Wokeness defined

I will define it, since nobody else can

Wokeness wokeness wokeness. It’s all anyone talks about, but has the general understanding been moved forward at all? Hardly. Usually nowadays when people talk about wokeness it’s because they hate it—they’re being anti-woke. That’s more popular than wokeness now. And it makes sense, since wokeness sucks. But there’s something missing in the critique of wokeness—even the biggest anti-woke media figures have absolutely zero idea what wokeness is. Their entire media grift is in taking down wokeness, but if you ask them what wokeness is, they just stammer. The lame fake “writer” Bethany Mandel had a viral moment this week when she was asked to define wokeness, and she couldn’t even begin to. She just sputtered nonsense. This is despite her doing media rounds to promote her book about how wokeness is bad (her shity “book” is called Stolen Youth about how wokeness is indoctrinating kids or something).

So liberal media is taking this as an opportunity to say that wokeness doesn’t exist, and the right-wing attacks on it are fake and so on. But that’s not the case—wokeness does exist, and it can be defined. The problem is that only the biggest idiots in the world ever get any traction in right-wing media spaces, so the critique of wokeness is never articulated with any substance. And this failure to do so just gives the left more confidence to keep their woke posturing going, even though the mass of people knows that wokeness is wrong (and the leftists themselves know this on some level too).

So I will do it, since nobody else seems able to. The first problem is that the term “wokeness” is stupid, and using it just perpetuates the cycle of idiocy. Where did the word come from? Some stupid leftist dreamt it up. It doesn’t mean anything. But there is a better, real word which gets at what this dumb fake word is trying to express—the word is resentment. That’s what wokeness actually is. And there has been a lot of analysis of resentment as a philosophical and, more importantly, psychological concept. The main guy who did all this was someone called Friedrich Nietzsche. I will now go through his analysis of resentment (wokeness).

Nietzsche argues that around the time of the founding of Christianity there was something called an inversion of values. In the ancient world, before Christianity, values were simple and intuitive—being strong was considered good, and so on. But with the advent of Christianity, this got inverted, or flipped around—now weakness was seen as good, and strength was seen as bad. Jesus being meek and turning the other cheek is an example of this—allowing himself to be debased was viewed as strength somehow, when it was obviously just weakness. Nietzsche called this new inverted morality that praised weakness slave morality. He thinks this is what modern values are based on. Wokeness can in part be understood as a system of slave morality.

But how does slave morality have any basis? It is just weakness and has no value in itself, so it operates by resentment—they point to anyone strong and say “that’s the bad guy!” And since the slaves are not the bad guy they’re pointing at, they become “good” by default. But it is only a negative kind of goodness, since the slaves are not good in themselves—they only derive goodness second hand, from not being what they perceive as bad.

This is what wokeness is—woke people have no beliefs or values, so they need to define themselves by what they are against. How do they do this? By finding whatever they deem to be Bad, and pointing to it, and making it clear that they disapprove of it. This is what has come to be known as cancel culture. Why is cancel culture so important to wokeness? Because that is how woke people create their nonexistent values, by creating a distance between themselves and whatever they deem problematic or toxic or whatever other idiotic words they use. They always need to keep canceling people, otherwise their own value void would become apparent.

Okay I have just explained wokeness better than any other stupid right-wing author or media grifter ever will. You’re welcome. Have a nice night.