Hate Craft

This article is going to contain mostly quotes from an amazing talk given by Dr. James Lindsay who is an American mathematician, author, and cultural critic. Here is the link to this talk, which contains all of the quotes found below. Anyone interested in what is happening in the world must listen to this talk, so please, after reading this article to whet your appetite, head on over to YouTube to check it out. You will be happy you did.

Lindsay’s talk is titled “The Target is You” and he states at the very start of the talk his focus is on “The Politics of Compliance.” He begins the speech by referring to Mao Zedong, the communist leader of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. The “politics of compliance” is a strategy that Mao used in shaping the Communist Party of China. He states:

There are generally three categories of people when it comes to the politics of compliance. There are the people who are complying, there are the people who are refusing, and the people who aren't sure. And all three are targeted by the politics of compliance roughly the same way, actually, with the same dynamic.

The goal is, of course, to get the compliant to feel better than everybody else, but also frustrated with everybody else. It is to convince those who are not sure to join the program and to begin to comply. And it is to use the people who refuse to comply as the wedge around which the entire thing turns. In fact, it's to dehumanize them and motivate the other two groups to try to destroy them.

Mao basically divided the country into two broad categories rather than the three that Lindsay just explained. These two groups are 1. The People, and 2. The Enemies of the People. In Mao’s China, the second group, the enemies of the people, were all those who did not agree with Mao. And of course “the people” are all those who agreed with him—the compliant ones.

And this sets up a dynamic that I think the best name for is Hate Craft. And here's how it works. The goal of this split is to say that there is a correct perspective on all things. We could call it whatever; the critical race perspective on race, we could call it the queer perspective on sexual politics, and we can all imagine a bunch of examples under COVID.

Obviously concerning Covid, we have the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, the mask wearers and the ones who choose to go maskless, those who believe in the Fauci/CDC/FDA perspective, and those who don’t—divided between the people and the enemies of the people.

There are the people who do the right thing, [and] there are people who do the wrong thing, and the goal is to bring [all] people into the “people's” perspective, which is also called agreeing with the tyranny. And what you do, in order to achieve this idea, is that you separate the population into two broad categories, the people and the enemies of the people, and then you say, "What we want is unity.”

We want unity. But there are certain elements in the population who are preventing us from unity, and [prevents us from] moving into the future that we could be having, and it's their fault. The “people” want to move forward, and the “enemies of the people” are stopping them. The “people” want to open their businesses and go back about their lives, but the people who won't wear masks or take a shot or socially distance or close down their lives or whatever else in the COVID department, are stopping them. We want to open the country back up, but we can't, because there are anti-vaxxers, they are the problem. And that is Hate Craft.

That is teaching the compliant to hate the people who are holding them back. "We did what we were supposed to do. We complied. We did not get our freedom back. We took risks with our lives. We did not get our freedom back. And it's their fault.

Think of the Harris/Walz campaign for the presidency of the United States. Think of their primary thrust of “joy” and “unity.” Think of Public Enemy Number One, Donald Trump, who is killing democracy (democracy is unity), he is infuriated with open borders, and non-vetted immigration (welcoming all immigrants is unity) he is against whatever the left is calling “joyous unity”—he is the leader of the “enemy of the people.”

Lindsay: “I'll mention the best way to create a desire for unity is to create a contentious, fractious, polarized situation where there's tremendous disunity.” Mao went on to say, "New unity on a new basis." Lindsay: “He called it ‘socialist discipline’. We call it sustainable and inclusive future. It's the same thing. We also call it New World Order.”

More from Lindsay:

In other words, we can have unity, which everybody now wants, if and only if we all start to agree on how we're all going to live, which just so happened to be dictated by the tyrants. And everybody who isn't going along is holding us back. The larger the proportion of people that you can get to comply, the more powerful the Hate Craft. Because they, like I said, put their lives on the line, they did things they probably didn't want to do, they sacrificed, they willingly gave away, I should say, their freedoms, willingly gave away their freedoms, and other people didn't. And those people are selfish. Those people are bourgeois. Those people are racists, as opposed to anti-racists.

We could do this in every domain because this same exact dynamic is playing out in every domain. COVID, environmentalism, politics with your deplorable hat, every single identity politics dimension you can imagine from race to sex to gender to sexuality to ability status to fat status to national origin. Get ready for critical immigration theory this year. If you thought 2020 CRT (Critical Race Theory) was bad, you've got CIT (Critical Immigration Theory) coming this year, and its target is you because its actual target is national sovereignty and national citizenship to be compared against global citizenship. People with a global perspective are seeking global unity, a system of interdependence from nation to nation.

And the stupid, backwards, national-loving people who want to keep their national identities or national citizenship, they care about being, say, American citizens rather than "undocumented Americans", or "new Americans", those are the words that are being used. They care more about their own citizenship and its benefits than they do about human rights. The child on the other side of the razor wire is your neighbor too, and you have to love your neighbor as yourself. And they twist every virtue and every value into a weapon of enmity and hate. That's the politics of compliance. That's how it works.

These are powerful words that Dr. Lindsay has for us. Listen carefully, and make every effort to understand thoroughly and authentically. Most of you will do this without much effort. If you know people who are confused about what is happening and who wonder why you are so weird believing the strange stuff you believe, send this link (below) to them so they can hear for themselves. This is the basis of it all. Hate Craft, and it is working terrifyingly well.

I will close with Dr. Lindsay’s last words.

So, I want to just thank you for letting me come and tell you the politics of compliance. The Maoist dynamic is what they've used through COVID. It's what they will use for Disease X, or whatever. It is what they've used for the deplorable MAGAs. It is what they use in all of the identity politics. It's what they're using in environmentalism. It's the same play over and over and over and over again. And the target is you. To destroy you if you disagree, to bring you in under coercion if you're in doubt, and to turn you into a weapon of the state if you've already given in and complied. Learning and understanding this dynamic is crucial. Loving the truth and telling it, is the truth.

“The Target is You—The Politics of Compliance”

(I have a written transcript of this talk. Send me an email at kingshrew@auraboros.com if you would like a copy.)