For those who seek a good explanation of what it means to be “Woke,” musician Tal Bachman has some good answers (posted at Mark SteynOnline). Here’s an extract:
. . .Through it all, a counterfeit
moral imperative with a deceptively appealing name ("social justice")
drives the cult. That counterfeit imperative casts all existence as one great
battle between Good (Wokism) and Evil (everything that is not Woke). It denies
any constraints on efforts to win that battle. It entails an obsessive
totalitarianism. It forbids critical self-examination of itself. Adherents of
the cult are Knowers of the One True Truth. They are crusaders in righteous
battle. Only victory matters. Anyone so much as questioning the One True Truth,
inside or out, must be destroyed.
Although this is often denied to
outsiders, Wokist theology requires hatred of America. It teaches that America
was conceived in sin and remains insufferably sinful. It therefore decrees that
America deserves execution and cremation into nothingness. Into that
newly-created void, Wokism itself must move. Only then will
righteousness prevail. Making this happen is a sacred obligation for all cult
members. Their great success shows their sincerity.
It's worth mentioning that while
Wokists want to destroy the United States of America, they don't mind the name.
For now anyway, they want to keep it. Retention of the name "The United
States of America" works as a kind of soporific: it helps obscure what they're
actually doing.
And what they're actually doing is
something like an Invasive Parasite Play: While keeping the outer forms (like
the country's name, like "elections", etc.) intact, they move in to
co-opt and control the structures and institutions which really run the country
(which is to say, the structures and institutions which control us). As a
result, millions remain oblivious that Wokists are destroying and replacing
everything that ever constituted the country—that is, that they are changing
what 'The United States of America' actually is.
Among many other things, that means
first targeting public order, buildings, cities, fair trials, public trust,
careers, police forces, education, laws, educations, freedom of speech and
religion and assembly and press, codes of ethics, corporate practices, borders,
political boundaries, the military, the economy, demography, religious beliefs,
customs, music, books, myths, movies, family dynamics, sexuality, heroes,
villains, history, aspirations, everything, and then, wherever possible, either
destroying them or replacing them with Wokist substitutes.
I mentioned above the analogy of an
invasive parasite, but this play is really something even more ambitious. It's
a metamorphosis play, where
infiltration, destruction, and replacement is followed by transforming the
United States into some completely different entity altogether. That
different entity is on track to resemble the former East Germany—a totalitarian
puppet-state run by a lawless secret police, subservient to a greater foreign
power—far more than any iteration of America throughout its history.
How did we get here? How have so
many people—especially Millennials—fallen for a cheap, Marx-inspired,
totalitarian deception?
The full
column is here.
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