Western Jihadism seems like an accurate description, as converts to this new ideology (or new faith) often try to proselytize around them (with friends, family, on social media,...). For many of them, the end justifies the means.
Thanks Mark … I confess to being confused about how Woke resurfaced to describe mainly white evangelical social justice proponents, so you may be right. But I also recall some of the red-pilled folk on Twitter also describing themselves as lower-case woke, around 2014/15.
I usually use Social Justice, which for me at least meets them where they are and seems both generous and accurate yet also situates them in larger, older historical movements, basically encompassing everything from the Puritans to the Progressive movement to Marxism and socialism (and whatever this ideology may be called it is undeniably some mix of Protestantism and Marxism/Leftism).
But I think it helps to add something like "theocrats" or "theocracy" because this also helps pin them as the angry ayatollahs that they are.
But when this ideology is wielded by the rich & powerful (people like Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or anyone at the NY Times etc) and not a blue-haired They straight outta the Gender Studies Dept, lately I've been using "progressive oligarchy", which I think also hits the nail on the head.
All of the above. I think that a respectful tone that doesn’t sneer too much is helpful. Too much sneering is unbecoming and signals that you believe you’ve lost, leaving you little better to do than be petulant. I see a lot of this on all sides. I particularly like the use here of oligarchy. If anything is a weak point in that movement it’s top-down power and unearned status.
I’m wondering if there’s any substance in Brian Chau’s theory that those young people who are just becoming politically aware are going to push back on it as the establishment.
I have long referred to it as simply woke, but lately I have been calling it transhumanist, for the way this phenomenon has made common cause with corporations and the likes of Blackrock, and the globalist crowd of the WEF, WHO the UN, Democrats, the military and intelligence community. The woke instinctively embrace a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) because they know it is the absolute tool in cancelling your enemies, and you might imagine it would be administered exactly like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, PayPal etc, except greater than all.
It certainly slots in with transhumanism. It also jibes strongly with accelerationism. But these are intellectual concepts and don’t fulfil the need for chatting with the Miggins’s next door.
The Miggins might want to familiarize themselves with at least the concept of transhumanism, because such are looking to deliver their mRNA assorted gene manipulation payloads by such novel means as mosquitos, which implies they have eliminated any limits on their genetic manipulation of the global ecology of things.
I've toyed with the idea of calling them "Gramscian sleeper cells," as a semi-inversion of the implied wakefulness. But that would only really apply to those who are wearing social justice as a mask for totalitarian power plays or private perversions. I sense the bulk of their numbers are actually hypnotized.
Hypnotized by the right to be sanctimonious, likely to drop it once the candle of Wokeness has burned down to nothing from both ends. The Gramscians are probably only 5% of them or less. Though the hypnotized would likely be happy to help manage the CBDC etc censorists should the "woke" "Transhuman" and "accerationist" globalists reach total hegemony.
Western Jihadism seems like an accurate description, as converts to this new ideology (or new faith) often try to proselytize around them (with friends, family, on social media,...). For many of them, the end justifies the means.
Interesting piece, thanks.
Great piece. Wasn't "woke" originally a self-descriptor? I presumed it was a reaction to the Right's successful co-opting of "red-pilled".
Thanks Mark … I confess to being confused about how Woke resurfaced to describe mainly white evangelical social justice proponents, so you may be right. But I also recall some of the red-pilled folk on Twitter also describing themselves as lower-case woke, around 2014/15.
I usually use Social Justice, which for me at least meets them where they are and seems both generous and accurate yet also situates them in larger, older historical movements, basically encompassing everything from the Puritans to the Progressive movement to Marxism and socialism (and whatever this ideology may be called it is undeniably some mix of Protestantism and Marxism/Leftism).
But I think it helps to add something like "theocrats" or "theocracy" because this also helps pin them as the angry ayatollahs that they are.
But when this ideology is wielded by the rich & powerful (people like Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or anyone at the NY Times etc) and not a blue-haired They straight outta the Gender Studies Dept, lately I've been using "progressive oligarchy", which I think also hits the nail on the head.
All of the above. I think that a respectful tone that doesn’t sneer too much is helpful. Too much sneering is unbecoming and signals that you believe you’ve lost, leaving you little better to do than be petulant. I see a lot of this on all sides. I particularly like the use here of oligarchy. If anything is a weak point in that movement it’s top-down power and unearned status.
I’m wondering if there’s any substance in Brian Chau’s theory that those young people who are just becoming politically aware are going to push back on it as the establishment.
I have long referred to it as simply woke, but lately I have been calling it transhumanist, for the way this phenomenon has made common cause with corporations and the likes of Blackrock, and the globalist crowd of the WEF, WHO the UN, Democrats, the military and intelligence community. The woke instinctively embrace a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) because they know it is the absolute tool in cancelling your enemies, and you might imagine it would be administered exactly like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, PayPal etc, except greater than all.
It certainly slots in with transhumanism. It also jibes strongly with accelerationism. But these are intellectual concepts and don’t fulfil the need for chatting with the Miggins’s next door.
The Miggins might want to familiarize themselves with at least the concept of transhumanism, because such are looking to deliver their mRNA assorted gene manipulation payloads by such novel means as mosquitos, which implies they have eliminated any limits on their genetic manipulation of the global ecology of things.
I've toyed with the idea of calling them "Gramscian sleeper cells," as a semi-inversion of the implied wakefulness. But that would only really apply to those who are wearing social justice as a mask for totalitarian power plays or private perversions. I sense the bulk of their numbers are actually hypnotized.
Hypnotized by the right to be sanctimonious, likely to drop it once the candle of Wokeness has burned down to nothing from both ends. The Gramscians are probably only 5% of them or less. Though the hypnotized would likely be happy to help manage the CBDC etc censorists should the "woke" "Transhuman" and "accerationist" globalists reach total hegemony.