Let's start from what is 'wokism'? Jean-Francois Braunstein explores this question in his essay, "La Religion Woke". The following is a cute and paste of that essay.
The woke ideology has grown religious features, Braunstein argues in his essay. According to him, it fills the perceived void of a higher truth in the post-religious society of today.
The influence of the woke ideology seems to have reached all different corners of society. Braunstein mentions the examples of the Disney company that invites its white employees to reflect on their privileges, political activists who determine the academic climate at universities and track down old-school professors and the multiplying number of courses on anti-racism.
“In the name of the fight against discrimination, a new intellectual terrorism is taking place in Western societies”, he writes. And, Braunstein warns: This movement overthrows all the usual frameworks of thought and its objective is to “deconstruct the cultural and scientific heritage of a West accused of being systemically sexist, racist and colonialist.”
The woke movement was born in American universities but now conquers Western societies quickly. Braunstein points out that its rise is similar to that of the Protestant revivalists in the 18th and 19th centuries. According to the philosopher, it is the first time in modern history that “a kind of cult is born in universities, with its own vision of the world, its dogmas, its followers, its rights and its quasi-sacred texts.”
Even though wokists pretend to have invented a new theory, they do not act as if they work for a better world, says Braunstein. “Their religion is a religion of purification and magical thinking, where forgiveness is absent.”
Wokism is very similar to the Christian heresy of Gnosticism which grew in the 2nd century, Braunstein writes. “The body was considered to be inherently bad. The utopian vision of a pure consciousness imagined a reality in which the human spirit could be totally free from the weight of the body and at the same time from sexual differences.”
The same elements are seen in wokism, according to Braunstein. “I can feel like a man or a woman, but also an animal, a river. However, it is only in the metaverse world that you can change your body at will. In reality, doing so will lead down a catastrophic path with irreversible damage.”
Braunstein writes. “The ambiguous role of the academic world in its development makes scientific and rational criticism almost impossible. No argument has any effect on them. We can try to stop them but not convince them.”
That wokism can gain ground so quickly in the higher levels of society, such as in the political arena, is due to the gap between the elite of society and reality, Braunstein argues. He quotes Christopher Lasch, who stated in 1995 that the “intellectual classes are fatally removed from the physical side of life. They live in a world of abstraction and images as opposed to the immediate, palpable physical reality inhabited by men and women.”
The causes for this are multiple, Braunstein explains. “Youth feels the need to fight, a form of tyranny of benevolence in which part of this American youth from a privileged background was brought up.”
Some argue that wokism is born from the Christian ideal of compassion. Braunstein acknowledges that the idea of a victim needing help and understanding constitutes the background of the woke ideology. “These identity ideologies work because everyone wants to be a victim today, and this has become the absolute reference. But at the same time, the compassion claimed by these ideologies is a mad compassion detached from reality and reason. It justifies all the inversions of value and the most absurd political choices.”
Commentary ~ I agree with Braunstein on every point in his essay. Even without describing Statism and Globalism... one can read between the lines to see those ideologies stand out in his text and fit with his take on Wokism.
Being woke in the 'liberal' mindset means blaming others for their choices made. It means full blown narcissism of the grossest kinds and the pride of being a full blown reprobate. Those who are such take pride in disgusting others with their lustful illnesses that they show off like huge oozing pimples on the face of descent society. Who is descent society?
Its a group of people that can think for itself. It has values that clearly designate who/what it is and who/what it is not. Sure, it can itself into trouble but also get out of it without blaming others and or looking to government handouts or some politician and his/her party. Descent society wishes it had local stores to shop in, local schools in which education is decided by them.
Descent society likes telling corporate elites to stop selling crap and polluting their towns. It likes going to work, local doctors, church and paying fair taxes. It likes watching television without porn, violence and filthy language. It likes using common sense and does not like being controlled by somebody's wild version of history, science or faith.
Now, one should ask the question why would Ai be necessary in all three in context of the Social Imagination? It is necessary in order for the ruling elite to bring to fruition the agenda of all three with Globalism being the sum of a grand finale.
But why? The elites cannot have or cannot allow free thinking people who have local knowledge or even common sense in the place where they live. They don't like reprobates either and they are willing to cull the herd in their end view of utopian globalism. Regardless of plagues, wars and financial crisis... Wokism, Statism and Globalism are the most dangerous; and with Ai at the helm (controlled by elites) we are living in very dangerous times.
ONLINE SOURCE~ https://cne.news/article/2095-wokism-is-a-religion-without-forgiveness [Christian Network Europe News: 11/24/2022]
It will be like in the days of Noah ~ Matthew 24:37.
ReplyDelete