The Curious Case of the “Woke” Right (2.0)
I don’t think it’s who some people think it is
“In the crowd’s unconscious reigns an instinct far stronger than reason.”
— Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd (modernized)
AI Overview (Gemini)
This statement, "In the crowd's unconscious reigns an instinct far stronger than reason," highlights the idea that when individuals are in a crowd, their behavior is heavily influenced by unconscious, primal instincts rather than rational thought. This concept, popularized by Gustave Le Bon in his book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, suggests that crowds possess a distinct psychology where individuals lose their sense of self and become highly susceptible to suggestion and emotional contagion.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
Loss of Individuality:
In a crowd, individuals shed their individual characteristics and adopt a collective mentality, becoming more susceptible to the emotions and actions of the group.
Influence of the Unconscious:
Le Bon argued that crowds are primarily guided by their unconscious, which is a realm of primal instincts, emotions, and deeply ingrained beliefs.
Suggestibility and Emotional Contagion:
Crowds are highly suggestible, meaning they are easily influenced by the ideas and emotions presented to them, often through powerful imagery or strong leadership. This leads to emotional contagion, where feelings and behaviours spread rapidly through the crowd.
Limited Rationality:
Reason and critical thinking are diminished in a crowd setting. Individuals may act impulsively, without considering the consequences of their actions.
Examples:
Historical events, such as riots or lynchings, can be seen as examples of how crowds, under the influence of strong emotions and suggestions, can engage in irrational and even violent behaviour.
1. The Lens That Sees the Lies
I’ve spent the last decade obsessively chasing down dishonesty—and yes, that may be the gift (and curse) of my own Asperger-style hyperfocus on truth. What I’m discovering is that whenever you challenge the official narrative, the crowd reflexively hurls “Nazi apologist!” at you rather than engage your arguments.
That reflex isn’t about your ideas—it’s a projection of the crowd’s own fear and ego, weaponized by a sprawling Military-Industrial-Bio-Genetic-Fourth-Industrial Complex whose subconscious impulse is to preserve power above all else. Crowd psychology today is supercharged by social media algorithms and “expert” gatekeepers: dissenters become unpeople, silenced for daring to ask the hard questions.
And because I was asking deeper questions like where all the antisemitic rhetoric seemingly popped out of on social media starting almost immediately on October 8th, 2023. it was even more surprising to me to witness, coming up on almost a year ago many people were getting rather fatigued with the Israeli response to the attacks on October 7th, 2023. And that manifested as a new kind of label that transcended Nazi and became “woke right”.
At the time I attempted to rather clumsily explain what I was seeing, and why perhaps my story made me uniquely capable of seeing it. Looking back it’s clear to me now that I was rushed and trying to explain things in an overly personalized way which came out fairly incoherent. So to update the gist of that original post I entered the entire thing into ChaGPT which has become the basis for this new article. You can read it if you like, but it’s clear I was experimenting and just throwing things at the wall.
However a great conversation just came out on Brett Weinstein’s Darkhorse podcast with one of the people who’s been hammering the “woke right” term since it emerged, avowed ‘anti communist’ and one of the original people to start talking about ‘woke’, on the left side of the equation, Dr. James Lindsey.
2. When Dissent Becomes Demonization
Revisiting the original conversation that cause so much uproar, Daryl Cooper appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to sketch a more nuanced history of Churchill, Jonestown—and Europe’s post-war discontents. Almost instantly, the label “Nazi apologist!” rained down not because his facts were wrong, but because the establishment couldn’t bear the mirror he held up.
No one debated his evidence. They simply shouted him down—proof positive that the “woke right” isn’t a handful of cranky hosts, but the very machinery of crowd-control refusing to face inconvenient truths.
3. The Math of Mind-Control
Enter James Lindsay—PhD combinatorics, Asperger’s categorizer extraordinaire—mapping out every faction, every intersection of grievance, with surgical precision. His technique is brilliant: atomize each movement, tag its tropes, reveal the pattern. Yet even his polished taxonomy can’t uproot the deeper problem: a collective ego so terrified of self-examination that it will sacrifice freedom for the illusion of safety.
This is the Beast at work—corporations and institutions legally bound to maximize profit (or power) become pure psychopathy in action. They spin narratives, cancel critics, then claim moral high ground. Watch them weaponize “common sense” into “common censorship.”
4. A Call to the Brave Few
I’m not here to judge Carlson or Cooper or Lindsay—these are vital messengers in a time of mass complacency. I’m sounding the alarm for us, the dissidents, who know that truth can’t survive in a crowd that worships deceit. If you’ll step outside your comfort-box, if you’ll embrace the discomfort of honest discourse, we may yet slay this Beast—one metaphor, one chart, one un-cancelable conversation at a time.
Because the only alternative is the crowd’s ruin: a pendulum swinging from socialist purges to nationalist zealotry, with our inalienable rights caught in the crossfire.
Homework: lean into the dissidents’ worst-case scenarios, not because they’re always right, but because they force us to reckon with what we’d rather ignore. Only then can we rebuild a level playing field—rooted in humility, not hubris—and return power to the people, rather than to the gods of profit, prowess, or political purity.
“He who wrestles with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster… and if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Stay vigilant. Stay curious. And above all, stay truthful.