Wokeness Is Not Going Away ｜ 9⧸7⧸23
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Summary
The ruling class is going to have to move away from Wokeness if it wants to maintain its grip on power. The problem is, Wakeness is not just some random ideology that the elites grabbed off a shelf. It contains key elements that allow for the expansion of their power while also offering a theological justification for their rule.
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I've had a running debate with other political commentators
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on whether we will see the ruling class back away from its focus on woke ideology.
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The regime's insistence on relentlessly pushing transgenderist indoctrination
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onto children has created an incredible amount of organic backlash.
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Their encouragement of the BLM riots during a pandemic
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and their focus on political loyalty over merit
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has created a competency crisis in both the public and private sectors.
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The hegemonic control over the popular narrative, which our rulers usually enjoy, is starting
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The smart move for the regime is pretty obvious,
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put the woke away and pivot to some other justification for power that is less corrosive.
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This would be excellent advice for a ruling class, but they can't heed it.
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Wokeness is not just some random ideology that the elites grabbed off a shelf.
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It contains key elements that allow for the expansion of their power while also offering a theological justification for their rule.
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This radical offshoot of progressivism is both mechanically and spiritually necessary for the regime's continued existence.
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Everywhere and always, power seeks to expand and centralize.
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In its quest to secure more power, the state must ruthlessly eliminate all competitors,
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just like any entity which desires to establish a monopoly.
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Regional authorities and natural hierarchy represent innate barriers to the centralization of state power
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In order for the central state to achieve total control,
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it must dismantle regional alternatives and collapse the emergent social structures
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that naturally arise during the formation of human social organization.
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Progressives seek absolute control so they can alter human nature
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in a quest to bring about their warped utopian vision.
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Community, church, and the family all stand in the way of the total state
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that would be necessary for the left to achieve their goals.
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Vladimir Putin called the U.S. dollar's drop in dominance
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objective and irreversible during the recent BRICS summit in South Africa
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The modern state operates on the managerial structures described by James Burnham
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Mass bureaucratic entities have become the default pattern of social organization
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reordering the way that humans interact with work,
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government, media, commerce, and most importantly, each other.
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through the miracle of efficiency produced by mass consumption and mass production.
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The need for modern organizations to handle logistics of vast scale
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requires them to reliably produce the same result over and over again,
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like an assembly line manufacturing thousands of identical automobiles.
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Managerialism is the science of operating large bureaucratic structures,
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and the techniques that the modern managerial class employ
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allow for the level of standardization required to predictably extract
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the required efficiency from those organizations.
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Universalization is critical for a managerial class
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that wishes to continue increasing scale and efficiency.
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Samuel Francis updates and expands on the work of James Burnham
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by looking at the mechanism through which modern bureaucratic organizations expand their power.
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Francis explained that bureaucratic organizations demand uniformity
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but that individual humans are anything but uniform.
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Some people have religions that prevent them from working on Sunday.
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Some communities value having large families over their ability to purchase consumer goods.
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Some cultures have norms that would prevent them from allowing large numbers of immigrants
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to enter the country and reduce the cost of labor.
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These cultural and moral particulars serve as barriers to the uniform application of managerial techniques,
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which means they naturally limit the amount of power our ruling class can secure.
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Wokeness is an indispensable tool for our ruling managerial class
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because it serves to homogenize all competing cultural and moral particulars
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into one uniform system of hyper-progressivism.
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The tenets of wokeness demand infinite deconstruction of the existing culture
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and an eternal revolution where every aspect of identity is challenged and reconstructed.
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The traditions, history, holidays, and symbols of a culture are demonized
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so they can be dismantled and replaced with a new paradigm
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that will not interrupt the efficiency of managerial structures.
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The roles of parents, priests, community leaders, and all traditional authority figures
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are questioned until they can be replaced by activists, educators, and social workers
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Organic centers of moral authority like the family or the church
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which are undermined so the mass media can deliver a consistent stream
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of ideological propaganda which will generate a uniform set
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of social expectations and moral attitudes across the population.
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Hedonistic and cosmopolitan norms strip away all remaining forms
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of natural identity and moral taboo, creating the perfect, frictionless consumer,
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Wokeness is also useful because it inverts the natural hierarchy
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creating a set of loyal foot soldiers who owe their social status entirely to the regime.
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The incompetent, mentally unstable, socially maladjusted, and physically unhealthy
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can claim power and status that they would never otherwise wield
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if they swear unshakable loyalty to those that are holding the inverted pyramid aloft.
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Anyone can rule their neighbor if they're willing to kiss the ring.
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This means that wokeness infiltrates every institution, creating a patronage network
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where loyal sycophants are granted high-status, make-work jobs
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which pay well but require no real skill set outside the willingness
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to spread the regime's propaganda and punish its enemies.
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Ideas like trans ideology capture children young
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and strip them of all inherent identity and social bonds
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while making them medically dependent wards of the total state
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This coalition forms an ever-expanding voting bloc
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who sees their very existence as entirely dependent
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The functionality of wokeness is not just mechanical in nature
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because it serves a spiritual function as well.
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All societies require a narrative about why their ruling class should be granted power,
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a political formula that explains their position in society.
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Wokeness provides a story where the evil demons of oppression
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are defeated by the righteous agents of equity and social justice
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but constant vigilance by the population is necessary
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lest the sinister forces of oppression burst forth from their cage
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The price of this eternal vigilance just happens to be granting
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increasingly totalitarian powers of social engineering
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and genuinely believe that without the continuous application
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because it's the operative narrative for global expansion.
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Our managerial class seeks to extend their grasp
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and to do so they must destroy competing cultural
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and moral authorities that exist in other nations
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This is why Starbucks runs ads about transgenderism in India
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and American celebrities complain about gay rights in Uganda.
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that is meant to dissolve these diverse cultures
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The ideological drive towards hedonism and deracination
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Our ruling class will continue to accelerate the woke agenda
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because they've bought into it on a spiritual level
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