Woke is not dead.
I keep hearing “Woke is dead.” A lot of people are being misled to think that President Trump’s overwhelming mandate, backed by the popular vote, is evidence that America has rejected Woke completely. It’s on to greener pastures. Not so fast.
Although it is clear that your average person does fully reject anything they identify as Woke, it’s also clear that your average person still doesn’t understand what “Woke” is. They know that it has something to do with men playing women’s sports. They know it has something to do with mandatory pronouns. They know it has something to do with DEI, racial quotas, microaggressions, resentment, anger, and Cluster B psychopathologies. A majority of Americans reject all of it, but they still don’t understand the engine driving the madness. They don’t understand that, despite the apparent “theoretical” retreat, Wokeness is still running the show. If we don’t understand this crucial point, then we are going to get steamrolled by the next Woke “mass lines” and “active measures.” These Woke operations won’t be as easy to identify as pornographic books in schools. Woke is feigning retreat on certain flanks, but this is still the Art of War.
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Mass Line
The mass line is a political and organizational strategy developed by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Communist Revolution. It involves integrating the ideas of the masses with the leadership of the Communist Party to create and implement policies.
1. The process follows three steps:
2. Gather ideas from the masses through direct engagement.
3. Analyze and synthesize these ideas in line with Marxist-Leninist principles.
4. Return the refined ideas to the masses for implementation.
The goal is to ensure policies reflect popular needs while advancing the revolutionary agenda.
Active Measures
Active measures refer to covert and overt influence operations conducted by the Soviet Union's intelligence agencies, primarily the KGB, during the Cold War. These operations aimed to shape international politics, manipulate public opinion, and destabilize adversaries.
Tactics included:
· Disinformation campaigns.
· Propaganda dissemination.
· Forgery of documents.
· Front organizations and support for sympathetic groups.
· Espionage and direct sabotage.
Active measures were designed to weaken opponents by creating confusion, eroding trust, and generating internal divisions.
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The mainstream media is still Woke. Hollywood is still Woke. The most powerful companies in the world, your children’s schools, all of academia, your libraries, your chat bots, your city council, and many of your churches are still Woke. They may all be retreating strategically from the “face” of Woke, but it’s going to take real discernment, and an enormous amount of time, attention, and focus to “disrupt and dismantle” the Woke battle formations.
It's too much to get into the intricate details here, but you must know that Woke is an eschatological religious cult. It’s a comprehensive system of beliefs and practices designed to initiate people - through sophisticated social and emotional brainwashing and trauma - into the belief that Man can become God and recreate the kingdom of God here on earth. Woke is “a unified theory… a weltanschauung, a worldview that creates meaning on the nature of human existence,” to borrow the language of Woke educator Joe Kincheloe. Or, to put it more bluntly, using the language of both Kincheloe and Henry Giroux, being Woke means we are “world builders” with an “emancipatory source of authority” awakened to the “prophetic vision of social justice” and “the view that the kingdom of God is something to be created on earth.”
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Eschatological refers to ideas, doctrines, or beliefs related to eschatology, the study of the "end times" or the ultimate destiny of humanity and the world. It addresses themes such as:
· The end of history or the world.
· Final judgment.
· The afterlife or ultimate salvation.
· Apocalyptic events or scenarios.
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It’s becoming easier for people to identify the face of Woke and reject it, thanks in large part to the many thousands of people who fought back in a time of real consequence. Courage begets courage, and we may be inching closer to a critical mass of people that put an end to the easily identifiable Woke corruption. We’re even beginning to do an OK job at breaking the cult control mechanisms. “You’re a racist” just doesn’t work like it used to. “Trans women are women” has lost the punch it once had. We now have X as the free speech, milieu control breaking platform. The fog of war and the social and emotional spells are breaking. But we’ve hardly scratched the surface of what Woke is and what it’s attempting to do.
For example, everyone now knows that Critical Race Theory – the branch of Woke that deals with race - is in schools. Or, apparently it isn’t anymore because the school board meeting fervor is over. People showed up when they saw weird racist stuff in their children’s homework and now Critical Race Theory is out of schools, right? It’s dead, right? No, of course not. The schools are still practicing Critical Race Theory on children. Their still using Critical Race Theory as the “theory” of how schools work, and they are putting that theory into practice (“praxis,” in marxist jargon). The schools are still eliminating rigorous grading standards. They are still softening and eliminating discipline policies through “restorative practices.” They’re still focusing on equity and inclusion. They’re still using social and emotional learning, still segregating students with special clubs based on skin color, and they’re still pushing all educators through professional development trainings about nonsense. The schools are still practicing Critical Race Theory on children; still using their theory of what race is and how race and racism work as a filter through which they pass all educational policy, procedure, pedagogy, and practice. Essentially nothing has changed, but the uproar has passed because the face of Critical Race Theory – things like “privilege walks” and class readings of the 1619 Project – are mostly over and out of the news. Parents can’t find the words “Critical Race Theory” in the textbook, so the “experts” tell us Critical Race Theory is dead. “It’s not in schools,” they say – which is precisely what they said when the evidence was easier to acquire.
We’ve just witnessed our 2021 “Critical Race Theory” reversal moment, but with Woke and at the national scale. People are claiming “Woke is dead,” but essentially nothing has changed. Over the last two decades the Woke have captured everything, and they’ve built a Woke Industrial Complex; a machinery that puts Woke theory into practice at all levels of culture, government, law, media, education, family, and the church. Our government is now one with “equity” coded into it. Our culture makes it seem like we’re living in a simulation because the people that create it think they can simulate the world as they want it to be. They might turn from “culture war” coverage in the wake of Trump’s Red Wave, but they’re still going to push Psychological Operations about oppressors and the oppressed in whatever form they find most useful (“immigration” is about to go nuclear). Our laws and justice system have been completely weaponized. The media is entirely captured by those who wield postmodern spells to keep us locked-into the world they feel they can force us to perceive. Education is still corrupt at every conceivable level – designed to generate critical consciousness (what those we call “Woke” have awakened to) in the youngest of children. Families are still torn apart by “the Woke mind virus,” with the Woke Medical and Psychiatric Industrial Complex waiting in the wings to scoop up the pieces. Pastors are still trying to sell us on “comrade” Jesus.
My point is this: Woke is not dead. The machine still has faith in its ability to steer mankind toward specific ends. It’s going to change costumes, using new faces to mask the same totalitarian communist agenda. Expect the machinery to sink its teeth into “material” battles for the foreseeable future. Immigration will be the key lever, but also “climate change” and “universal basic income.”
The people telling you “Woke is dead” might be doing so for many reasons. The most likely reason is they don’t understand what Woke is, where it comes from, what it believes, or how it works. These people are in for a rude awakening. They are going to be very confused when essentially nothing changes and our institutions keep bashing people over the head with their fanatical cult religion. They’ll be very confused when the schools aren’t improving now that “Woke is dead.” They’ll be very confused when the State uses “mental health” to come for their children. They’ll be confused when they can’t buy anything but electric, can’t say “No” to the totalitarian controls of the next pandemic, can’t use cash to buy anything, must use their digital ID for everything, and can’t even use a word processor to process their thoughts because the a.i. built into it has scraped everything and reported it to the authorities for “hateful speech” and “extremism.”
Woke is not dead, and anyone telling you otherwise is wrong. They’re likely wrong for innocent reasons. But some of them are wrong intentionally. They want you to think Woke is dead as the flanks pull the maneuver they’ve executed countless times before. Do not relax the battle lines at the thought of a complete rout. We The People have handed the incoming Trump administration an overwhelming mandate. That mandate includes a complete rejection of Woke – a task that will require discernment, understanding, focus, and grit. We can’t settle for the superficial victory that is the absence of obvious Woke stuff. We have a real opportunity to regroup and root out the Woke engine from our institutions, replacing it with the engine of Classically Liberal Common-Sense Realism--the engine of Liberty and Justice For All.