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Gnosticism, Modern and Postmodern

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James Lindsay: I think that the woke movement is all actually esoteric religion. Gnosticism and her metacism both rely on this concept of gnosis, which is a kind of specialized secret knowledge. He says it's one of these religions that informs Marxism extremely clearly to the point where Marxism kind of goes from being in black and white to color.

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