Nice. I would add that “successor ideology” is not a bad explainer either.
but what amounts to “wokeness” in “the discourse” also serves the use of being a social signal, an attempt to carve out space for oneself and gatekeep amid an excess of overqualified, wannabe elites (see: elite overproduction theory)
it’s an inter-elite conflict within the bourgeoisie, evidenced by the fact that working class representation has quantitatively declined in the arts and general cultural production, where “wokeness” is most militant
I hate the term “wokeness” but those who say it’s not real are just gaslighting everyone in the usual passive-aggressive way (e.g. “that thing you think is a big deal and is everywhere? yea it doesn’t even exist, and even if it does, it’s nothing”)
"Wokeness" is just the latest incarnation of what used to be called political correctness, identity politics, "social justice warriors".
It starts with an ostensibly noble goal of "be better", but it always devolves into empty cultural posturing, with no material critique or action behind it.
Ultimately it just becomes an epithet that reactionaries can throw at "The Left" or whatever delusional boogieman *they think* is coming for their disappearing middle class comfort.
Just another method of division, and distraction from the class war being waged upon us by the oligarch class and their cronies.
Ted has powerfully deployed Nietzschean dialectics to slice through the discursive mask to reveal the conflict zone that is class war behind the bourgeois-reactionary transvaluation of identity politics.
Nice. I would add that “successor ideology” is not a bad explainer either.
but what amounts to “wokeness” in “the discourse” also serves the use of being a social signal, an attempt to carve out space for oneself and gatekeep amid an excess of overqualified, wannabe elites (see: elite overproduction theory)
it’s an inter-elite conflict within the bourgeoisie, evidenced by the fact that working class representation has quantitatively declined in the arts and general cultural production, where “wokeness” is most militant
I hate the term “wokeness” but those who say it’s not real are just gaslighting everyone in the usual passive-aggressive way (e.g. “that thing you think is a big deal and is everywhere? yea it doesn’t even exist, and even if it does, it’s nothing”)
"Wokeness" is just the latest incarnation of what used to be called political correctness, identity politics, "social justice warriors".
It starts with an ostensibly noble goal of "be better", but it always devolves into empty cultural posturing, with no material critique or action behind it.
Ultimately it just becomes an epithet that reactionaries can throw at "The Left" or whatever delusional boogieman *they think* is coming for their disappearing middle class comfort.
Just another method of division, and distraction from the class war being waged upon us by the oligarch class and their cronies.
Master of definitions
Finally the true definition of wokeness.
Ted has powerfully deployed Nietzschean dialectics to slice through the discursive mask to reveal the conflict zone that is class war behind the bourgeois-reactionary transvaluation of identity politics.
Welp there it is. You delivered on your promise. Brava