For the last year or so, I’ve been trying to figure out what Woke is.
The word has been thumped around like a volley ball. After being served by the LEFT team, the ball crosses the net and the RIGHT team bops it around and then whops it back over the net where LEFTies get their chance to renew their served-up volley of political correctness. After a moment of passing the buck, er excuse me, passing the ball back over to the Righties and this exchange goes on for a while until somebody drops the ball and then it all starts again.
But of course, that is not what Woke is. Now I find out that it’s more like a political football in which whichever team has the ball carries it as far as he can toward the Goal, until the ball-carrier gets taken down. I also noticed that when the game is played in the rain, everybody gets muddy, with the mud getting slung around, far-flung mud.
But, hey, all that sport-allegory aside, I have finally learned what Woke really is. Mr. N. S. Lyons has identified it. Wokeism is a political device for the managerial elite (State, Corporate and Academic) to advance their core tenets of societal control: scientism, utopianism, meliorism, liberationism, hedonism, cosmopolitanism, dematerialism and its accompanying safetyism, with the goal being to “instantiate a new victimizological consciousness” and thereby reconstruct human nature to facilitate and advance the objectives of the therapeutic state.
If you’re wondering what the “therapeutic state” is, you can read Mr. Lyons’ explanation.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence?
But I can provide a helpful image for you: George Orwell it called “Big Brother.”
I’m oversimplifying here, but that’s what you have to do in the age of twitter or X or whatever it is that trivializes everything that happens on the planet and converts it into God-only-knows-what instead of what used to be civilized debate.
But now, meanwhile back at the ranch we Americans have a situation.
We don’t like socialism and/or communism. So we’re not generally BigBrother-friendly. But Big Brother, whether you like him or not, is a force to be reckoned with, even here in America, in this here 21st-century.
Here’s an example: China. China had a Communist (Big Brother) system that they had set up in 1949. But in the mid-1960’s, China had a problem. The founder, Mao, didn’t like the way things had turned out, so he started a Cultural Revolution, which would try to force the people back to his original plan, because after all he was, you know, Big Brother. So to speak.
Anyway, Mr. Lyons explains Mao’s great second (the Cultural) effort this way:
“. . . like (the dialectical Marxist philosopher, Max) Hegel, Mao thought the Revolution must never end because all progress (towards New Socialist Man and communism, but mainly towards more power) was the product of the transformation produced by struggle between opposing forces in society. If there was no struggle, there could be no progress, as all progress was produced through through the same process: unity -> dusunity -> unity.”
Now here in America, we don’t subscribe to Mao’s doctrine of communism and his belated Cultural revolution to re-instate his original plan.
Even so, in America we find that sh*t happens. In our efforts to sustain a democratic republic, we do get a little off course sometimes. We had a pretty good thing going until the 21-century rolled around and we started screwing up.
Here in America, we have two great freedoms: political liberty and economic liberty. The lefty Libs put all their stock in political liberty, while the righty neo-Cons put their stock in commercial liberty.
These two got along just fine for most of our history. But then, one fella came along who had made it big (and I mean really big!) in the economic ( i.e. capitalist) side of Americana. He made it so big that he got himself elected president in 2016.
But four years later, the sh*t hit the fan when We the People showed him the Exit from the White House. And the problem was: he wouldn’t take his ball and go home. Instead, kinda like Mao, he tried to start a maga Revolution.
He had gotten all hot and bothered by the Woke delusion that the Dems had promulgated and so he mustered all his proud, oathy, 3% thugs to steal the 2020 election. His main excuse was (get this!): Uncle Joe (Big Brother and the DeepState) had stolen the election!
Who’da thunk it?! a BigBrother-hating mega-maga tried to do a Lenin/Mao heist job on the U.S Capitol and steal the .gov away from US!
What a whack job! You can’t make this stuff up.
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