Another excellent post! I think this quote somewhat encapsulates the concept.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very “kindness” stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease, is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
– C.S. Lewis
Perhaps worthy of adding is the goal of "wokeness" It is simply "power" in its evil form. The evil form of power is "Power over others." This post examinse that aspect...
"“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family, tradition, national patriotism and religious dogmas.”
Brock Chisholm… Quoted in: Davis, Llewellyn B (1991) Going Home to School, p. 69 This quote is old and the providence is well supported but questioned by some.
Of course "woke" is highly immoral, yet the think they are.
Wow, I think your whole woke description is hanging, like a set of rules, just below the welcome to Massachusetts sign when I drive down from New Hampshire. Honestly I just had this conversation with my sister who said I don’t know what woke means. I wanted to say look in the mirror 🙄, of course she hates Trump with a passion. When it comes down to it she’s as woke as they come, however I do love my sister. It’s very confusing that you must comply with their wokeness or you’re a racist bigot. And always remember you can’t comply your way out of tyranny, I think that’s the communists point. J.Goodrich
We dumped Netflix years ago when they promoted the child porn documentary Cuties. Never looked back. We are early to rise, early to bed so we only watch TV for a very short period before hitting the sack. We have been watching old series. Back when pornography, homosexuality and foul language wasn't the norm. Even so I can see the beginnings of woke even in shows from the nineties.
One thing I noticed has been common for quite some time, that bows to rabid feminism is that in detective/police shows, when a man and woman are traveling in a car, the woman usually drives. I guess they can't risk being seen as misogynistic forcing the woman to be a passenger. Also, in these shows, the petite, long haired cops are always the ones who can wrestle down a tattooed behemoth and cuff him before the male partner shows up. I always laugh, though I think it sends a very bad message to girls.
All I can conclude is that in the era when anything goes, everything does.
I've been broke, but never woke, according to the definitions provided.
What if I wanna be woke ? Can someone point me in the right direction?
SHould I dye my hair blue?
Should I walk about, looking down my nose a people who don't drive a Prius ?
Should I tell all my friends that I'm against waste, want the climate emergency brought to a halt through bug eating, and pay to go to see the little girl with the mental learning disorder who seems to know everything about the world climate crisis?
"How Dare YOU !"
Biodegradable missiles, green energy tanks, and bullets made from dog poop, are surely where we're heading.
Yeah, I don't think I will qualify, but I'll be dammed if I don't die trying.
Most of the English-language Netflix (and Amazon Prime) productions follow that same formula: Take a perfectly good storyline that doesn't require "woke", and then, several episodes into the story, insert gratuitous "wokeness", especially homosexuality. Sometimes the fast-forward button makes it slightly less offensive, but, at the same time, do we really want to encourage this garbage?
This does not seem to occur in their foreign-language productions.
You stated that "woke" started as an "antiracist" movement, but I disagree. I lived in Portland, one of the least racist cities in America in the summer of 2020. The "woke" mob there nonetheless sacked and burned the city and went into the neighboods with loudspeakers at night to order white people out of their homes. At the end of the summer they set fire to the forest around the city to try to kill as many white people as possible. There never was and never will be anything "antiracist" about wokeism. It is the essence of racism, hatred, envy, violence, and tribalism. It is barbarism that is destroying civilization and the only hope for survival is the complete and utter extirpation of this ideology and the Democrat party that promotes it.
I’m keeping this in my “reference library,” as the most definitive writing on Wokeness yet! I needed a good laugh out loud. I love you, Robert and Jill.
We find the only way to avoid woke and the preaching subtext on air is to only watch pre 2000 movies. The black and white mysteries are best when you want to relax at the end of the day, and all the Bogey films. People knew how to act back then-the facial features and camera angles, not special effects, tell the story.
I unsubscribed to Netflix when they signed the Obama's to a $70 million contract. After having to cringe under 8 years of Obama's plans to seriously undermine our Constitutional Republic and its Liberties, I knew I'd get nauseated watching any programming associated with the Obamas.
But, now I try not to watch anything to do with politics, pornography, human trafficking, and especially, Obama II, aka O'Biden.
Taking to the extreme, the concept once known as 'political correctness' and adding minority-driven propaganda including, but not limited to, the fallacies of gas-lighting, steel-manning, and straw-manning to obfuscate effective, time-tested values of good morals and ethics. The intention is apparently one of justifying bad, immoral and / or illegal behavior.
In other words, attempts to damage those values so eloquently listed within the codes of Boy and Girl Scouts.
Woke is everywhere. A very talented author I know wrote a great novel; publishers (over 100) wouldn't take it because they wanted him to change the main character from straight to gay. He self-published.
Your first mistake was turning on Netflix, the king of woke.
Another excellent post! I think this quote somewhat encapsulates the concept.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very “kindness” stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease, is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
– C.S. Lewis
Perhaps worthy of adding is the goal of "wokeness" It is simply "power" in its evil form. The evil form of power is "Power over others." This post examinse that aspect...
https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family, tradition, national patriotism and religious dogmas.”
Brock Chisholm… Quoted in: Davis, Llewellyn B (1991) Going Home to School, p. 69 This quote is old and the providence is well supported but questioned by some.
Of course "woke" is highly immoral, yet the think they are.
Wow, I think your whole woke description is hanging, like a set of rules, just below the welcome to Massachusetts sign when I drive down from New Hampshire. Honestly I just had this conversation with my sister who said I don’t know what woke means. I wanted to say look in the mirror 🙄, of course she hates Trump with a passion. When it comes down to it she’s as woke as they come, however I do love my sister. It’s very confusing that you must comply with their wokeness or you’re a racist bigot. And always remember you can’t comply your way out of tyranny, I think that’s the communists point. J.Goodrich
When we moved house about 12 years ago, it was pure accident we ended up without a TV.
The new place had TV plugs everywhere. But due to various incidents, we did not have a set.
We started looking into buying a TV set and ... after a while ... just forgot about it.
It was the best thing that ever happened.
We dumped Netflix years ago when they promoted the child porn documentary Cuties. Never looked back. We are early to rise, early to bed so we only watch TV for a very short period before hitting the sack. We have been watching old series. Back when pornography, homosexuality and foul language wasn't the norm. Even so I can see the beginnings of woke even in shows from the nineties.
One thing I noticed has been common for quite some time, that bows to rabid feminism is that in detective/police shows, when a man and woman are traveling in a car, the woman usually drives. I guess they can't risk being seen as misogynistic forcing the woman to be a passenger. Also, in these shows, the petite, long haired cops are always the ones who can wrestle down a tattooed behemoth and cuff him before the male partner shows up. I always laugh, though I think it sends a very bad message to girls.
All I can conclude is that in the era when anything goes, everything does.
Doctor Malone, sadly 😥 the "man scenes" & "women scenes" are inserted EVERYWHERE!
My husband and I find ourselves REACHING for the remote EVEN during commercials!
Haha,
I guess I'm not woke.
I've been broke, but never woke, according to the definitions provided.
What if I wanna be woke ? Can someone point me in the right direction?
SHould I dye my hair blue?
Should I walk about, looking down my nose a people who don't drive a Prius ?
Should I tell all my friends that I'm against waste, want the climate emergency brought to a halt through bug eating, and pay to go to see the little girl with the mental learning disorder who seems to know everything about the world climate crisis?
"How Dare YOU !"
Biodegradable missiles, green energy tanks, and bullets made from dog poop, are surely where we're heading.
Yeah, I don't think I will qualify, but I'll be dammed if I don't die trying.
My husband and I have a solution - we do not own a TV nor do we stream! We read books!
Best explanation of woke period.
https://rumble.com/v2lkqbk-one-of-the-most-important-speeches-made-in-the-eu-parliament.-james-lindsay.html
Most of the English-language Netflix (and Amazon Prime) productions follow that same formula: Take a perfectly good storyline that doesn't require "woke", and then, several episodes into the story, insert gratuitous "wokeness", especially homosexuality. Sometimes the fast-forward button makes it slightly less offensive, but, at the same time, do we really want to encourage this garbage?
This does not seem to occur in their foreign-language productions.
You stated that "woke" started as an "antiracist" movement, but I disagree. I lived in Portland, one of the least racist cities in America in the summer of 2020. The "woke" mob there nonetheless sacked and burned the city and went into the neighboods with loudspeakers at night to order white people out of their homes. At the end of the summer they set fire to the forest around the city to try to kill as many white people as possible. There never was and never will be anything "antiracist" about wokeism. It is the essence of racism, hatred, envy, violence, and tribalism. It is barbarism that is destroying civilization and the only hope for survival is the complete and utter extirpation of this ideology and the Democrat party that promotes it.
I’m keeping this in my “reference library,” as the most definitive writing on Wokeness yet! I needed a good laugh out loud. I love you, Robert and Jill.
We find the only way to avoid woke and the preaching subtext on air is to only watch pre 2000 movies. The black and white mysteries are best when you want to relax at the end of the day, and all the Bogey films. People knew how to act back then-the facial features and camera angles, not special effects, tell the story.
I unsubscribed to Netflix when they signed the Obama's to a $70 million contract. After having to cringe under 8 years of Obama's plans to seriously undermine our Constitutional Republic and its Liberties, I knew I'd get nauseated watching any programming associated with the Obamas.
But, now I try not to watch anything to do with politics, pornography, human trafficking, and especially, Obama II, aka O'Biden.
My own summary has been on the order of:
Taking to the extreme, the concept once known as 'political correctness' and adding minority-driven propaganda including, but not limited to, the fallacies of gas-lighting, steel-manning, and straw-manning to obfuscate effective, time-tested values of good morals and ethics. The intention is apparently one of justifying bad, immoral and / or illegal behavior.
In other words, attempts to damage those values so eloquently listed within the codes of Boy and Girl Scouts.
Woke is everywhere. A very talented author I know wrote a great novel; publishers (over 100) wouldn't take it because they wanted him to change the main character from straight to gay. He self-published.