4/ 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.
5/ 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.
6/ 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*.
7/ 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.
8/ 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
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.
8/ 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.
9/ 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 :-)
10/ @apex_simmaps provides an excellent contention, and prompts me to re-think my approach.
looking forward to a more extensive substack post on it 👍
2/ the more i dug into the article, the more the header image was *haunting*
#nospoilers beyond "the main show is the side show"
also, bonus points for mentioning 0HP 👍
3/ i can only dream to maybe, somehow, reach 10% of @parallaxoptics' writing acumen: the complex emotions are conveyed in the plain, precise language and meticulous typography 👍
incidentally, who are Land and Jim, and where do i find their work?
1/ Jason raises several objections to my take on Gab & the anime tiddy problem; his thread is worth reading.
i honestly can't give satisfactory answers here as the *frame of reference* is partly orthogonal to mine - and my vocabulary for highly derived problems is lacking :-)
i don't like *the* choice they made.
i do like the fact they were *able to* make a choice.
3/ the dualism (direct dislike / meta like) has a parallel in the freedom of speech problem: do we allow people to advocate abolishing freedom of speech?
*allowing* is defeatist; *disallowing* is self-defeatist.
2/ as mentioned times before, i'm for much freedom and some order; that's my base values. i'm also big fan of localism; of communities running their affairs to their own best interest. this includes gatekeeping - gatekeeping is good.
this comes to head with Gab.
3/ Gab is a widely successful *ecosystem* - web services and apps and a brand.
the success clearly indicates their particular choices that are attractive to a sizable number of people. those people end up joining, contributing, and also promoting it in their social circles.