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the sources of wokeism? let's examine :-)
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wokeness as we know it is a self-perpetuating structure. it is a memetic life form.
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there's some dispute whether to consider wokeness a free living organism or a cancer.
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the wokeism is *shaped* by the US constitution:
religion being banned from official positions of power lets the "totally not a religion" religious movement dominate actual religions. missing is a proper mechanism for legally deeming wokeism a religion against its liking.
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wokeism is also adapted to leverage lack of protection for freedom of association - using tribal concerns as political wedges.
1: include those people or you are racist
2: cater to their interests now that they are in
note it's a ratchet - you aren't allowed to ask them out.
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that's the one source of wokeness: the *environment* of our society, where it underwent the natural selection.
the other source of wokenes is, well, *construed*.
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next up: blame Pasteur and Darwin (and their predecessors, to be fair):
through disproving the presumption of spontaneous generation of biological life, they laid the groundwork for *construction* of memetic life.
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Fabian Society and the likes figured they can make long-running, self-perpetuating memetic structures that will enact their vision of society; this is the upper class take on it
Marx published a three-layered DIY handbook for the vulgar (middle) class
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what kind of structures do they think of?
you'd be surprised: they want to just chill with their wives, insulated from wants and instabilities of the society. the exact problems they want to insulate themselves from depend on their moral values.
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rejection of "tradition" in the evangelical christianity, paralleled by rejection of traditional wisdom in the enlightenment.
this lets reason run *unchecked* by actual facts on the ground. while it's pretty good most of the time, when it goes wrong, it goes *very* wrong.
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why tradition? it's a body of knowledge and experience that passed the test of time. it is capable of correctly tackling problems and concepts that still elude our (limited!) reason.
tradition is the "senate" to reason's "house", if you know what i mean :-)
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@apex_simmaps provides an excellent contention, and prompts me to re-think my approach.
looking forward to a more extensive substack post on it 👍
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unironically this
told you - 4 tweets up :-)
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