I talk to a lot of people from Eastern Europe. For them, the WOKE remind them of the Communist Elite. Last week, I talked to a woman from Romania, who talked about her family living in fear that someone would find out what was said in their home, what radio programs they listened to, and what books they read.
I feel like we have imported this to Canada. Wrongthink is now here, and many of the Managerial, Media, Academic Classes are cheering.
There was a recent poll done by FIRE, a civil liberties org in the states. Students are much more afraid on their peers destroying their lives for wrongthink in universities (the base of PMC power) than administrators and instructors. Think about that - future PMC are controlling each others behaviour so hard that they fear being cancelled by their peers at extarordinary rates. Explains the mental health crisis amongst this class pretty good doesn't it? The rate of anxiety? It also explains the monoculture in organs of these people like the media and education better than anything else imo.
Very interesting interview! It gave a new way of thinking about all this wokeism. After listening, it doesn’t feel as much a dooming spiral ending civilization as we’ve known it, but rather a more manageable, survivable cause/effect kind of phenomenon.
Author interviewed comes across as really likable, real and authentic ,questioning human being.
Great conversation. I especially liked how perceptive and self-aware Musa was about how his book generated the interest it did because of the very factors he was critiquing.
And I also very much appreciated Tara's willingness to ask about Musa's faith journey. Too often, it seems to me, journalists and media shy away from these topics as somehow taboo, even though they are central to the lives of huge numbers of people.
It was one of Tara's best interviews in a while. This discussion really clarified a lot of things for me in a really simple straightforward way about what he calls the symbolic caplitalist class or the Professional Managerial class.
I would say that I would naturally be of the Liberal pursuation. However, the disconnect between my experience of the working class, and patronizing view of the working class held by many Liberals has always been jarring.
Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that "White Papers" are an employment program for people with MA's & PHD's. Musa's comment about the class interests in "symbolic capitalism" is close to the target. The managerial class has an interest in redistribution of money's because they get to be employed (with good middle class salaries) in administering the benefits. The working class see these programs as a conflict of interest, which is why they would rather have a better salary, and fewer entitlements.
He also shows that their moral concerns help enrich their material conditions. Putting them to work in one thing. The idea that leftover PMC are fueling awokenings is surely correct. The idea that the distance between the ideology on the PMC and everybody else is immense but is mostly driven by reseentment that the "system" will not acknowledge these people as deserving of special entitlements and jobs is totally real. Impact on less "special" or favoured classes and identities is incidental and unimportant. In another podcast I listened to Musa explains that the PMC have always had favoured demographics - but they have completely changed and are in the process of evolving further.
I talk to a lot of people from Eastern Europe. For them, the WOKE remind them of the Communist Elite. Last week, I talked to a woman from Romania, who talked about her family living in fear that someone would find out what was said in their home, what radio programs they listened to, and what books they read.
I feel like we have imported this to Canada. Wrongthink is now here, and many of the Managerial, Media, Academic Classes are cheering.
There was a recent poll done by FIRE, a civil liberties org in the states. Students are much more afraid on their peers destroying their lives for wrongthink in universities (the base of PMC power) than administrators and instructors. Think about that - future PMC are controlling each others behaviour so hard that they fear being cancelled by their peers at extarordinary rates. Explains the mental health crisis amongst this class pretty good doesn't it? The rate of anxiety? It also explains the monoculture in organs of these people like the media and education better than anything else imo.
Very interesting interview! It gave a new way of thinking about all this wokeism. After listening, it doesn’t feel as much a dooming spiral ending civilization as we’ve known it, but rather a more manageable, survivable cause/effect kind of phenomenon.
Author interviewed comes across as really likable, real and authentic ,questioning human being.
Great conversation. I especially liked how perceptive and self-aware Musa was about how his book generated the interest it did because of the very factors he was critiquing.
And I also very much appreciated Tara's willingness to ask about Musa's faith journey. Too often, it seems to me, journalists and media shy away from these topics as somehow taboo, even though they are central to the lives of huge numbers of people.
It was one of Tara's best interviews in a while. This discussion really clarified a lot of things for me in a really simple straightforward way about what he calls the symbolic caplitalist class or the Professional Managerial class.
I would say that I would naturally be of the Liberal pursuation. However, the disconnect between my experience of the working class, and patronizing view of the working class held by many Liberals has always been jarring.
Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that "White Papers" are an employment program for people with MA's & PHD's. Musa's comment about the class interests in "symbolic capitalism" is close to the target. The managerial class has an interest in redistribution of money's because they get to be employed (with good middle class salaries) in administering the benefits. The working class see these programs as a conflict of interest, which is why they would rather have a better salary, and fewer entitlements.
He also shows that their moral concerns help enrich their material conditions. Putting them to work in one thing. The idea that leftover PMC are fueling awokenings is surely correct. The idea that the distance between the ideology on the PMC and everybody else is immense but is mostly driven by reseentment that the "system" will not acknowledge these people as deserving of special entitlements and jobs is totally real. Impact on less "special" or favoured classes and identities is incidental and unimportant. In another podcast I listened to Musa explains that the PMC have always had favoured demographics - but they have completely changed and are in the process of evolving further.