Thread by @ConceptualJames

Imagine the idiotic luxury of being Woke (Marxist or Fascist). Everything reduces to one variable: the rich, the middle class, racism and racists, sexism and sexists, a broad but constrained concept of normalcy, imperialism, whatever. This is truly intellectual decadence. 🧵

When you're Woke, there's always just one explanation for everything, and there's an associated group of people who can be scapegoated for that universal cause (that is, a devil). It's men! It's racists! It's white people! It's capitalists! Damn them!

Not only is there one answer (or a small number of related answers) to the question of what causes any problem, you also get to sound SMART, SOPHISTICATED, and ETHICALLY SUPERIOR for indulging this intellectually vacuous luxury, so long as you mean it and/or have some buzzwords.

But let's get real about this idiot decadence. In reality, problems have different causes and sometimes many causes. That means while you might occasionally hit on a correct critique, usually you'll miss the diagnosis significantly or completely while scapegoating people for it.

By misdiagnosing the problem, you're virtually guaranteed to misprescribe a solution. In fact, you're overwhelmingly likely to fail to work on any real problems and might end up doing nothing more than virtue signaling that you care (wrongly, but more than others) about things.

More specifically, for every possible cause that isn't the ONE CAUSE (the devil), you'll misunderstand the problem and misprescribe its solutions. That is, you'll look smart and superior while failing to solve the problem and creating new ones ("externalities").

As the problem itself festers and externalities multiply, because you only have one diagnosis, one "root cause," for every problem, you will diagnose the resulting increase in problems to the ONE CAUSE (the devil) and perpetuate the cycle of decadent failure.

Moreover, because the theory that tells you the ONE CAUSE (devil) is regarded in Leftism as a "sacred science" (a sociognostic awakening, hence "Woke"), it can't be wrong; it can only be sabotaged by the agents of the devil. You end up with a downward spiral of failure and blame.

This is fundamentally a structural abnormality that defines Leftist analysis (sociognosticism). Leftism will always produce this outcome, even when it appears to be "right wing" (Fascism) in certain superficial characteristics. That is, Woke always generates spirals of failure.