Conspiratorial thinking is also a postmodern trap

Have you noticed that it's always you who is the victim? Sounds eerily similar to critical theory which is postmodern nonsense.

Do you know what critical theory is?

Critical theory is an approach, developed in the 80s, that views society primarily through the lens of power struggles between different groups, arguing that institutions and systems are designed to maintain inequality and oppression.

It’s postmodern junk.

For example,

• Whites invented racism and, therefore, Blacks can’t be racist;

• Blacks are oppressed by systemic and institutionalised racism;

• women are oppressed by patriarchal structures; and

• men can become women because gender is systemic oppression.

Any sane person will reject all of that for the woke garbage that it is.

Whites did not invent racism. For example, the Zanj Rebellion (869-883 AD) in, what is now Iraq, provides clear evidence that racism predates European colonialism. Arab rulers systematically enslaved Black Africans, whom they called ‘Zanj’ and Arab writers described them using words that might get my Substack account suspended.

Blacks are not oppressed. I live in South Africa. We have a Black president and deputy president; the majority of the government is Black, including the police force and judicial system, and the Black middle class is larger than the White middle class. In what universe is it true that Blacks are oppressed?

Similarly, women are not oppressed. How is this claim even remotely accurate? Whilst there might be a few remote places where women aren’t having a good time, I see no evidence of patriarchal oppression near me. Rather, I would argue that dismantling patriarchal structures has led many societies to degenerate into moral chaos. Explain to me how OnlyFans girls, who are raking in millions of dollars for showing how “liberated” and "empowered” they are, are oppressed.

She only earns $20 million per month. Shame. Must be terrible being so oppressed.

Feminists like to argue that women are oppressed, and that’s because feminism is about making women behave and appear like men, as author Carrie Gress argued on my podcast. (I mean, why do lesbians cut their hair into green mohawks, cover their fat bodies in tattoos and wear oversized cargo pants covering their Converse sneakers?)

Rachel Wilson’s conversation with me is also worth a listen; she published an incredible book on the evil history of “women’s liberation” and how men drove it for the purpose of increasing the labour force (after the creation of the Fed) and breaking apart the family unit.

Women were liberated before women were liberated.

So, in a way, many women are indeed oppressed, but by their own doing, while we men have to continue hearing how toxic we are.

I’m not going to bother with the “men can become women” thing because it’s so stupid and doesn’t deserve anything more than a cartoon I drew:

Where am I going with this?

I am demonstrating that the victimhood narrative, which is conspiratorial by nature, is designed to voluntarily enslave otherwise intelligent minds through perpetual power struggles.

These power struggles cannot end, which is by design.

They are constantly intersected and subdivided to ensure their continuation; when it’s shown that women aren’t oppressed, a new category of women’s oppression is invented to maintain the narrative.

To butcher Queen: the struggle must go on.

Here’s where those on “my side” will get triggered.

The battle against the globalists is no different.

Call them elites, technocrats, Luciferians, the New World Order, Zionists, or simply ‘them’—the principle remains the same.

We want to feel like we matter and have a voice.

We want to be part of a ‘cause’ because it brings meaning to our otherwise mundane lives.

We want to have ‘them’ as the enemy so that we can ‘fight them’.

And, not unlike feminists and critical theorists, conspiracy theorists (or sceptics, or ‘freedom fighters’, or whatever descriptor is preferred) fall into the same trap of perpetual victimhood.

There will never be a time when we have won.

There can’t be.

Because what happens after that?

I anticipate knee-jerk reactions for omitting certain placeholders—like ‘we win when God defeats Satan’. Whilst this might be true for Christians, it’s functionally no different from the communist utopia of ‘we win when all people are equal’.

Both religious and secular ideologies can function as perpetual struggle narratives, with victory always deferred to an indefinite future.

We can never win under those conditions.

Let me be clear

I’m not saying a technocratic new world order isn’t rolling out—it clearly is—but we must acknowledge wins along the way.

We must accept and celebrate when we win battles.

We must leave behind what’s been defeated and stop desiring constant victimhood.

We must stop being defeatist, looking for reasons to create repetitive and pointless battles.

We must act like winners when we are winners.

And it starts with you, as an individual.

Always.

I have won multiple battles over the years.

Have you?

Just because everyone and everything might be out to get you doesn’t mean they will.