If you’re not woke, then you’re asleep. Time to wake up!
Those who harshly criticize and condemn Woke folks and Woke culture live in dreamy, self-righteous fantasies of Far Right hatred and bigotry with murderous intolerance of everything else. Many are well-organized and armed. They behave as a cult, and cults of any kind bring out fanaticism and stupidity.
Religious cults, political cults, personality cults, ethnic-based socio-cultural cults, sports cults, social media cults, hey, whatever, it doesn’t matter. Cults are cults, humans are humans, and the desire to belong to the point one surrenders their personal sovereignty makes them puppets for any string jerker on a power trip. Cult followers and their leaders may or may not be charismatic, but they are all wacko weird and hungry for the promises of whatever belief system they made up in their own minds and collapsed with “truth.” They’re anxious about losing whatever status and power they believe they have left. Cultists are quick to demonize anyone and everyone outside their belief system. They fail to tolerate dissent or even mere disagreement. They fail to tolerate criticism and seem unable to abide by rapid changes in the status quo. They fail to understand distinctions between criticism and betrayal.
The Woke crowds are by their very nature multi-inclusive while the Anti-Wokers remain exclusive and fast asleep in vile and violent fantasies. Woke folks, for the most part, have a high degree of tolerance for nearly everything except intolerance itself. And, of course, criminal behavior and unethical practices. One piece of fascinating history is the English term, “woke,” first originated as slang used within Black jazz and pop culture in the USA back in the 1940s to connote a growing sense of social and racial justice. The opposite of wokeness is being asleep and unaware.
Yes, the Anti-Wokers are a bunch a damn sleepyheads. They believe they’re shepherds and act like sheep. The anti-Woke are big sleeping babies who never woke up and never grew up. Yes, they do need some tough love and some compassion. A little empathy. In the meantime, we can’t help them until they wake the frak up.
Wake up, sleepyheads! And clean up your damn messes! Get off reactive, fake social media with its infectious stupidity and instead study analysis of history, religions, and current events. You got time enough even while juggling kids, bills, and jobs. No excuses! Wake up and experience reality for once!
William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 8 Aug 2023
Shoreline/Seattle, Washington
USA
Cascadia
Earth
Sol
P.S. Yes, sleepyheads, you live in bioregions on a volatile, fragile, little planet revolving around a medium-sized yellow star out in one of many arms of a galaxy whirling amidst clusters of galaxies in a vast cosmic web sprawling across the universe. Wake up!”
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