Gotta be honest, man. I don't relate in any capacity to the so-called "left." I left the left. The left used to be about economics and labor unions. Ya know, the money. Who has it. Who doesn't. Ive been saying this for so long, I've lost my voice. What's sinister is that the wokers are being used by power. This is just one-big power move--the ol' divide an conquer. They argue about wether men can get pregnant and pronouns, while the the 2% pick our pockets. It sick and sad. I guess I'm politically homeless. What else is new?
I would agree that woke is not left, but they use dialectics as described by Marx/Engels to undermine family and identity until everyone is reduced to the smallest common denominator - organ donor.
Yes -- the woke are the useful idiots of The Machine which decided long ago to adopt the mantle of kindness and empathy (i.e. most people's understanding of leftism) in order to legitimise itself in the face of growing public awareness of the gross abuses of the corporate superstructure. And it has been so successful in this this disguise that many true 'leftists' have blindly followed along.
Wokeness and its underlying philosophy as a weapon used by the machine? Yep, and the philosophy more of a long term weapon than the wokeness itself which is no more than its latest iteration. The machine has been in place for a long time and always used its philosophy of control through social mores, but today it has a longer reach than ever before. The philosophy is strategic, wokeness a useful tactic.
James Scott's Art of Not Being Governed gives us the concept of Zomia as a haven for dissenters. While the machine called the outliers barbarians lost in a wasteland, the barbarians were in their own eyes outliers by choice. They chose to move to the margins to escape the machine.
Tech having made Zomia a practical impossibility we are left with few refuges, which means as you say that we must acknowledge what we are fighting and recognize it for the evil it is.
I must read this -- thanks for the tip. Here again we run into the perennial issue that we dissenters face: where in the world can one go when the world has been globalised?
When you’ve read it I’ll be interested to see what you make of it and how you think it will go in Maura O’Connells troubled fields. Good luck with the move to a spot in what will remain of Zomia.
May I suggest that what we are seeing is simply one of the anti-Enlightenment movements that has occurred since the European Enlightenment's beginning in protestant Europe. Others were Nazi'ism and Communism.
The missing concept in wokeism is ethics - more particularly : Christianity.
100% Andy. I was actually wanting to get deeper into the Enlightenment and the 'anti' movements that followed, the chief two of which you have accurately named (Nazism and Communism both being early incarnations of wokeness) -- but in the interests of keeping the essay under 1500 words I abbreviated. Glad you picked up what I was referring to.
Gotta be honest, man. I don't relate in any capacity to the so-called "left." I left the left. The left used to be about economics and labor unions. Ya know, the money. Who has it. Who doesn't. Ive been saying this for so long, I've lost my voice. What's sinister is that the wokers are being used by power. This is just one-big power move--the ol' divide an conquer. They argue about wether men can get pregnant and pronouns, while the the 2% pick our pockets. It sick and sad. I guess I'm politically homeless. What else is new?
Hello mate - thanks for being here. Sounds like you and I are pretty much on exactly the same page here.
I would agree that woke is not left, but they use dialectics as described by Marx/Engels to undermine family and identity until everyone is reduced to the smallest common denominator - organ donor.
Yes -- the woke are the useful idiots of The Machine which decided long ago to adopt the mantle of kindness and empathy (i.e. most people's understanding of leftism) in order to legitimise itself in the face of growing public awareness of the gross abuses of the corporate superstructure. And it has been so successful in this this disguise that many true 'leftists' have blindly followed along.
totalitarianism works much better when the fools'n'tools believe they are the good guys.
Wokeness and its underlying philosophy as a weapon used by the machine? Yep, and the philosophy more of a long term weapon than the wokeness itself which is no more than its latest iteration. The machine has been in place for a long time and always used its philosophy of control through social mores, but today it has a longer reach than ever before. The philosophy is strategic, wokeness a useful tactic.
James Scott's Art of Not Being Governed gives us the concept of Zomia as a haven for dissenters. While the machine called the outliers barbarians lost in a wasteland, the barbarians were in their own eyes outliers by choice. They chose to move to the margins to escape the machine.
Tech having made Zomia a practical impossibility we are left with few refuges, which means as you say that we must acknowledge what we are fighting and recognize it for the evil it is.
I must read this -- thanks for the tip. Here again we run into the perennial issue that we dissenters face: where in the world can one go when the world has been globalised?
When you’ve read it I’ll be interested to see what you make of it and how you think it will go in Maura O’Connells troubled fields. Good luck with the move to a spot in what will remain of Zomia.
yes yes, "the left" still has not managed to Exit the Vampire Castle.
Very insightful.
Well said, J. J. Dawson.
May I suggest that what we are seeing is simply one of the anti-Enlightenment movements that has occurred since the European Enlightenment's beginning in protestant Europe. Others were Nazi'ism and Communism.
The missing concept in wokeism is ethics - more particularly : Christianity.
100% Andy. I was actually wanting to get deeper into the Enlightenment and the 'anti' movements that followed, the chief two of which you have accurately named (Nazism and Communism both being early incarnations of wokeness) -- but in the interests of keeping the essay under 1500 words I abbreviated. Glad you picked up what I was referring to.