Liberty and Justice Conference
Authoritarian Worldview

This episode details the authoritarian worldview that underpins the American Cultural Revolution. First, we cover the history of authoritarian ideas and thinkers that influence what we see today. Then we look into detail how authoritarianism is being applied today.

Authoritarian Worldview
Society and the world is a prison. Life is a curse and not a gift.
Society is divided into conflicting classes by intersectional identity. e.g. opressive whites, opressed blacks, opressed LGBTQ+
Humanity is the Creator, is God.
Humanity creates society and even humanity itself.
Society and humanity can be perfected. Unity can be achieved and all conflicting classes removed.
Society is perfected through deception, destruction, coercion and force. The ends justify the means.
Authoritarians with "critical consciousness" must be given full control to completely transform society from a prison to a perfected, sustainable, inclusive world.

Conference

Shooting Soul proudly sponsored the Liberty and Justice conference in Clearwater, FL on July 20-22, 2023 hosted by Sovereign Nations. The conference featured James Lindsay from New Discourses, Michael O’Fallon from Sovereign Nations, Cathy Kiang from Asians for Liberty, survivors of Mao’s China Xi Van Fleet and Lily Tang Williams and more.

Recaps of Conference Talks

• Cultural Revolution
• Authoritarian Worldview (this episode)
• Political Warfare (future)
• Christian Nationalism (future)
• Second Enlightenment (future)

Episode References

03:31 Hermeticism

• "Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
  Three Initiates. "Chapter X Polarity" The Kybalion, 1912, https://sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/kyb12.htm
• "THAT which is the Fundamental Truth--the Substantial Reality--is beyond true naming, but the Wise Men call it THE ALL."
  Three Initiates. "Chapter IV The All" The Kybalion, 1912, https://sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/kyb06.htm
• "Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."
  Three Initiates. "Chapter III Mental Transmutation" The Kybalion, 1912, https://sacred-texts.com/eso/kyb/kyb05.htm
• "Yet if biologists continue to show that sex is a spectrum, then society and state will have to grapple with the consequences, and work out where and how to draw the line."
  Ainsworth, Claire. "Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic" Nature magazine, 22 October 2018, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
• "Within the next century or two, we humans are likely to upgrade ourselves into gods and change the most basic principles of the evolution of life."
  Harari, Noah Yuval. "Our Nonconscious Future" Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May 2018, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Our-Nonconscious-Future-2119857

04:26 Plato

• "For Plato we should live according to what reason is able to deduce from what we regard as reliable evidence. This is what real philosophers, like Socrates, do. But the non-philosophers are reluctant to ground their lives on logic and arguments. They have to be persuaded. One means of persuasion is myth. Myth inculcates beliefs. It is efficient in making the less philosophically inclined, as well as children (cf. Republic 377a ff.), believe noble things."
  Partenie, Catalin, "Plato’s Myths", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/plato-myths
• "Kallipolis has more clearly totalitarian features. First, totalitarian regimes concentrate political power in one bloc and offer the ruled no alternative. The ideal city of Plato’s Republic is plainly totalitarian in this respect."
  Brown, Eric, "Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/plato-ethics-politics
• This book explains how we are largely ruled by experts who use noble lies. "This is the story of how the rise of the myth of popular sovereignty provided the perfect opportunity for an ascendant class of intelligentsia to gain power through acts of cultural and ideological ventriloquism. It is the story of the managerial revolution. It tells of how an apparently new class maneuvered itself into power over the last century or so and how it has achieved hegemony in the form that is called here managerial liberalism."
  McConkey, Dr. Michael. The Managerial Class on Trial, 2021.
• "The planet is thus the center of the global economic system, and its health should be optimized in the decisions made by all other stakeholders. ... The well-being of people in one society affects that of those in another, and it is incumbent on all of us as global citizens to optimize the well-being of all."
  Schwab, Klaus and Vanham, Peter. "What is Stakeholder Capitalism?" The Davos Agenda 2021, World Economic Forum, 22 January 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/klaus-schwab-on-what-is-stakeholder-capitalism-history-relevance/

05:21 Gnosticism

• "In other words, nature is, for modern Existentialism, merely indifferent, while for the Gnostics it was actively hostile toward the human endeavor."
  Moore, Edward. "Gnosticism" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://iep.utm.edu/gnostic/
• "...the method employed by the Gnostics, which we may call the 'revelatory' method, was founded upon the idea that they (the Gnostics) had received a supra-cosmic revelation, either in the form of a 'call,' or a vision, or even, perhaps, through the exercise of philosophical dialectic."
  Moore, Edward. "Gnosticism" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://iep.utm.edu/gnostic/
• "Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or whatever, aren’t wrong; they’re low-level. The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you’re into than you do, and they explain their superiority as being “liberated” from the limitations “THEY” (your teachers, pastors, etc.) are placing upon your knowledge. They don’t want you to know these secrets, but we do. That’s the Gnostic temptation."
  Lindsay, James. "The Gnostic Temptation" New Discourses Bullets, Episode 61, 3 August 2023, https://newdiscourses.com/2023/08/the-gnostic-temptation/
• Campbell, Bradley and Manning, Jason. The Rise of Victimhood Culture, 2018
• Carney, Timothy P. "There’s Some Truth in Those Bizarre Charts About ‘whiteness’" The Washington Examiner, 20 July 2020, https://www.aei.org/op-eds/theres-some-truth-in-those-bizarre-charts-about-whiteness/
• Mercuri Phd, Mathew. "Just follow the science: A government response to a pandemic" PubMed Central, 11 October 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7675691/

06:39 Hegel

• "On this reading, Being is the positive moment or thesis, Nothing is the negative moment or antithesis, and Becoming is the moment of aufheben or synthesis—the concept that cancels and preserves, or unifies and combines, Being and Nothing."
  Maybee, Julie E., "Hegel’s Dialectics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/hegel-dialectics
• "Finally, because the dialectical process leads to increasing comprehensiveness and universality, it ultimately produces a complete series, or drives “to completion” (SL-dG 33; cf. SL-M 54; PhG §79). Dialectics drives to the “Absolute”, to use Hegel’s term, which is the last, final, and completely all-encompassing or unconditioned concept or form in the relevant subject matter under discussion (logic, phenomenology, ethics/politics and so on)."
  Maybee, Julie E., "Hegel’s Dialectics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/hegel-dialectics
• Gonzalez, Mike. "'1619' Pulitzer Will Boost Socialist Teaching in Schools" The Heritige Foundation, 11 May 2020, https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/1619-pulitzer-will-boost-socialist-teaching-schools
• Treisman, Rachel. "Texas governor decries school library books with 'pornographic or obscene material'" NPR, 2 November 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051471236/texas-governor-abbott-calls-for-removal-of-obscene-school-library-books

08:13 Marxism

• "Marx sees the historical process as proceeding through a series of modes of production, characterised by (more or less explicit) class struggle, and driving humankind towards communism...a future classless society (communism) will not contain systematic forms of alienation."
  Wolff, Jonathan and David Leopold, "Karl Marx", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/marx/
• "While traditional Christian theology asserts that God created man in God’s own image, Marx fully accepted Feuerbach’s inversion of this picture, proposing that human beings had invented God in their own image; indeed a view that long pre-dated Feuerbach. ... But the political state and religion will both be transcended when a genuine community of social and economic equals is created."
  Wolff, Jonathan and David Leopold, "Karl Marx", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/marx/
• "The purpose of this exercise is to map out different domains of your social identity (i.e., social group membership) and to reflect on how these domains intersect with one another to shape your life experiences. We are socialized into seeing oppressive social relations and structures (e.g., personal bias, social prejudice, institutional discrimination, inequitable social structures) based on social group memberships as natural and normal."
  Worksheet. "Time and Place at UBC: Our Histories and Relations" University of British Columbia, 2014, http://timeandplace.ubc.ca/files/2014/06/Appendix-2.pdf
• Stanford offered a certificate in ending racism and oppression from 2019-2021 that was an award winning course. "The program uses a self-tailored curriculum to provide training in three main pedagogical areas: 1. Critical understanding of identity and positionality, 2. Exploration of the current and historical oppressive infrastructures (external and internal) that have arrested progress towards a just future, and 3. Development of a culturally competent praxis to substantiate transformative and inclusive change."
  Course. "Certificate in Critical Consciousness and Anti-Oppressive Praxis" Stanford Medicine, 2019, https://med.stanford.edu/diversity/programs/professional-development-and-leadership/certificate-in-critical-consciousness-and-anti-oppressive-praxis.html
  Sullivan, Kathleen. "The 2021 President’s Awards for Excellence Through Diversity recognize a student, an associate dean, a professor and a Stanford Medicine program", Stanford Report, 9 June 2021, https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/06/09/2021-presidents-awards-excellence-diversity/

09:53 Maoism

• "Identity politics was a hallmark of Maoism, dividing people into five 'red classes' and five 'black classes.' The 'red classes' were identified as poor and lower-middle-class peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, cadres, and revolutionary martyrs. The 'black classes' were landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, bad-influencers, and rightists. Mao shut down the schools and universities, urged the Red Guard (urban youth) to hate and hold “Struggle Sessions” to shame the black classes publicly by forcing them to self-criticize, confess their “crimes” and denounce themselves."
  Williams, Lily Tang. "A Chinese immigrant’s warning on Critical Race Theory" New Hampshire Union Leader, 15 April 2021, https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/lily-tang-williams-a-chinese-immigrant-s-warning-on-critical-race-theory/article_88cc1f5c-a3ae-5c63-b16d-059e34f67d83.html
• This book contains first hand accounts and psychological analysis of Chinese thought reform prisons where inmates were subjected to struggle sessions. Inmates went through both physical and psychological torture and also participated in struggle sessions against other inmates.
  Lifton, Robert J. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China, 1961.
• Arceneaux, Michael. "Sometimes It’s Perfectly OK to Hate Those Who Believe in Your Oppression" The Root, 26 October 2016, https://www.theroot.com/sometimes-it-s-perfectly-ok-to-hate-those-who-believe-i-1790857411
• Microgressions, political incorrectness and non-woke, non-progessive beliefs must be excluded in order to make an inclusive safe space where everyone belongs. If you don't have the correct authopritarian worldview, then you are preventing unity.
  Washington, Ella F. "Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions at Work" Harvard Business Review, 10 May 2022, https://hbr.org/2022/05/recognizing-and-responding-to-microaggressions-at-work

11:27 Fabian Socialism

• "At the top Sidney Webb and Shaw himself are shown hammering out a new world on an anvil beneath an emblem of a wolf in sheep’s clothing reflecting the Society’s gradualist approach."
  Donnely, Sue. "Hammering out a new world – the Fabian Window at LSE" London School of Economics, 13 September 2017, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/09/13/hammering-out-a-new-world-the-fabian-window-at-lse/
• "The clever artifice of feigning 'respectability,'' while at the same time subverting society for revolutionary purposes, is a Fabian tactic that has had phenomenal success. ... Fabians who claim that they advocate only peaceable socialist objectives are given the lie by their frequent defense of Stalin’s bloody mass murders."
  Sabhlok, Sanjeev. "The deceptive, murderous Fabian socialists" Sanjeev Sabhlok's blog, 6 January 2011, https://www.sabhlokcity.com/2011/01/the-deceptive-murderous-fabian-socialists/
• In the name of sustainability, the Dutch are limiting their farming output. This is an example of the general, artifical scaricity of energy, goods, and services done in the name of saving the planet. Symons, Angela. "Dutch farmers could be paid to close their livestock farms under new scheme" Euro News, 3 May 2023, https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/03/dutch-farmers-could-be-paid-to-close-their-livestock-farms-under-new-scheme
• This is an example of the cultural revolution to destroy Western Civilization by destroying statues of key historical figures. "'To me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue or Thomas Jefferson, they all need to come down,' Rye concluded."
  Schwartz, Ian. "CNN's Angela Rye: Washington, Jefferson Statues 'Need To Come Down'" Real Clear News, 18 August 2017, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/18/cnns_angela_rye_washington_jefferson_statues_need_to_come_down.html

12:24 Herbert Marcuse

• "Cultural Marxism considers cultures and ideologies as inextricably linked to the economic, social, and political context: they are tools in the hands of the powerful to control the people. ... In contrast to orthodox Marxism, Marcuse championed non-integrated forces like minorities, outsiders and radical intelligentsia, attempting to nourish oppositional thought through promoting radical thinking and opposition"
  Bolton, K.R. "Cultural Marxism: Origins, Development and Significance" The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies Vol. 43, Iss. 3/4, (Fall 2018/Winter 2019): 272-284 https://jspes.org/samples/JSPES43_3_4_bolton.pdf
• "The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed. In other words, today tolerance appears again as what it was in its origins, at the beginning of the modern period--a partisan goal, a subversive liberating notion and practice. Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression."
  Marcuse, Herbert. "Repressive Tolerance" in A Critique of Pure Tolerance, Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., and Herbert Marcuse. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965, https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
• "Critical Theory, instead, characterizes itself as a method contrary to the 'fetishization' of knowledge, one which considers knowledge as something rather functional to ideology critique and social emancipation. In the light of such finalities, knowledge becomes social criticism and the latter translates itself into social action, that is, into the transformation of reality."
  Corradetti, Claudio. "The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://iep.utm.edu/critical-theory-frankfurt-school/#SH2a
• "In that sense, a critical consciousness, sometimes referred to as 'critical literacy' or 'social justice literacy' now (see examples below), refers essentially to assuming that society is constructed by systems of power that manifest dominance and oppression mostly in terms of 'intersecting' demographic group identities."
  Lindsay, James. "Critical Consciousness" Social Justice Encyclopedia, 8 July 2020, https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-consciousness/
• These are some examples of tolerance shown to movements on the Left that support the authoritarian's agenda.
  Downey, Caroline. "D.C. Enforced Defacement Law against Pro-Lifers While Letting BLM Protesters Walk, Court Rules" National Review, 15 August 2023, https://www.nationalreview.com/news/d-c-enforced-defacement-law-against-pro-lifers-while-letting-blm-protesters-walk-court-rules/
  Oladipo, Gloria. "US cities to pay record $80m to people injured in 2020 racial justice protests" The Guardian, 25 May 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/us-cities-settlement-protesters-blm-racial-justice
  Concha, Joe. "CNN ridiculed for ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ caption with video of burning building in Kenosha" The Hill, 27 August 2020, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/
• Betz, Bradford. "Whistleblowers: FBI targeted parents via terrorism tools despite Garland's testimony that it didn't happen" Fox News, 11 May 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-targeted-parents-via-terrorism-tools-despite-garland-testimony
• Mock, Aaron. "Harvard professor emerita says Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is 'fundamentally intolerable' and a threat to political stability" Business Insider, 31 January 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-professor-elon-musk-twitter-meta-fundamentally-intolerable-threat-democracy-2023-1
• "Lighthouse Action on Social Justice through Stakeholder Inclusion highlights how businesses paving the path towards integrating social justice and sustainable development are partnering with impacted stakeholders to place them at the centre of both their sustainability initiatives and core business functions."
  Sangokoya, David. "Lighthouse Action on Social Justice through Stakeholder Inclusion" World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/projects/lighthouse-projects-on-social-justice-and-sustainability
  de Boer, Enno. "The next chapter: Lighthouses shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution" McKinsey and Company, 13 January 2023, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/the-next-chapter-lighthouses-shape-the-fourth-industrial-revolution

13:48 Antonio Gramsci

• "What the intellectual must do is forge a culture war against the popular consensus of particular contexts. In this way, Gramsci’s cultural revolution takes aim at each national culture and seeks to change it accordingly. As stated earlier, it does so by undermining the hegemonic control of cultural, academic, religious, and political institutions by the 'bourgeois' order in any given place."
  Dooley, Mark. "Antonio Gramsci’s Long Struggle" Public Discourse, The Witherspoon Institute, 1 June 2022, https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/06/82558/
• This illustrates the infilitration of the military.
  Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge. "Space Force commander removed after saying Marxism is infiltrating the military" New York Post, 16 May 2021, https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/space-force-commander-removed-after-marxism-comments-on-podcast/
• This illustrates the infilitration of education.
  Burke PhD, Lindsey M. and Gonzalez, Mike. "To Tackle Critical Theory in the K–12 Classroom, Start with Colleges of Education" The Heritage Foundation, 7 October 2020, https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/tackle-critical-theory-the-k-12-classroom-start-colleges-education
• This illustrates the infilitration of business, art and culture.
  Ramaswamy, Vivek. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, 2021
• This talk illustrates the infilitration of relgion.
  O'Fallon, Michael. "The Third Leg of the Stool" Sovereign Nations, 10 February 2023, https://sovereignnations.com/2023/02/10/third-leg-of-the-stool-michael-ofallon/

14:40 Kimberle Crenshaw

• "Because of their intersectional identity as both women and of color within discourses that are shaped to respond to one or the other, women of color are marginalized within both. ... My focus on the intersections of race and gender only highlights the need to account for multiple grounds of identity when considering how the social world is constructed."
  Crenshaw, Kimberle. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" Stanford Law Review https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf
• "Intersectionality is how multiple identities interact to create unique patterns of oppression."
  El Gharib, Sarah. "What Is Intersectionality and Why Is It Important?" Global Citizen, 16 February 2022, https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/what-is-intersectionality-explained/
• This illustrates how you can't be seen as an individual and must adhere to your intersectional identity.
  Smith, Erika D. "Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned" Los Angeles Times, 20 August 2021, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians

17:40 Class Struggle

• Source for video clip of Robin DiAngelo interview.
  Martin, Michel. "Robin DiAngelo on 'White Fragility'" Amanpour & Co., 21 September 2018, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/robin-diangelo-on-white-fragility/

21:39 Humanity is God

• Source for video clip of Yuval Noah Harari.
  Harari, Yuval Noah. "Will the Future Be Human?" World Economic Forum, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9uk4hKyg4
• “'Trans people are sacred. We are the divine.'”
  Marshall, Alex. "At Shakespeare’s Globe, a Nonbinary Joan of Arc Causes a Stir" The New York Times, 1 September 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/theater/joan-of-arc-nonbinary-globe.html
• Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2015

24:53 Expert Rule

• Source for video clip of Judge Kitanji Brown Jackson.
  "Jackson Confirmation Hearing, Day 2 Part 6" C-SPAN, 22 March 2022, https://www.c-span.org/video/?518342-102/jackson-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-6
• "...Harris gives voice to a leftist-progressive narrative about the importance of equity—equal outcomes—rather than mere equality before the law."
  Soave, Robby. "Kamala Harris Says Equal Outcomes Should Be the Goal of Public Policy" Reason Magazine, 2 November 2020, https://reason.com/2020/11/02/kamala-harris-equality-equity-outcomes/
• Only the experts with critical conciousness understand the world. "Instead, what Social Justice scholars seem in practice to do is to select certain favored interpretations of marginalized people's experience (those consistent with Theory) and anoint these as the 'authentic' ones; all others are explained away as an unfortunate internalization of dominant ideologies or cynical self-interest."
  Pluckrose, Helen and Lindsay, James. Cynical Theories p. 210, 2020

26:37 Cult-like

• Source for video clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
  Todd, Chuck. "Fauci on GOP attacks: 'Just painfully ridiculous ... [from people] who want to put me in jail'" Meet the Press Daily, 9 June 2021, https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/fauci-on-gop-attacks-just-painfully-ridiculous-from-people-who-want-to-put-me-in-jail-114555461888
• "The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials (with 'racist ideas' and 'public official' clearly defined). It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas."
  Kendi, Ibram X. "Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment" Politico, 2019, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/

28:38 Destruction

• Source for video clip of Rahm Emanuel.
  CEO Council. "Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis" The Wall Street Journal, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzcbXi1Tkk
• This article explains how the United States has racism embedded in it from the beginning and remains racist in it's soul. The implication is the US must be destroyed. " Freedom and slavery, democratic ideas and white supremacy, existed long before the nation’s founding. The tensions produced by these competing forces were embedded in the essence of the American republic...But as modern commentators have observed, despite a ghastly war fought over slavery and more than 150 years of concerted efforts by African American and white activists, 'the notion of America as white and Christian has stubbornly refused to dissipate.' The soul of the nation remains white."
  Yacovone, Donald. "How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric" The Harvard Gazette, 19 September 2022, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/how-nations-schools-taught-white-supremacism/
• "In passing the PATRIOT Act, Congress enacted a “solution” to preventing another 9/​11‐​like debacle without having any evidence that a lack of surveillance powers was what allowed Osama bin Laden’s suicide hijackers to succeed in killing nearly 3,000 Americans."
  Eddington, Patrick G. "The PATRIOT Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years" Cato Institute, 21 October 2021, https://www.cato.org/commentary/patriot-act-has-threatened-freedom-20-years
• "The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible."
  Schwab, Klaus. "Now is the time for a 'great reset'" World Economic Forum, 3 June 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
• "More immediately, the polycrisis requires us to take seriously the coexistence of quick (pandemic, war) and slow (climate change, biodiversity decline) crises...Our ability to learn from history is negligible, because such a concatenation of social, political, economic and ecological factors has never taken place."
  Lähde, Ville. "The Polycrisis" Aeon, 17 August 2023, https://aeon.co/essays/the-case-for-polycrisis-as-a-keyword-of-our-interconnected-times

30:39 Political Warfare

• Source for video clip of Joe Rogan.
  Rogan, Joe. "Dr. Sanjay Gupta" The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode 1718, October 2021, https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rAgS1KiUvLRNP4HfUePpA
• These articles demonstrate shaming people and organizations to confess to their false crime of racism.
  Solzhenitsyn, Dmitri. "A YouTuber Catches Stunning Dogmatism in New York City" National Review, 15 June 2020, https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/youtuber-trolls-white-new-yorkers-who-feel-guilt-ridden-about-race/
  Stratford, Michael. "Education Department investigates Princeton for admitting ‘systemic racism’ on campus" Politico, 17 September 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/17/education-department-investigates-princeton-for-systemic-racism-417454
• This article demonstrates noble lies used by politicians and the media.
  Taibbi, Matt. "16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It" Rolling Stone, 22 March 2019, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/
• "Gender fluidity refers to change over time in a person’s gender expression or gender identity, or both. That change might be in expression, but not identity, or in identity, but not expression. Or both expression and identity might change together."
  Katz-Wise, PhD, Sabra L. "Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters" Harvard Health Publishing, 3 December 2020, https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/gender-fluidity-what-it-means-and-why-support-matters-2020120321544
• Nevradakis, Ph.D., Michael. "‘Brought to You by Pfizer’: Pharma Giant Spends More on Ads, News Sponsorships, Than Research" The Defender, Children's Health Defense, 2 November 2021, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccination-ads-news-sponsorships-research/
• "Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters."
  Berstein, Carl. "The CIA and the Media" Rolling Stone, 20 October 1977, https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977?rq=the%20cia%20and%20the%20media"
• Greenwald, Glenn. "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations" The Guardian, 11 June 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
• Cummings, William. "Six big leaks from Julian Assange's WikiLeaks over the years" USA Today, 11 April 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/11/julian-assange-six-wikileaks-most-memorable-revelations/3434371002/
• Wulfsohn, Joseph A. "What Elon Musk's Twitter Files have uncovered about the tech giant so far" Fox News, 22 January 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/what-elon-musks-twitter-files-uncovered-about-tech-giant

32:53 Socially Constructed Reality

• Source for video clip of Professor Julian Allwood.
  Allwood, Julian. "Absolute Zero" UK Fires, The Use Less Group, 6 December 2020, https://www.uselessgroup.org/projects/ukfires
• "Supposed climate calamities linked to man's actions run the gamut...The linkage has one goal: to instill fear so that we will welcome the imposition of radical, costly regulations on our lives."
  Wrightstone, Gregory. Inconvienient Facts p. 57, 2017, https://inconvenientfacts.xyz/
• Incorrect climate crisis predictions over the last 50 years.
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• "Building wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity, as well as batteries to fuel electric vehicles, requires, on average, more than 10 times the quantity of materials, compared with building machines using hydrocarbons to deliver the same amount of energy to society."
  Mills, Mark P. "Mines, Minerals, and 'Green' Energy: A Reality Check" Manhattan Institute, 9 July 2020, https://manhattan.institute/article/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-a-reality-check
• Bary, Emily. "Mastercard will let you track the climate impact of your spending habits" Market Watch, 12 April 2021, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-will-let-you-track-the-climate-impact-of-your-spending-habits-11618229211
• Murray, Jess. "Why eating insects could help the fight against climate change and save the environment" Discover Wildlife, 21 June 2023, https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/why-eating-insects-could-help-fight-climate-change/
• Saul, Jonathan. "Top global companies call for zero emissions shipping by 2050" Reuters, 21 September 2021, https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/top-global-companies-call-zero-emmissions-shipping-by-2050-2021-09-21/

37:28 Suicidal Path

• Source for video clip of George Orwell (actor portrayal).
  Marshall, Collin. "For 95 Minutes, the BBC Brings George Orwell to Life" Open Culture, 9 March 2012, https://www.openculture.com/2012/03/bbc_brings_george_orwell_to_life_.html
• "In 1958, Chairman Mao launched a radical campaign to outproduce Great Britain, mother of the Industrial Revolution, while simultaneously achieving Communism before the Soviet Union. But the fanatical push to meet unrealistic goals led to widespread fraud and intimidation, culminating not in record-breaking output but the starvation of approximately one in twenty Chinese."
  Brown, Clayton D. “China’s Great Leap Forward” Asian Studies, 2012, https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/chinas-great-leap-forward/
• "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
  Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 8 June 1949.
• “No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
  Orwell, George. Animal Farm, 17 August 1945.