Good stuff. I've thought for some time that this is a fundamentalist religion. You compare it to evangelical Christianity but it seems to me that's more than a comparison. As an English man, I'm struck by how much wokeness resembles American puritanism. In fact, an American friend told me a while back that many of the centres of historical puritan activity in the US (Boston, for example) were today's centres of wokeness. I think we could usefully say that this is not merely 'similar' to the most cultish forms of Christianity, but is a rebirth of it. To my mind, woke ideology resembles the Sermon on the Mount stripped of love, forgiveness or God.
An extraordinary piece, Rhyd. I have been working on broadly the same kind of thing using concepts such as memes (the secular term), and egregores and thought forms (their psychic equivalents) existing in a "psychic ecology." You've added some depth to this work of mine and opened up some new insights, for which I thank you.
Wow. Yes, recently lost a friend to this madness. She gave me a book about anti-racism, which had so much gaslighting language in it (every non-POC person is inherently racist, to be in denial of this is racist,etc) it boggled my mind that my friend could agree with it and push this rhetoric on me. Even more confusing because i'm mixed and she's white lmao. What's worse is that when I told her that this goes completely against my values, she said she too had a strong reaction of anger but that she forced herself to see from that point of view because she wanted to do the "right thing". That was when I knew the woke left is a cult. Sigh.
One nice thing about being loner, is that I rarely get caught up in mass things. I am quite comfortable being the outsider and have absolutely no desire to fit in any crowd.
Good stuff. I've thought for some time that this is a fundamentalist religion. You compare it to evangelical Christianity but it seems to me that's more than a comparison. As an English man, I'm struck by how much wokeness resembles American puritanism. In fact, an American friend told me a while back that many of the centres of historical puritan activity in the US (Boston, for example) were today's centres of wokeness. I think we could usefully say that this is not merely 'similar' to the most cultish forms of Christianity, but is a rebirth of it. To my mind, woke ideology resembles the Sermon on the Mount stripped of love, forgiveness or God.
An extraordinary piece, Rhyd. I have been working on broadly the same kind of thing using concepts such as memes (the secular term), and egregores and thought forms (their psychic equivalents) existing in a "psychic ecology." You've added some depth to this work of mine and opened up some new insights, for which I thank you.
Wow. Yes, recently lost a friend to this madness. She gave me a book about anti-racism, which had so much gaslighting language in it (every non-POC person is inherently racist, to be in denial of this is racist,etc) it boggled my mind that my friend could agree with it and push this rhetoric on me. Even more confusing because i'm mixed and she's white lmao. What's worse is that when I told her that this goes completely against my values, she said she too had a strong reaction of anger but that she forced herself to see from that point of view because she wanted to do the "right thing". That was when I knew the woke left is a cult. Sigh.
One nice thing about being loner, is that I rarely get caught up in mass things. I am quite comfortable being the outsider and have absolutely no desire to fit in any crowd.