Thomas Chatterton Williams
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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You see a kind of willingness to push the boundaries of what is accepted as our agreed upon past.
You see Elon Musk, who's certainly a player in this kind of culture, signaling to the far right descendants of the Nazi Party, the AfD in Germany,
that it's time to rethink our relationship to that past.
So I think it's quite a dangerous game whenever anybody tries to manipulate the shared facts that we use to navigate our collective life.
You see also the language and the kind of revision of history come into play
both language and history with the need to create neologisms like the Gulf of America when Trump plays that game.
But this also has echoes in the power games of the woke left during 2020 when every statue needed to be renamed and when the Woodrow Wilson Center at Princeton University had to be renamed.
It's this desire to strip the past of its power to mean something to us and to implement a new meaning on top of it that serves the interests of that group.
Well, I think we're going to see.
But so far, the indications have been pretty alarming.
I think from the inauguration, from that moment when you saw Trump surrounded by the most powerful tech CEOs in the country,
And then you immediately saw the kind of changes that Mark Zuckerberg was implementing at Meta.
And he went on his press tour to explain his new thinking, to align himself with the kind of, not just with policies of the regime, but with the kind of ethos of the regime.
I think it's important to marinate on the role that corporations play in being enablers of this kind of institutional change.
You know, during...
the great awokening, as it's called, of the 2010s, when social justice orthodoxy was ascendant.
I mean, these are the same corporations that made it very difficult to think independently from that guiding ethos.
You know, fundamentally,
And the clip you just played really drives this point home.
It revolves around an ethos of bullying and of scapegoating.
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