, and flaws in our liberal societies. Carl believes the flaws are there by design. Lindsay believes the flaws are there by corruption. Carl needs to be more precise. Can he describe his ideas, in more detail, especially which aspects of liberalism Carl would abandon. Otherwise, if Carl calls himself a conservative, likes Christianity, and harshly criticises Liberalism, then Lindsay may classify Carl as yet another "Christian Nationalist". Given US CNs have been harassing Lindsay lately, he's react as he does.
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  29. JRM might agree with one in private. In public he holds the Blairite line we've seen for the last 26 years. No politician with a seat will break the line on multi-culturalism.
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  30.  @Wisdomabovegold  I don't agree that immigrants must be Judeo-Christian, I'm happy with immigrants from the Hindu / Buddhist / Sikh / Confuscian, ... traditions. Because we're criminalized if we criticize Islam in public we speak in coded-language - talking about JudeoChristian when we mean Not-Islamic. We can't call a spade a spade, so we call it a spoon instead and I interpret your words as a discussion on food when we're talking about gardening. The consequences of dumb censorship are a dumb society.
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  31.  @anthonydowney6069  "I guess you'd be happy to accede to every black and brown males demands ..." <- imagining you know what another person thinks is called "projection". In psychology, it's a way we have of "displacing". So, when some stranger projects onto you, one should assume that they are guilty of what they accuse you of!
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  32. What is the point of that analogy? Are you implying that we must all choose between Marxism and Christianity?, that there's no legitimate 3rd, or 4th path? If so: who among you is actually a practicing Christian or Marxist? In terms of people practicing religion there's probably more Muslims than Christians in Britain.
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  33. The woke hatred of Jordan Peterson is real. There's a picture of JP and CR7 standing together - it sent woke Reddit batshit crazy with hate.
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  34. Otherwise known as groupthink. Every syncophant wants to be top groveller because they believe it's the route to career sucess. So they end up as one massive echo chamber for the ONE malicious mind. A psychopath's utopia.
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  35. No need. UK tap water has chlorine in it to kill bacteria. The flouride is supposed to stop tooth decay. Flouride does not stop bacterial growth or infection; and won't preserve anything. BTW: formaldehyde is as harmful to you as methanol - 25 mL/each recently killed 6 tourists in Laos. Oral LD-50 dose (mg/kg body weight) methanol: 300–1,000 formaldehyde: 600–800 Formic acid: 1100 to 1850 methanol oxidises to formaldehyde which oxidises to formic acid.
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  36. But these blokes don't call themselves straight men; they call themselves lesbians!
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  37. Doesn't Kendi have a doctorate? So funny hearing him lost in tautology.
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  38. Presumably because 500 million mosquitoes will be both sterile and relatively harmless. The are lab animals. I know Gates (with Soros) is a favorite evil magnate to poke fun at but every idea his minions come up with cannot be Evil, evil. We should be more concerned with his plans to "fix" the climate, since the climate's not broke.
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  39. She thinks "they are blank automatons who can be easily programmed by messaging" <- they seem to think that of all of us.
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  40. Who is the GB News "editorial director"? Are there specific rules, mandated by government, or OFCOM, which mandate an "editorial director"?
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  41. Global elites will stop at nowt to get us all munching insects.
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  42. Englishman Berger died 5 years ago and was born 95 years ago. His art criticism predates the '60s which is the real origin of woke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger
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  43. The Internet has this to say about ressentiment : ----- Ressentiment is a French word that means a deep-seated feeling of resentment, frustration, or hostility. It can also refer to a sense of powerlessness to express these feelings directly. The concept of ressentiment was of particular interest to 19th-century thinkers, most notably Friedrich Nietzsche. However, Nietzsche did not invent the term, which was already in circulation in his lifetime. Some say that ressentiment is an emotional mechanism that can help explain the psychological foundations of reactionary politics, right-wing populism, Islamic fundamentalism, and radicalism. Some characteristics of ressentiment include: A feeling of being a victim - A reassessment of what was once desired or valued as something undesirable - A reassessment of oneself from being inferior to being noble and superior - Negative emotions of envy, shame, and anger - Other-directed negative emotions of resentment, indignation, and hatred ----- <- So, the Left labelled ressentiment as an affliction of the "right"!! (Although Nietzsche - who brought it into widespread use - described ressentiment as the afflition of victims and socialists !) <- Consequently, we need to invent a new term for the Left's affliction: "Suicidal empahy", and "auto-psychopathology" seem more appropriate since they describe the consequence of Left ressentiment.
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  44. No one wants to live in "15 minute cities". It's an idea dreamt up by prison warders.
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  45. Those will be called apartheit - so won't be allowed.
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  46. And Islam.
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  47. Lindsay has always blocked a lot of people. I remember about 4 years ago when he systematically blocked everyone on Twitter with pronouns in their bios! That must've been tens of thousands of 'em!! I think Boghassian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose all evolved out of New Atheism of about 15 years ago. Before the SJWs invaded and burnt it. One of the important (to them) conclusions Boghassian & Lindsay came to is that we don't change our minds on important topics; not without first experiencing a massive disjunction between current beliefs and wannabe beliefs. To ditch a current belief one must be confident that the replacement will enable us to better move forward with our lives. So in general, knowing that 99% of Twitter users are closed-minded, and are there just to badger you, why wouldn't one want to block most of 'em?
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  48. "Build back better in a more femine way" < - What? With women bricklayers?
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  49. Just put "Mr Joe Bloggs" in your signature; substituting out "Joe Bloggs" for your actual name. Like we used to do before email existed.
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  50. Eco protestors "abandonned the language of civilized debate" <- I don't think they ever knew or did "civilized debate". It is impossible to debate them. They don't understand the concept of evidence. They live in narrative and post-Truth land.
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