Thread by @LoganLancing

How Woke works in plain language.

1. Awaken to "the truth"
2. Claim Victimhood Status
3. Argue your insight is infallible because of your "positionality" within the power hierarchy
4. Demand/coerce your way to illegitimate power
5. Destroy anyone in your way
6. Utopia

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1. Every woke movement begins with an "epiphany" that reveals how society really works. This truth is framed as hidden from the masses, accessible only to those who are enlightened or brave enough to see it.

Cult gurus lead their initiates to this "epiphany" over many interactions. Sometimes this process can take months, but because of the nature of the internet and social media, sometimes a new initiate can be turned in a few weeks, or even days.

The initiate is shocked to learn of this new community. "WOW - look at all of these people!"

The community uses trauma-bonding (a cycle of positive reinforcement and extreme criticism) to draw the initiate deep into the social and emotional realm where the magic happens.

The message is always clear: "I have information they have kept from you! You can trust me and you can't trust them. After all, they wanted to keep this hidden from you, but I won't because I care. Everyone else is a grifter, a con, or in on the scheming."

Initiates are introduced to the "forbidden" books, podcasts, and people that have been kept from them; introduced to the people who really understand how the world works and have an enlightened perception that pierces the veil.

Once initiated, the new member learns they are a victim. They learn society is structured by systemic, oppressive power that is keeping them down and out. There is an oppressor, and they are the oppressed.

They learn there is an unjust power hierarchy that they can now see. There is a group that is keeping them from realizing who they really are; a group keeping them trapped in an unfair, unjust, and oppressive game.

As a victim, they have an infallible insight into the really workings of the world. They can "see" the world as it really is because they live the lives of the oppressed.

They can see the things normies can't see. Their "positionality" grants them special access to "the truth."

The game now becomes one of recruiting more people into the cult and making demands.

Once armed with "truth" and victimhood, the group begins demanding concessions—power, influence, or "systemic" change. This is framed not as ambition, but as justice!

Resistance to their demands is framed as proof of systemic oppression.

Resistance is always framed as trying to maintain the status-quo, either as someone who is in on the con or as someone who just can't see "the truth" yet.

Anyone who opposes the movement, even mildly, is labeled a class traitor, oppressor, or collaborator. They must be silenced, canceled, or crushed to pave the way for real "progress."

Internal dissent is also eliminated. Woke movements often eat their own, purging insufficiently committed members to maintain ideological purity.

The endgame is always the promise of a utopia: a society remade in the image of the movement’s ideals. This vision justifies every extreme demand and every destructive act along the way.

This will look familiar for anyone who has paid any sort of attention to the Woke Left over the years.

But it's also instantly recognizable as the framework for the Woke Right.

They are two sides of the same coin because they both trace back to Idealism and all of its attendant gnostic and hermetic elements.

Both are antithetical to Individual Liberty because both are totalizing collectivist programs that think they are "the riddle of History solved."

Woke isn't dead. It's alive, well, and thriving on the Left, and it's a growing concern on the Right.

Neither iteration has anything to do with American Liberty, and we ignore this at our peril.