The bind that liberalism has put itself in is very simple. It promises a level playing field, but when you actually play the game, it keeps resulting in unequal outcomes between different groups
"Reasonable people" should conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with it
Wokeness buys liberalism's basic promise—all groups are equal in ability, and we will treat them fairly—then watches as the system keeps spitting out "unfair" disparities
From this perspective, it is perfectly reasonable and logical to then say "Well this system is just a lie"
There's no escape hatch here. If you're a liberal, and you keep seeing big disparities in outcome between races or genders or etc, logic insists you should become Woke to correct this
You're only quibbling about the best Woke policies. Not that Wokeness is itself wrong
The only alternative aside from Wokeness is to reject the core premise that all groups are equal
And if you're willing to do that, to say "All right, but what if we did *racist and sexist* liberalism"
Then congratulations, you're 80% of the way to reinventing neoreaction, James
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Here's a simple test of the non-woke left's defenses against the woke.
Differences in outcome between men and women, and people of different races, are very clear. Look at crime rates, for instance. What explains these differences?
You don't exactly have to be Bobby Fischer to think through the next 2-3 moves here
Poverty, right? Material outcomes? Well if everyone is equal, what causes some groups to continually lag behind in material outcomes?
What explanation exists besides systemic racism?
Cultural differences? All right, well if the dominant culture privileges itself, shutting other cultures out of the wealth that is necessary to access resources, become educated, and succeed, how is that not just another form of systemic racism by the ruling white culture?
It's interesting that the regime keeps trying to tie incels to gun violence as a grave threat to society when the last time that men were allowed widespread access to arms led to the most attractive and successful population of marriage partners of all time
My read on this is that the introduction of agriculture/pastoralism allows the families/clans that initially monopolize these resources to enact violence/ostracism against their *internal* competitors, allowing those clans complete reproductive takeover
But once that success allows them to grow to the size of a polity that can afford—and requires—a new and dedicated martial caste to protect its wealth and property, reproduction suddenly becomes much more egalitarian
Especially as martial tech allows them to conquer *outsiders*
The point of this ideology is that you're not allowed to exist outside it. If you ever transgress it—even in the past, before it existed—you get thrown out of society's airlock
The lack of redemption is how you engineer total submission to it
Since you've already been given the social death penalty, there's no further costs for defecting harder against it, even becoming its mortal enemy
The effect of its demand for submission is that it becomes a radicalization engine
Extreme polarization is baked into the cake
But this ideology, or maybe more accurately state of mind, hates that you continue to exist—you've been canceled, but it knows it lacks the power to make you *literally* dead
It can still see you floating around out there beyond the airlock. And worse, you can still *transmit*
Thank goodness we fortified our democracy to remove that existential threat to our people, allowing a triumphant return to normal of exporting countless working-class jobs to foreign countries while importing millions of migrants to compete with our newly-unemployed citizens
You'd never know because the media ran a 5-year propaganda campaign to deny any hint that what he was doing was working, but by the end he'd cut immigration in half + real working-class wages rose for the first time in two generations
But doing that was a fascism, so out it goes
For all their howling about "privilege," the nation's true privileged class has unanimously realigned to the Media-Migration Complex
There's a reason they see working-class gains as a total nightmare: their identity, + comfort, depend on the illusion they're still pro-"worker"
Watching this is enough to make me feel schizophrenic but the second video angle makes it much more likely to be a bizarre accidental forced perspective or something
When things are *too* easy that's when you have to be most careful
Modernity is forcing the reinvention of bicameral mind in a new branch of human species
One voice is modern reasonable "well here's how all of this insanity makes perfect sense" while other voice is raw raging schizophrenia that you ignore at great peril
The elite class has been ideologically captured in a way we haven't seen since the 1930s. Trumpism was a rebuke of this, but a moderate one—an attempt to curb their worst excesses
In response, the elite monoclass went full scorched earth. Which it proved it has the power to do
"Pregnant female fighter pilots are the backbone of our military!" insists the top brass, completely exposing itself
The problem is that once even the top brass is doing naked jumping jacks in front of the window, there's no one left to come and arrest them for indecent exposure
"No brakes on the Trump train!," that was the refrain, but he just wanted to install some brakes on the regime, and they spent five years crucifying him for it
To the point where the regime now labels anyone who says "You know I kind of like brakes" as a domestic terrorist