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This is how "wokeness" (postmodernism + Critical Theory) is collapsing our society: not from the top down, but from the bottom up.

The top dominos are the last ones to fall...inertia leaves them suspeneded in mid-air until the ones directly beneath them fall...
2/
The bottom dominos are things like truth, reason, merit, objective moral standards, individual rights, and the nuclear family.

The top dominos are things like peace, order, beautiful art, innovation, democracy, fairness, properly functioning institutions, and wealth.
3/
It takes time for the dominos at the top to fall. It doesn't happen all at once.

As the woke use postmodernism and critical theory to destroy the foundational societal dominos (merit, reason, objective truth), the dominos of society collapse from the bottom up...
4/
The people at the top are those who grew up and were educated when merit, objective morals, reason, and absolute truth were still the dominant values in our society. The woke employees in entry level positions who are going to replace those people don't believe those things...
5/
They see truth, merit, objective morals, and reason as expressions of power by an oppresive ideology. And they seek to replace them:

-Objective Truth is replaced subjective experience
-reason is replaced with emotion
-objective morals are replaced with subjective morality...
6/
-merit based hiring is replaced by diversity based hiring

This happens at the bottom of institutions first, the top changes last as older people retire.

IE: most older journalists believe in telling objective truth, those who will replace them believe in "telling narratives"
7/
As the gender theorists atrack the nuclear family and deconsreuct our paradigms for what sex, marriage, relationships, the family as a social building block will collapse

Marriage rates will fall as people go from marriage relationships to serial monogamy and "situationships"
8/
This will take time to unfold. Gen x and older millenials will marry and have families. Younger millenials and older gen z will form some families as they coast on the fumes of paradigms they remember from childhood. Those younger then that will have no paradigm for marriage.
9/
Because the woke thought marriage norms were expressions of cis-hetero-patriarchical power and oppression, those after gen z will live in a world without paradigms or norms for relationships. They will have to reinvent the wheel every time they try to form a relationship...
10/
Science will continue for a little while, but as we move from objective truth to lived experience, science will falter too. This is already happening in the social sciences (that's why they think being a woman is about self-identification, not objective facts about biology)
11/
The hard sciences will soon follow. They will give way as their methods are attacked as being nothing but the product of straight white males making up rules and norms for their one benefit.

That, coupled with the rise of lived experience and the fall of objective truth...
12/
will lead to grant money, lab space, and other resources moving away from those who produce rigorous replicable results, and towards those who (enabled by the loss of objective standards) can leverage woke ideology to climb the social ladder and grab positions of influence.
13/
This pattern will be replicated across institutions and disciplines.

In politics, science, medicine, innovation, law, jounalism, and everything else, positions of influence won't go to those most competent, but to those able to leverage wokeness to climb the social ladder...
14/
It is only when this shift is complete that the top dominos of peace, order, national security, pubkic services, and societal wealth will begin to fall.

It will look like a failed state.

We absolutely do not need to let this happen...
15/
There are still enough of us from the classical liberal world who can stem the tide of wokeness.

To do that we must:

-build woke-resistant institutions

-build woke resistant messaging platforms in art, culture, and journalism

-contest woke ideology whenever we see it
16/
There is still time.

The woke are becoming exposed and have overplayed their hand. But we must act now. There is no time to put our heads in the sand and hope they go away. We have to act, and act *NOW*

So go... start building a world for your children to thrive in.

/fin
PS/
For those complaing that the video is CGI....I know. It's just an analogy. Dont get lost nitpicking over CGI.

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Has that man...
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