Note: Somewhat related to the post today is a post behind the green door about the classic movie Ben-Hur. It is an amazing film to watch in the current context, especially when you think about the audience of the time.
Imagine you were a peasant in the early medieval times and one day you looked up from your toils to see some men on the road wearing funny outfits. You see that they must be of means as they are not covered in muck and they have men of arms guarding them, but they are strange and different. They are headed in the direction of the lord’s home. You assume they are nobles of some sort. You are a peasant, so you go back to toiling away and think no more of it.
Days later, the lord’s men come to round up you and your neighbors. Everyone is herded down to the river. The lord is there and to your surprise the men you saw the other day are there as well. The lord announces that everyone is now something called a Christian and worshipping the old gods will no longer be allowed. Along with the other peasants, you are walked out into the river where you get dunked while the strangers say something in an alien language.
This is not exactly how Europe was Christianized, but it is not far off. Men from the Church would cut deals with the local rulers. The nobles would get financial help from the Church, maybe even promises of military support. In exchange the nobleman would become a Christian and his people would also become Christians. Early on, the Church took the “whatever means necessary” to win over converts. Many conversions were sincere of course, but many were out of convenience.
We don’t know if the old religions swept Europe the same way. It is possible they followed agriculture as it swept Europe. Regardless, the same paradox of conversion must have existed. There is a point at which they went from some older form of belief to the more personal and concrete belief of polytheism. Like the paradox of the heap, there is some point at which a society stops being defined by one set of beliefs and is defined by a new set of beliefs. We are in such a phase now.
If you are old enough to remember the Cold War, then you are like the medieval peasant at the beginning. All of a sudden, the people in charge now believe weird new things for no obvious reason. You try to assign the usual reasons for what you see, things like power and money, but they make less sense over time. After all, the people in charge have all of the power and money. What is in it for billionaires like George Soros who underwrite this strange new faith?
One reason for what is happening is something called isomorphism. This post in City Journal explains why social pressure is causing the people at the top to conform to this bizarre new faith informally called Wokism. Humans are social animals with a strong instinct to conform. In a world full of uncertainty, both personally and collectively, Wokism offers structure and a form of shelter. The underlying logic of this new religion is not as important as the structure it promises.
The problem with that post is it does not address the origins of this strange new religion and why it got started in the first place. It also fails to grasp that Wokism is a religion, rather than a social fad. It is assumed that religions require a well-defined anthropomorphic deity or deities, but this is a cultural bias. The evidence suggests that these well-defined gods were a product of settlement. When man was in the hunter-gatherer stage, nature was his god.
When viewed as a religion, things make a bit more sense. Religion first and foremost explains the natural world. For ruling-class people their environment is now the culture that has evolved in urban areas. They have little interaction with nature, other than to see it from their window. The natural environment of most people, especially those embracing this new religion of Wokism, is the highly urbanized and socially constructed world of the Cloud People, like universities.
It is not surprising that this new religion would be born on campus. They have been the monasteries of America since the beginning. The Puritans founded Harvard soon after they arrived for the purpose of training preachers. The beliefs of the ruling class of America have always been incubated and maintained on the college campus, so it is no surprise that this new faith was hatched there. The newly minted faithful then went forth to convert the masses.
It is also no surprise that the corporation have taken the lead in conversion. One of the few things the old radicals in the last century got right was the relationship between corporate America and the culture. Corporatism has always been the organizing principle of the American empire. Corporations sell the culture through advertising, entertainment and consumer goods. Now they are selling the religion and forcing the conversion of the people.
This is why the old liberals are baffled by it all. The New Left is in bed with corporate America in a way that would have shamed the Right not long ago. The old school lefties, trapped in the old ideology, are unable to grasp what is happening, because they are operating from the old framing. Similarly, conservatives are unwitting dupes in the process of conversion because they were conditioned to defend corporations from the “socialists and communists” on the Left.
Getting back to the primary role of religion, this new faith is catching on with the rulers because it explains what they are seeing in their natural world. First, they see the browning of the West. Even though they could put an end to it tomorrow and even reverse the trend, that requires things of them they no longer possess, so the new religion makes it seem like a naturally occurring thing. The arc of history is toward a multicultural universe free of white supremacy.
Wokism also explains why people are not the same, despite the unshakable belief that all men are created equal. The disparate outcomes must be the result of the social structures of society. The new religion not only explains the conflict between reality and their beliefs, but it also gives them a purpose. Overturning the white power structure to liberate the people from white supremacy is the ritual and practice of the faith. Wokism tells them the universe cares about them and has a plan for them.
This is why it is delusional to think this stuff is just a fad and will fade without having to confront it in the culture war. That is the old libertarian impulse to cower on the sidelines while pretending to be above it all. The new religion may be at odds with reality, but reason has never played the defining role in the ways of men. The woke can remain unreasonable longer than the reasonable can remain smug. Our peasant from before learned that when he was eventually forced to abandon his gods.
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Since “religion” carries the connotation of anthropomorphic deities, I sometimes use the term “fetishism.” It sure explains Covid. If the whole world is magical (spirit-infused, whatever term you want to use) then everything that happens to you, and everything that doesn’t happen to you, comes down to juju.
You’re walking through the forest. You come across a tiger. The tiger looks at you, but doesn’t pounce. Why? Well, five minutes ago, you stopped to pick up an unusual rock. The rock must have juju; it’s your anti-tiger rock; if you don’t want to be eaten by a tiger, you’d best keep your rock in a special place, and offer sacrifice to it, lest its juju depart and you get eaten.
So with Covid. If you didn’t get it, it’s not because it’s not all that contagious; it’s that your magic mask has juju. If you got it and recovered, it’s because you kept your TV tuned to MSNBC; the juju in your TV set fought off the ‘vid. But someone else you know got Covid and got very sick, and even died? Oh, well, just last week she let an unmasked person within 10 feet of her; that canceled out her mask’s juju. Or, in flipping the channel to MSNBC, she accidentally lingered a second on Tucker Carlson’s show. Bad juju, boss!!
This is called Following The Science ™. We would all do well to review the work of Lucien Levy-Bruhl.
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I’m with you on this. It’s not quite a religion. It’s something similar but not quite. I guess it’s something more like witchcraft or hocus pocus. Or what you propose. And not long ago certain women were all into crystals. And now covidianism. So maybe if we get a big boiling pot of white man’s urine and drop in some crystals and a dash of the delta variant and some Pfizer mercurial globules from its vials and give it some good stirs we will get a magical amulet rising to the top in the likeness of George Floyd. And they can sell them on Etsy.
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the covid panic provided a lot of isolated alienated people with an organizing principle, and relief from their personal circumstance. they became part of, and were subsumed, by a mass movement. hmm, where have i read about that before? :). see link i posted elsewhere for this post, with a link to kuntsler (on mass psychosis).
zman, i think you missed a good opportunity to compare this new religion, with older religions; i.e. maybe they are all like this new creed.
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So very true
And all this while, unbeknownst to us, were these people walking around with a hole in their hearts hungry for something to give their life meaning
I guess the signs were always there. We just didn’t take note.
when you used the word “fetish” it got me thinking that maybe there is a sexual component to all this madness? like with serial killers…
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I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. Bossing people around is the only thing that gives Karen the poony tingles. Those awful patriarchal neanderthals back in the 70s had it right: All your average Feminist (= Karen) needs is a deep dicking, and all her problems will be solved. Alas…
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Yeah but then you’re stuck with them and have to buy them breakfast
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Go look up Victorian era cures for hysterical women.
Those guys knew the score.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article appearing this morning suggesting that Wokism was finished because Joe Citizen was tired of it. The comments were having none of it. VDH is pretty dense for someone who thinks he knows so much.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/08/woke-got-what-it-wanted-and-then-what/
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I don’t get people like him. I remember when there were plenty of “old” men who could easily relate to changing times and to younger people and make sense of it. Not everyone was an old get off my lawn crank. What is so hard of even entertaining a thesis or idea like the one Z presents here? He can’t get his mind around it? And yet he’s an historian? I don’t get it.
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A weird fear of being wrong seems to grip some men once they hit their middle years. By old age they are “get off my lawn” cranks. I don’t get it, but I’m in a business where being wrong is a daily occurrence. Maybe I’m just conditioned to think being wrong is the path forward.
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it’s like a sports team sitting on a lead. hansen has built up a certain amount of status and success, and he is protecting that (by not writing anything new).
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Live and learn
Who ever said it stops when you hit a certain age ?
Yeah I don’t get it. Change makes life exciting. I suppose that’s what really upsets the likes of VDH. He wants tranquility and sameness at this time of his life.
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maybe he is all used up and just phoning it in. his only child died of some mystery illness a few years ago, and i am guessing he is just hanging around waiting to die.
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I read the piece and frankly, it was simply weak cheese. A rehashing of history with the consequences.
And he’s right in saying “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”.
The left has. Whether it is the end of Wokism only time will tell.
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He, like many conservatives, is wishing for reality to impose itself on the loons and self-correct society. What they fail to appreciate is that the woke have created their own reality by leveraging existing systems to work for their own behalf. As long as the populace has bread, the circus will go on.
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Like many of these guys, he has not taken a second to learn about this new religion. It is easier to dismiss it and safer, of course.
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And he’s still into the blank slate, paint job theory of race.
“Not all Mexicans are bad”, as he describes the way his neighborhood has devolved into a favela.
You’re right Z, he’s obtuse that way.
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He doesn’t want to die knowing the country he loved is destroyed, the next generation will be conditioned to think people like him were evil, and there will be no triumph, but just a slow slumping into the trash bin of everything he lived for.
There were probably old Indians back in the day who said the white man will wear himself out and the Iroquois will rise again.
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ghost dancers are still with us.
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If it’s borne of the corporations, it dies with the corporations
I.e. a severe economic downturn wipes wokism off the face of the earth
I would think
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When one wakes each day to the prospect of not eating, it’s amazing how all unnecessary cultural claptrap is shed. Wokism, coming soon to a favela near you.
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Jeff Bezos just gave $100 million to the “Obama Foundation” to be used to pay for Barak’s Presidential Pyramid/Library.
The Amazon official most tied to the donation is Jay Carney, who worked in high profile positions in both the Biden and Obama offices.
Amazon is on the hot seat for multiple issues: anti-competitive practices in their media acquisitions and very hard-corps anti-union organizing tactics (during record profits as their competition was destroyed by Covid). This, while we’re told that Biden is the “most friendly labor President in living memory”.
Rich men and their business partners paying off politicians to get favors is as old as civilization itself. Biden, or Dr. Jill Biden, are unquestionably lining up billionaires for their legacy library in the not too distant future.
Regulatory capture in this country is complete and total, and they’re not even hiding it anymore.
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Words out of my mouth, Falcone.
Wokeism rhymes with religion but it’s not a Religion. Spirtual to be sure. The Wokes have just trapped us all in the Truman Show.
Wait until the oil runs out. The world religions will remain in some form. Wokeism will not.
kuntsler has a very good post on mass psychosis (which is what i think is really going on): https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-brief-history-of-epic-mass-madness/
here is another link, discussing the cognitive limits of low IQ people.
put them both together and you have the answer for what is going on world wide.
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https://twitter.com/LaocoonofTroy/status/1410205071397294085
oops, forgot this.
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I remember the first time I read how a large percentage of people had no “inner dialogue”. As someone whose “inner dialogue” will never shut up, it was my first red-pill of the vast genetic psychological differences in people. It’s not even they’re inferior, as most people posting here are probably the real genetic mutants, but the thought process different it’s pointless to try a form of argumentation that only works with a small portion of the population.
It’s why sperging out on facts and reason is pointless for the majority of the population and it’s far more effective to change their external stimuli to point them towards different behavior.
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agree. the cloud people aren’t really around the low IQ people, so are unfamiliar with their limitations.
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I’ve also heard the study that examined how many people have an inner dialogue was extremely flawed. That’s the thing with any social science research you come across. It’s just all so shoddy and bad you can’t trust anything that’s asserted.
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They said the same thing about Christians I’m sure. They were suffering from this or that, crazy, whatever the convention was at the time to express or try to understand the phenomena of spiritual conquest. Today our conventions is “psychology”
I’d agree with Z here, just because you can define it as a form of madness or whatever doesn’t change its power or negate it.
But yes it will be funny seeing this spread through campus with the professors of psychology holding up their textbooks to ward off the evil spirits like holding up a cross to Dracula.
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Another parallel is the foot soldiers of the spread of Christianity were the monks, the most aggressive true believers in terms of their sacrifices for the regime. In the outskirt monasteries they sacrificed a family and home for a small cell where they labored most of the day for spoils that went to the collective. The ‘silent majority’ has never been the ones to direct the flow of history, but the most radical of the sects.
Now, the most aggressive true believers making the largest sacrifices are the trannies who cut their dicks off for the cause, white parents who make their children eunuchs either psychologically or physically, and drugged-up weirdos who destroy property because ‘White Supremacy’, all to support a rich elite that lives separated from the rabble.
At least the more powerful people in the Church hierarchy actually had to try to keep the pretense of personal sacrifice, and even the corrupt ones built beautiful cathedrals and administered charity works that any peasant could appreciate. The new religion of equality is destructive for the sake of bringing all forms down to the lowest common denominator, which is a world that can not have cathedrals, paintings, or other artifacts that point to transcendence.
In Heaven there is hierarchy, in Hell everyone is equal, and our rulers know which place they believe in more.
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Any time I hear the word “equal”, I reach for my revolver…
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“Two plus two equa…” BANG!! 🙂
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is that a Moby reference? 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nt5by-TsUw&ab_channel=Moby
“God made men. Colonel Colt made them equal.” — old saying
“Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!” — Rooster Cogburn
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Or perhaps a ‘modern classic’–
Tombstone;
Wyatt Earp- “Go ahead, skin it! Skin that Smokewagon and see what happens.”
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But Christianity had a timeless element to it and took centuries to percolate and come into being.
Wokism is a cheap knockoff of pre-existing concepts, and concepts formulated by dead white men.
There would be no wokism without the intellectual foundations of western man. Such as equality.
So I guess Christianity had to borrow or ride on paganism and some of the traditions to sail through Europe and be accepted. Maybe wokism is now riding on Christianity and its vestigial concepts and faith through the Acela corridor and Silicon Valley.
I’m not one to say that wokism is going to disappear. If it has staying power then so be it. That just means my relationship with my fellow man becomes even more tenuous and I may disappear into the woods to get away from this shit.
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Wokism has very deep roots. It borrows heavily from aspects of Christianity like the concept of a fallen world. It is a form of Gnosticism. Instead of the world having been created by the demiurge, it is the product of white people for the benefit of white people. The arc of history leads to a remote existence beyond this existence. I will be diving into this in the show tomorrow.
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One of the central tenets of the Christian narrative is that there’s a sense in which all people are seen as being equal: they’re all “God’s children”, “made in His image”, individually known and loved by the God who created them.
There’s also a sense in which every person is considered to be uniquely valuable, simply on the basis of the belief that God has deliberately chosen to create them; and “God doesn’t make junk”.
In the Christian narrative, no matter what their earthly circumstances, everyone has an equal chance of getting to Heaven; the serf is on equal footing with the lord of the manor. In fact, the serf may have a better chance: “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
It’s not hard to see how the presumed equality and inherent value attributed to people by the Christian narrative, could easily morph into the “anti-racist” egalitarianism embraced by the woke; in which no one is any better than anyone else, and you’re a terrible person if you presume otherwise.
In the woke narrative, all differences in human station and condition are seen as the result of a systemically-racist society, in which some people— “people of color”, women, gays and trannies— are being kept out of Equity Heaven by privileged Whites. In a fully-woke society where “social justice” reigned, everyone would live in the Heaven of perfect equality of outcome. And until then, the oppressed occupy a special place: “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a privileged White person to renounce their privilege and become Woke”.
The problem with all that, of course, is that just isn’t the way the world is.
And just as the doctrines of the Catholic Church drove it to oppose science, in a similar fashion, the doctrines of the Church of Wokeness put it at odds with what science is revealing about human beings.
In contrast to the myriad religious narratives by which— in the absence of facts— primitive man sought to explain the world around him; evolutionary science— evolutionary-genetics, -biology, -psychology— has given us a factually-supported understanding of who we are as humans, and how we came to be the way we are.
The human biodiversity and marked group racial differences which evolutionary theory reveals to be the case, stands in opposition to the equality imagined by both the Christian narrative and it’s successor, the Woke narrative.
That, it seems to me, may be the reef on which Wokeness finally shipwrecks: the findings of science regarding inherent group racial differences.
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“In the Christian narrative, no matter what their earthly circumstances, everyone has an equal chance of getting to Heaven; the serf is on equal footing with the lord of the manor.”
Maybe, but that equal chance isn’t necessarily large, or at least few will take the opportunity offered them:
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.” — Matthew 7:13
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Vizzini,
Right. And then there’s this, which I’ve come to think of as the Joel Osteen verses:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
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Christianity was completely formed right from its inception. As Chesterton says in The Everlasting Man: she leapt into existence like Athena from the head of Zeus, fully armed and ready for war.
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Not really: early Christianity was characterized by a variety of mutually-contradictory beliefs about who Jesus was: Jesus was fully God from the beginning, Jesus was a human who became God, Jesus was both God and human; Jesus was a human who died a physical death on the cross, Jesus was a spirit who only appeared to suffer physically; people must be a member of the Church to be saved, people can be saved outside the Church— all these were beliefs held by early Christians.
The beliefs which characterize Christianity today are those which prevailed in these doctrinal disputes; which were also political disputes between various groups seeking power.
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I agree. Also, wokeism is grounded in material political concerns and envious overthrow of the existing order, while Christianity took an existing corrupt order and promoted an unselfish alternative. The woke behave more like the Pharisees and Sadducees, especially in their tortured legalisms, sophistic reasoning, and focus on manipulative control and linguistic mayhem. The temptations of biogenetic engineering, freedom from physical want, and massively scalable social engineering have created a society-wide inversion of the normal moral categories and resulted in rule by thousands of bitter Gollums. As Christianity recedes (if it doesn’t have a resurgence) a new approach to old problems will rise in its wake, trying yet again to address the fallen nature of man.
There is no question, however, that this pseudo-faith has a unique ontological framework and worldview. Its incoherence is propped up by the Christian-infused, rule-governed behavior of every-day people. Empty suit authorities can declare males and females to be no different and that 2 plus 2 equals 5 for as long as ordinary people are willing to play along, ignoring the absurdities in their ordinary life but mouthing the political cant as demanded. But if a sufficient number of people are made excessively ‘uncomfortable’ (as these torturers of language are so fond of saying), all bets are off.
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The fact that we see so many woke Christians, would seem to indicate that there’s little difference between them; or at least, that they’re mutually compatible.
And I could certainly make the case that your description of the language of the Pharisees and Saducees— “tortured legalisms, sophistic reasoning, and focus on manipulative control and linguistic mayhem”— can also be seen as accurately describing Christian beliefs.
The “three Gods in one Person” doctrine of the Trinity, the notion that Jesus was at the same time ‘fully human and fully divine’, the idea that believing in Jesus wipes away your sins, makes you right with God, and assures you of a place in heaven, the miracle stories that no Christian can replicate, despite Jesus’s promise to his disciples that “You’ll do greater things than these”, the fact that so many self-identified Christians are not in fact filled with the spirit of love— the case can be made that Christian beliefs too are tortured and sophistic in the “reasoning” offered to back them up, and manipulative in their application.
It may feel good to espouse Christian beliefs, but there’s little or no evidence backing them up.
Both wokeness and Christianity contravene the findings of science. Christianity asks one to believe things which are not only unbelievable— never seen before or since, impossible, according to what science tells us— they fail the test of proportionality: that the more unlikely the claim, the stronger the supporting evidence must be in order to validate it.
So while I agree with your description of wokeness as having inverted normal moral categories, I’d say something similar regarding Christianity: it has inverted the normal categories of reason: requiring the believer to relinquish common sense and science, and believe things for which no sufficient evidence exists.
So in that way it’s exactly like wokeness. Which is why so many Christians find it easy to be both.
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Well, most trannies don’t have the balls to cut their dicks off.
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What I want to know is what is the percentage of contrarians in any civilization. There’s always a percentage of people that just will not go along and perhaps some were witches in the past or malcontinence hermits in the hills and probably the martyrs and the saints but that’s who is sustaining our side now. When I was very little I knew I was rebelling against something but I didn’t know what, I literally used to call myself a rebel without a cause just for a joke’s sake because it was everything. No one could ever tell me what to do. I have always bucked everything and as I got older I just realized that’s who I am I’m a contrarian and I am very fortunate now to be my own boss because it’s just a nightmare otherwise but I think that’s who all of us are. The real hardcore dissident people do not want to get along. So what do you think the percentage of population contrarians is? I think that’s the number we’re really working with. You know if it’s 10% that’s good. You can do a lot with 10%.
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It’s not that we won’t “go along.” It’s that we won’t go along with things that are so obviously stupid and self-destructive.
We “contrarians” are willing to note that the emperor has no clothes or, in the case of wokism, that the person with a schlong isn’t a woman, that diversity isn’t our strength, and that someone fresh off a boat from Haiti isn’t just as American as you and me.
It’s heresy to note these things, but we do it anyway. If society were normal and in line with our nature, plenty of us “nonconformists” would happily conform.
The real question, I think, isn’t how many of us are contrarians, but rather how many of us are willing to buck self-destructive trends.
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Wokeism may be a religion but it is not going to be an enduring one. As religions come it is over on the suicide cult side of the spectrum because it grossly violates not only human nature but the fundamental principles of reproduction. Not that it is any comfort to us that this thing won’t last because it may well take us down with it in its race to go extinct in the most insane way fevered human minds can devise.
For all we know there may have be many cultures and religions springing up based on the idea that deranged women should be in charge. But none of them survived long enough to be discovered by anthropologists. Darwin doesn’t take vacations.
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Darwin? 19th century science are we?!
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Beats 21st century ‘decolonized’ ‘science’ by a mile
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Yes! Wings where there were no wings before! And why? Father Time, dont cha know!
Talk about a religion. If we are going to call godless ideas religion, lets start with dumb evolution. Z has been in her grips his whole career!
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That people can reason as poorly as you and still, evidently, have reached this genetic cycle, makes even me doubt Darwin. And I’m a hard-core evolutionist. Have a sweet day 🙂
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Conversations about evolution are fundamentally religious conversations and because of that they tend to be unproductive, because people are intensely invested in their positions.
There are a lot very good arguments for intelligent design, which evolutionists stumble over themselves to misrepresent, and there are a lot of good arguments for evolution that creationists and ID’ers are equally eager to misrepresent. Some aspects of the evolutionary process are patently obviously true. We can see them in our genetic structures.
My take, and I don’t expect it to convince anyone, is that God designed a rational, understandable, internally consistent system. This was one of the reasons that science flourished under Christianity* — Christianity believed in a consistent, rational world that was subject to discovery and understanding, rather than the world being a place of incomprehensible, capricious, arbitrary forces.
But, some stages of the life process are effectively impossible to accomplish via time and random chance (See Dr. James Tour (DrJamesTour) on YouTube).
God stepped in at various points and directed natural processes. He didn’t do this via “magic” or “the supernatural” — He did it via scientific and natural processes that are beyond our current understanding. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
*Don’t be fooled by all that Galileo nonsense. Churches were one of the biggest underwriters of scientists at the time and it was fellow scientists who got Galileo in trouble with the church for questioning their ideas. Not all that different from climate change consensus today.
So, sometimes in comments, you’ll see me making evolutionary arguments, and sometimes you’ll see me arguing from the creation and the intent of God and I don’t see any contradiction.
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Yes, something that comes from nothing. And I’m the poor reasoner!
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well, given there were no “wings” when the Earth was formed, and there are now “wings”…
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Yeah but Christianity violated nature too. Paganism did not because it was an outcropping of nature and the natural world. Christianity instead grafted unnatural concepts onto man and nature.
Such as stigmatizing sex of all things. And saying women are the root of evil. And telling men they couldn’t marry if they wanted to be leaders of the faith. Or that there must only be one god. Etc etc.
These ideas flew in the face if nature and still do. Yes women are shit when it comes to politics but they are not the cause of man’s downfall. No women means no men. The desert tribes and their hatred of women continues to this day. That’s not natural.
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No, Christianity places women’s sex lives under the control of men, the dreaded patriachy. We could haggle over the game theoretical reasons why but empirically this seems to be a pre-condition for the development of advanced civilizations. Loose sexual mores, bonobo style, in humans are associated with societies that never got off the ground. Or are gathering speed crashing towards it again, ie decadence.
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Yeah but bad women are a reflection of bad men
Men are built to be the leaders
A society full of sluts and so forth is a society ruled by men who have abdicated their responsibility
It violates fallen nature, yes!
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you are describing specifics of the catholic church, not christianity. the latter of which by the by has always had a ton of homoness to it. starting with making a baby without having sex with a woman.
and women being considered dangerous has been around since, well, that damn apple.
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Of course they’re dangerous, but so are we
They don’t have the physical tools to be dangerous so they use their cunning and ability to turn man against another man
In fact I’d posit that as weaker men become or behave or act the more evil women become or appear. Men have their strength to keep the battle of the sexes balanced. Not advocating for slapping them around but….
We’d all be fools to say that men not being allowed to at least use the threat of force is much of what ails our society. Just simple yelling or screaming them like a lion shuts them the hell up. It’s not a polite society, but it’s the way life made us for better or worse.
The alternative for men, the one tool we are still allowed to employ, is to cheat on them to keep them in line. And that comes with its own set of problems. But that’s life, a bunch if never ending problems.
As James Burnham put it over half a century ago, “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide”. If the leftism he knew back in 1964 was like a slow suicide by starvation, Wokism has the rope around its neck and is about to jump off the chair, as the most recent “War with Russia, NOW!” fixation illustrates. To those people who say “Don’t these idiots know that a war with another peer nuclear power would be suicide?!?” the answer is, yeah, they know – that’s the point. Such a war would destroy the evil Russian (“That’s for Great-Grandpa, you Cossacks!”) destroy the evil United States (“Remember Emmet Till!”), and end their own miserable meaningless lives in one great blast of glory. There’s no stopping them – the question is, how do we keep them from taking us with them? An answer is beginning to form, but a lot of people are not going to like it…
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James Burnham would probably not believe his lying eyes if he saw where things are today. Prescient man.
New religions take hold when the old religions are seen as tired, old, and useless.
Mainstream Christianity is a spent force, in league with Globohomo.
Civic Nationalism is a dead end.
The Republican Party and establishment conservatism is a leashed dog.
So what happens to normal people seeking to replace their dead gods? Lefty has their replacement forming.
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No one ever asks if something is true. No, they ask, “does it work”?
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aren’t those two concepts somewhat related?
That’s a great point. There is a void needing to be filled and the woke people are busy at filling it.
Until something better comes along. At least they’re trying, give them that. They are not sitting around waiting to be dazzled by something better.
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Wokeism isn’t a religion, it’s a cultural phenomenon. A religion implies a number of things that wokeism doesn’t feature, a clergy, a foundational mythology, a complicated system of ethics, etc. This isn’t to say that wokeism couldn’t eventually become a religion, or at least an important part of one. Since culture changes continually, all of its features do as well. It’s also important that the legal system follows culture, it doesn’t determine it.
Fifty years ago it would have been silly to believe that two men could be legally married even though thousands of gay couples shared their domiciles. Now their relationship is legally enshrined and so accepted that an open homosexual can run and win public office.
Food taboos in modern America are just as irrational as the foreign examples that are remarked upon. Why should anyone care if someone else eats a dog or a horse as long as that dog or horse isn’t their own? Why would one care if the neighbor down the lane keeps and fights cocks when that’s the natural disposition of chickens and in other circumstances they are hardly treated as pets? Only a short time ago cockfighting was a popular sport in the US and of no concern to the legal establishment. There’s been a change in the culture.
Wokeism may continue to expand but there’s no guarantee that its direction will be predictable. In 1955 no one would have been able to predict that Ru Paul’s Drag Race would be a popular television show in the 21st century.
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do you really not see how “wokeism” very much *does* include all those features?
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Religions have to have a god or gods, dont they?
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Or spirits to be worshipped
I think that’s where we are with wokism. It’s more of a spiritual thing like voodoo or something primitive rather than having anything concrete and incarnate at its core.
But maybe some animal will become its sacred cow. One day Liz Warren is staring into the sky and sees a honeybee and has an epiphany.
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Buddhism does not have a god or gods at the center. The Buddha acknowledge that there may be gods, but they are trapped in the beginningness cycle and have no role in human affairs. Jainism is another example. Certain strains of Jewish mysticism place god out of reach of man. Gnosticism, of course, remove God from the material world.
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Good to see gainsayer man is back. You are wrong, as usual, but you remain certain, which is what counts.
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the strongest lemming drowns the furthest out. – KVH
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Like other aspects of a culture at a particular moment in time, wokeism will inevitably be embraced by a core group. It can only become significant if it’s also accepted by those who have “no skin in the game”. Just as those most opposed to chicken fights had, in fact, never seen one but still cared deeply about so-called animal rights, much of the wokeist congregation has had zero experience of what the wokeists are talking about. To them it’s an abstraction so it’s easy to join up. People that are more familiar with the reality of the situation are unlikely to go along with the wokeist agenda.
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Wokism completely adheres to any basic definition of a religion.
“A religion implies a number of things that wokeism doesn’t feature, a clergy, a foundational mythology, a complicated system of ethics, etc.”
Clergy – Your local DEI Political Officer (at work or school, situation dependent), but many SJWs can serve as deacons
Foundational Myth – The 1619 Project serves nicely here
Complicated System of Ethics – The hierarchy of race, sexual orientation, and other identity as needed. All you need to know is that Straight White Men are at the bottom of the pile
Religion is not a mechanism of prediction, but a practice and way of life.
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Zman: too clever for religion!
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First— One of your best posts, save this for the archives!
Second— Disregard every commenter who already started hand-waving this saying “no its not a religion, it is a…”. That erudite academia style mental circle jerk is why we lose –every single time–, these people simply do not grasp probably one of the only things I will give Vox Day full credit for. Dialectic vs Rhetoric. The former is dead as doornail. Nobody cares. In a world run by the ‘the feelz’ and absurdly high levels of feminization you must embrace rhetoric even if you yourself are aware its not entirely accurate. You can have high-minded debates about this, do it behind closed doors, if at all.
Third— This is a Memetic Rhetorical Killshot and should be deeply leaned into, why? One of the things these people despise most is religion of any sort. They are mid-wits that view themselves are far too sophisticated for such superstitions in the age of “I f-cking love science!1!”. By clearly stating they are religious fanatics you will send them apoplectic and -especially- if you have cogent narrative to back that up.
What you will end up doing in the moment is short-circuiting the NPCs programming. This is about equal to a computer crashing. They will shutdown and stop talking. But in the longer term if enough people are embracing the religious fanatic angle you may start to penetrate their impossibly thick skulls. The social shame of being a religious nut will be something they consider, –especially women–, because… feelz.
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It would be most accurate to say wokism is an informal religion (that is, it has no formality). Replication is predicated on formality, the following of a form, and so formless spirituality tends to fade away with time because it lacks formal structure. It’s like building a stick fort in the woods. It can’t be replicated because there are no principles for building, it’s simply ad hoc. Seances in the Victorian era were this way, much like the new age nonsense of the late 90s. Both are passe because they’re simply purposeless emotivism, something they have in common wokism. Basically, it’s a worship service for people who don’t want the discipline of regular attendance.
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They do have a formal theory of history. This is what lies behind their notion of progress. They also have a formal social theory and an established set of tools for interpreting both history but current social trends. There is a lot more behind this stuff than many realize. I did a series of shows on it a few months ago.
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Oh, wokeism is definitely a religion. Modernity has killed religion in the West, and nature abhors a vacuum.
There is no end to the purity spiraling; however, companies and billionaires (for now) can buy indulgences with huge donations to politicians and “though leaders”.
Individuals, alas, are hosed.
It was ever thus.
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“This is why it is delusional to think this stuff is just a fad and will fade without having to confront it in the culture war. ”
I wonder if anyone said the same thing about Spiritualism during the Victorian era. I’d be willing to bet that wokism is more faddish than enduring if for no other reason than it’s so emotional in it’s nature that it really can’t be rationalized. Because it can’t be rationalized (i e. made into a rational system of thought and action), it can’t endure for long. It just feels really as hoc.
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wokeism won’t endure because the people who subscribe to it are so thoroughly damaged and defective. the ones who just go along to get along, of course, don’t care whether covidism is “true” or not. the elite are cultural arsonists, burning everything they can get their grubby paws on. at least the nazis cared enough about art to steal the good stuff (and not burn it).
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“The New Left is in bed with corporate America in a way that would have shamed the Right not long ago. The old school lefties, trapped in the old ideology, are unable to grasp what is happening, because they are operating from the old framing. Similarly, conservatives are unwitting dupes in the process of conversion because they were conditioned to defend corporations from the “socialists and communists” on the Left.”
Exactly. This confusion stems from the end of the Cold War, which the West lost… in a big way.
Yes, the Soviet Union was bankrupted and collapsed, but by the time that happened the Marxists had already taken over the universities and, eventually, the bureaucracies of the West.
With the failure of the USSR it should have been obvious the West needed to clean house, fire 80% of its academics, close the universities for a year, and start over from scratch. Of course, that would have been impossible because the baby boomers still believed they saved the world in 1969 by putting flowers in their hair, thanks to the egging on of their university professors… and there’s nothing cowards love more than being told that they’re heroes (much like the mask-wearers of today).
Instead of getting a housecleaning, academia became even more powerful in the West. It slowly abandoned it’s allegiance to literal Marxism, pretending the previous 100 years of Marxist preachings never happened, and simply moved on to new religions, like global warming, the mother earth cult, and wokism.
With its complete dominance on campus, the new religions soon infected the business and science departments, too. Contrary to popular belief, business and science students are just as moronic as liberal arts students, and just as eager to be popular and to not make waves.
Thus, we ended up with a marriage of convenience between the corporate world – including all its bureaucracies and MBAs, and the post-Marxists liberal arts world – including its government bureaucracies and BAs. They came together in the new religions, and found themselves strangely united, along with the artists and the media. The post-Marxists soon discovered they didn’t care that the economic vision of their master didn’t come to pass; they had power, and that was good enough.
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and now the unis are busy killing themselves. enrollments are down 20% (i think i read that) and that trend is just going to accelerate.
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@ The Bobby:
Well said. Somehow the notion (I won’t call it an idea) gained currency and then dominance that everybody *deserved* a “college education.” Too much stupidity in those few words to get into here, but suffice it to way that education (the real thing) is simply NOT for everybody. Most people are too weak-minded and fuzzy-headed to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, so the drivel spouted by stunningly mediocre “professors” is accepted and believed because “they’re experts.”
That same phenom also explains most of the covid superstitions/
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The academics didn’t really move away from literal Marxism. I read something the other day that 1/5 university social science professors openly identify as marxist. Think about that.
I’m shocked it’s that low.
If you’re in any doubt about the ideological orientation of a given academic, you can apply the “parking lot test.” Go to the faculty lot. Find all the cars that are no older than 3 years from the current year. From those, exclude American makes (except Tesla). From the remainder, exclude any that don’t have an ostentatious environmental impact, one way or another.
What you’re left with, then, is ostentatious, ludicrously expensive, new-model import cars, either electric or enormous gas-guzzling SUVs.
Those are the Marxists. The most obnoxious, pimped out one — your really high end Beemer or Benz, the kind of thing a rapper would drive — is the card-carrying Communist.
Ultimately, there’s only going to be one solution (with many facets) to dealing with these tards. And it’ll involve primarily the intestinal fortitude to do what needs to be done utilizing traditional implements including scary looking devices that go bang, twine that can be woven into rope, things that can produce fire, very sharp steel etc. The possibilities are endless.
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“The Possibilities are Endless”
Here in Clownifornia, many of the woke are being hoisted by their own petard. Headlines of the death of so-and-so-soymann at the hands of vibrancy fill me with a kind of schadenfreude that ought not to exist. Many such cases.
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Isn’t it funny at how vibrancy attacks the wokeiest ?
I seem to be immune to it. I just dawned on me the other day, when I was walking around somewhere and a few black guys got all tensed up and nervous. You could see it, the way they were staring at me and getting into a defensive posture.
Maybe there are white guys who trigger their threat response just as there are black guys who trigger a white’s thereat response. And I’m nothing special physically but I am quite fearless and confident, and that must be what triggers them.
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I find the same thing. I remember while travelling in Europe, I was not bothered once by African or Arabic scammers/thieves, despite them being everywhere.
My smaller, woker, friend got harassed multiple times. They especially loved to prey on white women, who would start nervously laughing, and then pay up for whatever string they tied around their arm (because they’re totally not a racist!). If somebody tried that with me I would have rudely told them to f* off, and assault them if they continued to escalate (at least in a public place during the day, with other people and police around).
Same in my day to day life, nobody has ever called me a racist lol, and I’m the one white guy who probably is.
They can sense who the easy targets are. Woke whites are basically the suckers who they can dupe into giving them free stuff, or taking stuff from them. Unfortunately they’re giving away our entire civilization on a large scale right now.
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It is in the eyes and is somewhat instinctual because they are more animal than human.
I spent many years working around and in direct contact with the most violent, low IQ, savage, murderous types you can imagine. You either become hard or you will be eaten.
They sense it like dogs, if you have that steely resolve in your eyes they know you are going to not be easy prey and like any predator in the wild will look for the sick, frail, young, weak, or old to easily strike at. When there is a chance that they may be heavily injured or killed they back off.
One on one nogs are opportunistic and not very scary. The problem is that just like in the wild, they are cowardly pack animals not unlike jackals. They overwhelm by sheer force of numbers vs. any individual martial talent or bravery.
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“One on one nogs are opportunistic and not very scary. The problem is that just like in the wild, they are cowardly pack animals not unlike jackals. They overwhelm by sheer force of numbers vs. any individual martial talent or bravery.”
Nailed it! VERY few whites understand this anymore.
It is NOT DIFFICULT to control joggers. Only the WILL is lacking nowadays.And I am QUITE old enough to remember how it used to be.
And could be again if the WILL were to be found or generated.
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Notice too how they always look for that knockout punch, be it verbally or physically
Verbally, notice how they always go straight for the jugular. The one word or words they think can totally defeat you and back you off.
But if you can withstand the first barrage and keep standing there unaffected they become totally toothless
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Apparently the trick is to feign a Russian accent since they are the scariest whites:
https://youtu.be/Ofx7w_7dDEc
“Isn’t it funny at how vibrancy attacks the wokeiest?”
It drives home the fact that Wokeism is a death cult. Weak men are the most attracted to collectivist ideas because they most need the protection of the group… that’s the promise of Wokeism… but then they invite the predators into their midst and give them licenses to kill.
All while hating their would-be protectors such as police.
I don’t get misty about the eyes when a member of the Wokestapo winds up finding out the hard way that it’s not always cis White males who do bad things, i.e. those two Norwegian dingbats who went backpacking through Morocco a few years back.
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Indeed. I am still laughing at the latest one: some popular she-boon on Twitter was roasting the parents of Kyle Rittenhouse for so badly failing their son in his upbringing. All her fellow howler monkeys clapped and shrieked in approval and congratulated her on her scathing wit.
She was murdered just recently – by her own son. At thanksgiving.
😂👍
With the right mindset, noggers can be infinitely entertaining.
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Hah! Glen, many thanks for the early Christmas present. May many more be delivered down to the burning depths.
“First, they see the browning of the West. Even though they could put an end to it tomorrow and even reverse the trend, that requires things of them they no longer possess, so the new religion makes it seem like a naturally occurring thing.”
About ten years ago, a friend of mine attended a social gathering with other foreign service officers. A few of them had just returned from posts in Haiti. It was a small gathering with plenty of alcohol. The officers who’d been in Haiti began to speak frankly about their experience, comparing the Haitians to animals.
They were lefty progressives. I’m sure they look at Trump supporters and populists as dull, blue collar, unsophisticated rubes.
I wonder what they think now when they drive past the elementary schools in Arlington County and see that the playgrounds are filled with foreigners.
The new religion of wokeness has the power to blind even those who have had first hand experience with racial differences.
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They are profoundly paternalistic as regards nonwhites. They believe that all men are created equal and the DON’T believe it. Simultaneously. And I don’t think it causes cognitive diss. They are “above that sort of thing, don’t you know.” They are Mahatmas: Great Souls.
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Remarkable that these people even needed to serve in Haiti to realize such a basic and obvious truth. That said, it is quite clear from your story – and many, many others – that people do have eyes to see and ears to hear, yet they simply must conform. These fellows are the most cretinous of all.
That’s the way it goes, I suppose.
Nice timing on the article as Steve Sailer just wrote his explanation of what explains Wokism. For Sailer, it’s just about the money. He’s wrong.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-basic-logic-of-wokeness/
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I think it’s a combination of genocidal hatred and religious fervor/social fad. For the people at the top of cloud people, who set the trends, it’s genocidal hatred. For the rest of the cloud people, it’s followed with religious fervor.
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It is hatred of the self
It’s a modern form of self-flagellation
A person who loves himself tends toward wanting to procreate and make more of himself. Notice how the destruction of life is at the core of wokeism
Appetite for Destruction
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iSteve isn’t wrong.
He’s only half-right.
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Yeah, but the half that he’s missing is the important half.
“Wokism also explains why people are not the same, despite the unshakable belief that all men are created equal.”
I would challenge this a bit:
The “all men are created equal” thing has been tossed out with Christianity. Christianity, and in a broader sense, theism that is framed around a brotherhood that serves a greater power or moral framework, by necessity has led to democratic processes and an idealic sense of equality before the creator who made us all in his image.
Remove Christianity and what you have left is the obvious reality of inequality. The problem is, the moralistic premises behind Christianity still color things, so explaining inequality must be done with a good/evil paradigm. The science of genetics cannot be trusted to explain these realities. Inequality must therefore exist because of malice on the part of SOMEONE, or a group of SOMEONES.
The left does not want us to be equal, they want white people to be cast as EVIL and morally corrupted compared to the innocence and purity of brown people. This is the gospel of their new religion and it isn’t up for debate.
In summary, I don’t think equality or the premise of it holds any continuity with the current religion. It has been abandoned. This is why the destruction of white people, culture, and institutions has been set in motion. Everything we created, no matter how benevolent to humanity, is inherently evil.
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You are trying to apply logic to faith. They firmly believe that “all men are created equal” which is why they mention the DOI so often. On the other hand, they don’t think much about who or what created them. That is solved by the blank slate. People are infinitely malleable, so the creator no longer matters.
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“They firmly believe that ‘all men are created equal’ which is why they mention the DOI so often.”
Yeah, but what I see in them is good old-fashioned paternalism. They dutifully parrot the catechism of our bizarre civic religion, but in their heart of hearts, they KNOW that all those “lesser breeds without the law” can’t do anything for themselves, so their white Bwana must see to it that badwhites do the right thing, which means following the prescriptions of the goodwhite class to the benefit and “uplifting” (a telling term) of Joggers and assorted categories (not regarded as real people, but as symbols of white privilege and as the objects of the virtue and great-hearted charity of the thoroughly paternalistic goodwhites).
It’s so convoluted that it’s hard to follow, but that is only an outward and visible expression of what is inside these peoples’ heads: confusion mixed with self-aggrandizement and a counterfeit spiritual exaltation.
There’s a lot of mental illness abroad in the world. It’s just been normalized is all.
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“In summary, I don’t think equality or the premise of it holds any continuity with the current religion. It has been abandoned.”
Yep, it’s been formally replaced with the concept of equity. The Left abandoned equality the moment they became strong enough to persecute their enemies, white Christian Westerners, who were no threat to them.
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This new religion depends on autonomous tech because it’s anti human. The ‘nonessential’ crowd will find out what that word means when the machines they depend on decide they’re nonessential, or when they die while having their consciousness ‘uploaded’ to an avatar. That probably sounds insane, because it is, but that’s what the priests of the new religion believe.
Irl, whether contrived or not, the reaction against woke has begun. I can’t see how woke comes out on top. Sure, it was once fanciful to think men could fly, but that’s a technology that augments the person. This is killing the person to be reborn as a god, which has never worked and isn’t coherent.
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Apparently the Wokists fail to realize the logical endpoint of their blessed autonomous tech is Skynet.
Once again, get out of the city. While in the city, wokism is like gravity. It’s everywhere all the time and will wear down even the most diehard sane person. As long as you remain within the indoctrination zone, you will gradually be ground down into subservience.
I live in a small rural community where social interactions are far fewer and most frequently one-on-one. In this setting, wokism is almost non-existent because there is no herd to back up the proselytizer and embolden their sales pitch. In the rare event that you encounter such, a hard puzzled stare tends to deflect their assault quite well.
Wokism is a disease of the metropolitan areas, much like AIDS. No one person can beat back a social disease founded on abject depravity, but you can certainly choose to live somewhere other than a cesspool.
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“It is not surprising that this new religion would be born on campus. They have been the monasteries of America since the beginning. The Puritans founded Harvard soon after they arrived for the purpose of training preachers. The beliefs of the ruling class of America have always been incubated and maintained on the college campus, … .”
This is only partly true, and we know that you know that because you have written about it before. And you quite often obliquely speak against what you have written in the quote above.
The Puritans arrived in America with a printing press to publish their nutty ideas. They have birthed all the -isms: Puritanism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Unitarian-Universalism, Transcendentalism, Abolitionism, Christian Science, etc.
The men who settled the South did not bring a printing press. It was not in their nature even to think of doing such a thing. They brought guns, dogs, musical and instruments. They ate oysters ffrom the tidal rivers and learned from the Indians to smoke tobacco and eat “barbacoa.” The Puritan Yankee lived beside waters rich in lobster and other such food sources, but they ate baked beans by choice.
So it is a mistake to speak of America and Americans and their rulers as one thing.
There is no American nation and there never has been. Various scholars have written extensively on this plainly observable fact, this scholar or that identifying between four and sixteen distinct American nations (“nation” is form the “natus” the past participle of “nascere,” to be born, so a nation is a group of people first and foremost related by blood as well as a common history, language and culture).
“The new religion not only explains the conflict between reality and their beliefs, but it also gives them a purpose. […].”
That’s probably the main thing in my opinion, and it says a lot about these people you are talking about.
Your excellent and readable (as ALWAYS) article today, with some of its observations reminded me of something de Tocqueville wrote (about the people you are writing about today, although he didn’t know that, at least exactly):
“There are some [countries] whose inhabitants think of themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called “the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when their own security and that of their children is finally compromised, they do not seek to avert the danger themselves but cross their arms and wait for the nation as a whole to come to their aid. Yet as utterly as they sacrifice their own free will, they are no fonder of obedience than anyone else. They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy the law as a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license.
When a nation has reached this point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no longer finds citizens but only subjects.”
Yeah.
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There is no American nation…? Ya might want to run that past the mudflaps in the middle east, the Chinese, the Russians, and probably most of Africa…
Hmmmmmmm. Overall it is well thought out and well presented (as usual)… but it bothers me, Z.
Christianity ‘sold’ because it was a far better way to see the world, and your fellow man. It wasn’t just a good deal for the noble, it was a good deal for the peasant too. Christianity recognizes the value of hard work and personal sacrifice. Peasants were encouraged to work hard for their masters. The masters were obligated to look after the peasants. Contrary to the story tellers – the nobles, the slave owners, the royals – all had valid interests in those they ruled and their welfare. The Christians were in no position to force the faith on the Romans to convert in 380 AD. Finally – and you will have a problem with this as will many others – there is indeed a God. And just so ya know… He’s right there under your nose. You have been conditioned as much as the Woketard – so you can’t see Him. Not to preach at anyone – I spent most of my life as an atheist and was blind too. Christianity requires you to take up burdens in order to free yourself. It is very specific in pointing out that virtue signaling will get you nowhere – you have to be a better person, not just go through the motions.
With Wokism, the believer is absolved of all the icky duties and and responsibilities of the Christian. It relies on animosities that all gets downloaded on the peasantry – and they will pay through the nose in blood and nig geld. As a woke nobleman, I can fill your neighbourhoods with diversity and all that goes along with it – and the nobles in my exclusive gated community will sing my praises, and punish you if you dare to notice the obvious downsides. It works so well that even the pozzed churches have bought into it hook, line and sinker. It’s rampant: the priest will turn his church over to the homeless, impoverished illegals – and they will raise hell in the surrounding neighbourhood but the priest doesn’t care. He spouts off a few lines of scripture, and then jumps in his BMW and goes home to his nest among the Cloud People. What you don’t see in the mass media or the social media – is that those churches usually empty out and close without white Christians to support them.
Proper Christianity involves rebuke, correction, and repentance. THAT is why it has been so successful, historically speaking. The wheels are coming off Wokism as we speak. Do you still subscribe to the mass media? Do you believe what you read? Do you trust your gubbimint? How do you feel about covering for that affirmative action slug in your department that can’t pull his weight and wouldn’t even if he could? How’s your sportzball team doing? Wokism can only end one way.
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Excellent observations. Christianity requires something from its adherents. A good analogy is great art, music, and literature. There is no doubt that Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the world’s greatest epic poems. But most people will never enjoy it because they are simply unwilling to put in the time and effort it takes to fully digest and contemplate such a masterpiece. They would rather watch a silly film or football match. Those ephemeral entertainments require no effort.
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Somewhere out there – instead of an aspiring rapper, there’s an aspiring Milton. Whatcha’ think?
Excellent post. Z’s biggest problem is his blind spot or flat rejection of Christian truths. Writing long essay’s is nice and all, and they help is small doses, but to understand man and the world, you have to see it through a religious lens. Then, it all makes sense.
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But wokeism is an offshoot of a type of Christianity that demands perfection, sort of a Calvinistic thing
It’s a cry for help, whatever it is. It’s rooted in fear.
People who are naturally brave at heart reject it on its face because it deeply offends their sensibilities.
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Wokism is the tsle of the Good Samaritan redefined as a suicide pact for whites.
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Falcone: Strongly disagree. It is a perversion of Christianity, through the lens of talmudism – it might better be called the real ‘judeo-christianity.’ It is at heart rules based (which is Juice and Mohammedan, not Christian) and ever changing. So just as there are blatantly contradictory parts of Mohammedan suras, the newest stands in lieu of the older, just as what is verboten today applies for things said years ago. The priests of wokism are those who are told to be silent or face rebuke in true Christianity – the sexually degenerate, immodest women, and unbelievers.
Well said.
That’s all I want to say, but I’m told by an electronic gadget that my comment is too short, so I’m now just blathering for no real purpose. Speaks volumes about the world we have made for ourselves, don’t it!
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Having watched the progression of this mind-cancer since the late 80’s I find the two most salient characteristics to be the origins of its theology and the nature of its attraction to the believers. Regular readers here and of other writers like Bloom, MacDonald, and Irving are all too familiar with the origins. There is definitely a pattern that even the meanest intelligence can identify. I acknowledge the wisdom of not allowing yourself to be completely defined by opposition to some ‘other’ but that’s an expression of intellectual and emotional maturity. This is certainly not the only mutagen afflicting our body politic but its obviously one that has to be addressed. If our movement were to follow the example of history on how best to motivate the masses, its leadership would not scruple to express the grossest simplification of the evils of the ‘other’. How openly these expressions are promulgated subject of course to relative power relationships.
As to the attraction of the theology, for blacks themselves and blank-slate fanatics it really is all they are left with to explain the failure of every single experiment in social engineering up to now to achieve statistical equality of accomplishment between whites and blacks. Time after time, through at least 100+ years of scientific refinements to rule out various sources of bias, the result of social engineering and intellectual quantification experiments always confirm what common sense observation had resolved for millennia. The only avenues left to explore the question further are in the forbidden field of genetics so they have resorted to a ‘white matter’ theory, detectable only through its deleterious influence on blacks. Perhaps the Hadron Collider will be employed to detect the racist particles that fill the aether in near future. I bet a proposal to do so would be funded.
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King Arthur: “The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.”
Dennis: “Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
As an aside–or maybe that was the aside–I do not think the elites gazed down upon all of the browns and invented so-called “wokism” to account for this strange new world. On the contrary, the desire to destroy white civilization, which is the objective of wokism, is what precipitated the importation of the aliens. In other words, wokism is not an ex post facto coping mechanism for the elites. Rather, it is the very ideology of the West’s destruction. It is an active, not a passive principle.
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The idealization of General Sherman is a great example of this. Ole’ Tecumseh was a hard man. War was horrible, so he would be so horrible that it would end quickly. He did this no matter who he was pointed at.
Lefties hate white people so much that the mere fact he did it to the South washes away that he did it to the Plains Indians next without so much as a second thought.
Hating bad whites is their only good.
With reference to your Christian analogy, woke also has it’s own version of their bible we shall call The Book of the Woke which includes two books, the old and new woke testaments.
What we saw in the 60’s was the old woke testament. It was a bit stodgy and connected to the liberal history of the previous liberal generations. It proclaimed the cultural changes were necessary through free love, drugs, divorce, open marriage, abortion, “stick it to the man”, and racial acceptance.
Today we are witnessing the new woke testament being revealed and preached around the world. And just like the New Testament of the Bible, where Christ was foretold in the Old Testament, we are witnessing a completely new set of individuals who have arrived. Individuals who are more like us in the flesh, who are more personal and inviting.
And much like Christ of the New Testament, the woke of their new testament have made it clear that all must follow and accept them as our new lords and saviors or suffer eternal damnation and rejection as stated in the book of Environmentalism Chaper 2, verse 25 “None can come to Gia except through us.”
What’s really interesting in this parallel of the Christian Bible, and the Book of the Woke, is they both have the exact same ending – Revelation of the beast and a total apocalypse.
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Jesus and his disciples never advocated for the extermination of an entire race of men. Nor did Christ advocate for the end of Roman governance.
“Wokism” is another word for totalitarian politics. Comparing Christianity to “Wokism” is ridiculous on its face.
I’m not denying the religious aspects of Wokeism, but I would argue that there’s a strong element of opportunism that has made it into a big force.
Corporations and politicians found in this movement an opportunity to “sacralize” their own self interests and to demonize opposition. Formerly mundane political disputes are now transformed into moral causes. School Board elections are now jihads. The corporations get to pursue heaven on earth, not just high returns on shareholder equity.
Ironically, the utterly nihilistic apparatus of modern business and government found in Wokeism a desperately-needed moral renaissance. Business needed distraction from oligarchy, cartel and wealth concentration. Government needed a distraction from its manifold modern failures. They cannot fix potholes, but they will deliver Heaven on Earth………..
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Zman does Bill Maher strike you as the most visible public old school leftist? He often appears on his show questioning what happened to the left and it often comes where he says we used to be a color blind society, now everything is about race and blaming or bashing White people. We used to say we wanted free speech and now we are all about cancelling people. It seems to invert liberalism he says Woke-ism. Maher used to always attack religion on the right. This is probably why he hates wokeness, because it feels like a Religion at this point.
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Maher is a servant of the devil. He was on the Epstein flights. His shtick is wearing thin and he knows his days will be numbered; hence, he is complaining.
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I have imagined that if George Carlin were still alive, he’d be saying the same things. His thing was always easy when it was the conservatives who were “the man” and corporations were in bed with them. Now that the roles have reversed, how would he deal with it?
Granted, he always had far more talent than Bill Maher, but I do think he would struggle with it. Or, maybe he would evolve into a more Dennis Miller kind of thing…
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Maher’s definitely a snarky a-hole, but a lot of the woke crap seems to rub him the wrong way. The left has gone so far, so fast and so radical that even a-holes like Maher are alarmed.
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Maher is a left-libertarian. He does not want any rules that prevent him from pleasuring himself. He is a guy who famously spend his weekend with prostitutes. Wokism probably strikes him as a new set of rules against carnal pleasure, so he opposes it
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Maher is one example, but there are more and more. To me, Jimmy Dore is the best example of this category of left behind liberals, as z has mentioned. If I were to venture a guess, most regular democrats fall in this category and really just don’t pay close attention to what is happening. The zealots are maybe 20% of the party, but they’re the most vocal, active, and have taken all leadership positions. So I’m doubtful that the old classical liberals stand much of a chance in the dem philosophical divide.
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Wokeism at its root is about purity and perfection
Thats what rubs him the wrong way since he is more of a sex, drugs and rock and roll guy, for lack of a better phrase
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Maher, though he can’t admit it in public, has realized his, “fellow white,” cloaking device is useless versus the vibrant children of Kalergi.
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Johnny: We were never a ‘color-blind society,’ although that’s what leftists like Maher preached endlessly. They never truly meant it – Maher never identified nor defined himself as White before – he was special and kool and was down wit his nogger friends. He – like Brett Weinstein or Bari Weiss or any of the leftists who’ve now fallen afoul of the latest iteration of wokism – will NEVER be your ally. Maher still opposes ‘White supremacy’ and Christian morality and the foundations underpinning the stable society we used to have, which enabled him to make money by mocking and undermining it. He will never recognize that his ‘fall’ is a consequence of the poisoned fruit he championed for years.
Religions sometimes convert, and sometimes don’t, and sometimes do not want to convert. Western Europe after the fall of Rome was thinly populated, illiterate mostly, poor, and thinly Christian. The Barbarian conquests succeeded because there was literally no Romans to oppose them, but could not emulate Rome though they wanted to because their people were illiterate with little to no skills. Conversion to Christianity gave kings literate clerks who could not try to inherit the throne, and could tally taxes in the way pagan shamans could not. Hence the conversions. It was literacy above all else that led to Christianizing Europe.
Egypt by contrast fought the Persian efforts to wipe out their religion for 400 years until Alexander conquered the Persians. For some reason the Egyptian gods got under the Persians skins and they tried unsuccessfully to stamp it out generating constant revolts. Islam found many converts in conquered lands because it meant the end of the taxes on non Muslims, however in India there was a desire to keep a slave population that was quite large and the old Hindu gods still have to this day many adherents.
Wokism finds easy converts among: blacks, mulattos, White women (seeking to have mulatto kids as the new “half-blood princes” i.e. Obama types), other non-Whites (but not Latinos who increasingly know they are the other White meat for dinner). It has no chance of EVER getting many White men to be adherents. Only the genetically damaged like the anti-Fa shot in Kenosha, or gays, or trannies.
Moreover the Woke offers no path for conversion for those “genetically evil” and with hereditary blood guilt. The only role White men get to play in the Woke religion ruling our society is the bad guy scheduled to be wiped out. Completely. Everyone knows this and it is why we approach a forest event: cutting down all the White trees.
Wokism is a stupid religion, as it guarantees something like Rwanda cubed with all the latest modern weapons at first, and then small arms at the end. It NEEDS that sort of thing, in every aspect it cannot moderate or tamp down social strife but requires a Gotterdammerung for catharsis. The most devout adherents of Wokism actively work for the day this catharsis starts. No one should fool themselves this is not coming — the Wokist of the Woke demand it happen.
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As it is with gravity – you may ignore Wokism, but Wokism will not ignore you
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wokism & all the other climate change nonsense are a front for population control(slavery)/sterillization, it’s a means to an end. elites have a different religion, they don’t really give a flying fuck about global warming & equality. Soros doesn’t fund BLM cause he’s woke. Southern african countries got suspiciously travel banned cause of covid new variant, this would not be the case if elites were actually woke.
This is one of the things that has always amazed me about woke and climate change. It could not be more blindingly obvious that the elites don’t believe a bit of it. From living in all-white communities, attending all-white schools, to buying beach-front property and flying around in private jets, they clearly believe the exact opposite of what they say. And yet, all of their acolytes have the religious fervor of the true believer. The sheer amount of cognitive dissonance is incredible!
Then again, as with many religions, that sort of thing isn’t uncommon. Living a life of poverty and charity while the high-priests live in lavish comfort and hedonism isn’t anything new.
“This is why it is delusional to think this stuff is just a fad and will fade without having to confront it in the culture war. That is the old libertarian impulse to cower on the sidelines while pretending to be above it all . . . The woke can remain unreasonable longer than the reasonable can remain smug.”
Sailer and the HBD crowd right in the crosshairs. Now back to read all the comments.
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Let me add, that finally seeing Michael Anton’s “unprecedented” article all the things he says are unprecedented:
A. Ugliness as the mark of the ruling elite in advertising and architecture and everything else.
B. Destruction of the people and deliberate importation of poverty and dysfunctional people.
C. Anti-natalism and celebration in public of depravity
Are the function of two inter-related things: the ascendancy of White women and blacks in leadership of nearly everything, and the Woke Religion as the justification for that ascendancy as they fail again and again.
Looking at the Democratic Texas Flee-baggers, the people who fled Texas to prevent voting reform (dead and non existent cannot vote) they were all White women. And manifestly ugly and fat ones too. Looking at the leadership of the Democratic Party, Biden is the last White man left standing (and pooping his pants). Aging alcoholic wine aunts, various angry/vengeance minded non White women, random incompetent gays and trannies, a few black or Latino men, and a heaping helping of Indian dudes with all their well known faults is what passes for leadership among corporations, Democratic politicians, the Military, NGOs, media, and academia. All of whom fail, fail again, fail some more, and then fail and fail. In every thing they try to do. Thus Wokeism explains the failures, offers a perfect future (just cut down every White tree) and justifies their existence.
Which explains also the lurching towards Armaggeddon. Christian Europe got wealthier, more organized, more pleasant, more prosperous, and more populated as time went on. This was because literacy among the clerics, serfdom substituting for slavery, some moderation of constant warfare among nobles, and stability allowing craftsmen and guilds to flourish along with European trade created both power and stability: just look at Chartres Cathedral, or York, or Il Doumo. By contrast our age has Frank Gehry and disintegration.
If I was pressed to the most critical aspect of growth of Wokism, and its trajectory, I would argue its White women who are the schwerpunkt. The hinge of battle. They quickly with the pill and condom and anonymous urban living and rising incomes realized they no longer needed (and they never wanted) beta male provision. The ideal is now (in advertising) no longer a black husband even but mulatto kids who will grow up to be Obama types. George Floyd is the ideal man because he was stupid, large, aggressive, a drug addict, fathered lots of kids he never supported (the female ideal of a man — he’s desirable because he fathered so many kids in a recursive joke) and had a long history of criminal violence. Fat women in underwear ads appeal to most White women (and all black women) because they no longer need to appeal to even beta males any more. You can see this in the Black Lives Matter rallies. Pretty much all White women, no White men, and lots of blacks. That’s the woke. The wild-card is Latinos. They pretty much despise the crazy White left, they came here to make money and establish greater Mexico, not Northern Haiti.
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Men like Jan Huss and John Wycliff were the dissidents of their day.
Within the framework of Christianity they were searching for truth and the truth they found differed from the established truth of their world.
They also paid the price for being a dissident.