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