striker42
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This isn't a thread for displaying different ridiculous forms of wokeness, but instead discussing the phenomenon. I have a few thoughts on it I figured I'd throw out there for discussion.
1- Wokeness comes from a basic human desire for superiority. Thinking of yourself as woke means you believe you have true knowledge of how the world works. It's almost a form of gnosis. The idea that you possess this secret knowledge is a basis to feel superior over those that don't.
2- Wokeness is not confined to the left. I've seen the right develop its own form of wokeness in recent times. The belief that masks are useless or that there was mass voter fraud. These beliefs give people on the right that same idea that they know true things about the world lending them a feeling of superiority.
3- Wokeness is a form of orthodoxy. More than ever the political sides have become pseudo-religions. There are beliefs that you must accept and any breaking from those beliefs is tantamount to heresy. It's to the point where any dissent will get you stripped of office or even cast out.
4- Most wokeness is simply conformity. Wokeness is supposed to be about people seeing and understanding what really goes on in the world and seeing the problems that others ignore. In truth, there's very little of that. Instead it is far more common for a woke individual to have gained their opinions on issues from their peers and not from their own analysis of the world.
I feel like any feeling of superiority based on beliefs is nothing more than hubris. I will not lend you any respect based solely on the content of your beliefs but instead on the depth of your reasoning in arriving at what you believe. True "wokeness" shouldn't be about advocating a list of positions but instead it should be pulling out the feeding tube of ideas that established political groups have you on. It should be about honestly looking at the world, analyzing your beliefs, testing them against what you actually see, and coming to conclusions yourself. One who does that is truly "woke".
1- Wokeness comes from a basic human desire for superiority. Thinking of yourself as woke means you believe you have true knowledge of how the world works. It's almost a form of gnosis. The idea that you possess this secret knowledge is a basis to feel superior over those that don't.
2- Wokeness is not confined to the left. I've seen the right develop its own form of wokeness in recent times. The belief that masks are useless or that there was mass voter fraud. These beliefs give people on the right that same idea that they know true things about the world lending them a feeling of superiority.
3- Wokeness is a form of orthodoxy. More than ever the political sides have become pseudo-religions. There are beliefs that you must accept and any breaking from those beliefs is tantamount to heresy. It's to the point where any dissent will get you stripped of office or even cast out.
4- Most wokeness is simply conformity. Wokeness is supposed to be about people seeing and understanding what really goes on in the world and seeing the problems that others ignore. In truth, there's very little of that. Instead it is far more common for a woke individual to have gained their opinions on issues from their peers and not from their own analysis of the world.
I feel like any feeling of superiority based on beliefs is nothing more than hubris. I will not lend you any respect based solely on the content of your beliefs but instead on the depth of your reasoning in arriving at what you believe. True "wokeness" shouldn't be about advocating a list of positions but instead it should be pulling out the feeding tube of ideas that established political groups have you on. It should be about honestly looking at the world, analyzing your beliefs, testing them against what you actually see, and coming to conclusions yourself. One who does that is truly "woke".
