Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Anatomy of the Woke Madness--Victor Davis Hanson

Anatomy of the Woke Madness
  • How did such collective madness infect a once pragmatic and commonsensical America?
"Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. 
It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.”
Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history—whether by The 1619 Project and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling and Trotskyization of names and places. 
Wokeism becomes a child’s morality tale of noble non-white victims versus villainous white victimizers. 
Erasing the past and its language supposedly fuels a recalibration of the future, all in the here and now, a holy Year Zero
In the process, wokeism has done a lot of damage to America, and will do even more if left unchecked. 
  • Here are its chief characteristics.
Elites vs. Elites
First, remember that wokeism is a top-down phenomenon. 
It started in academia with “critical race theory” and “critical legal theory.” 
These are bastard offshoots of harebrained “critical theory,” which arose from a demoralized and adrift Europe after the cataclysms of two devastating European-spawned world wars.
These ‘theories” are merely adolescent delusions that norms, customs, traditions, laws, and rules are just arbitrary “constructs.”...Read all!

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