Food for thought in your essay. Seeing wokeness as a religion makes sense; my take is somewhat different in that I see it as a loss of basic rationality as part of what's probably (certainly?) an attack on our constitution and on liberty, coming from all sides.
Which brings me to comment on Mattias Desmet's recent essay, which you commented on. https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/censorship-in-a-materialist-world/comments I no longer comment on Desmet's substack-- in fact I rarely read it-- because I strongly disagree with his fundamental attack on Enlightenment reason and his characterization of the origin of totalitarianism as in the mechanistic thinking of the people, derived from Enlightenment reason. I have a different view: totalitarianism arises from censorship and its cousin, propaganda, as these are deliberately imposed on the population in a conspiracy to do so. Then, so-called mass formation follows, but this is induced and not more-or-less lurking in the background waiting to emerge from some trigger. We can apply these two takes on totalitarian thought to what happened during Covid: was High Covid an eruption of mass formation triggered by a virus that we, the people, amplified out of proportion; or was it deliberate and planned 24/7 fear porn imposed on the people with the goal of creating a fearful mass formation, easy to manipulate? Are people really the mechanistic thinkers that Desmet says we are?
"When Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define what a woman is, she signaled her adherence (“wokeness”) to the new state faith." No, she adheres to science, as opposed to you, who understands NOTHING about the subject matter: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
Did you learn this during your studies for your "degree in political science" or while "readings dozens of books about it" too? John, please stop writing utter nonsense. No one reads it anyways.
You make a compelling case that Wokeness/Social Justic3 is a religion and therefore has no place in public schools and in government
Food for thought in your essay. Seeing wokeness as a religion makes sense; my take is somewhat different in that I see it as a loss of basic rationality as part of what's probably (certainly?) an attack on our constitution and on liberty, coming from all sides.
Which brings me to comment on Mattias Desmet's recent essay, which you commented on. https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/censorship-in-a-materialist-world/comments I no longer comment on Desmet's substack-- in fact I rarely read it-- because I strongly disagree with his fundamental attack on Enlightenment reason and his characterization of the origin of totalitarianism as in the mechanistic thinking of the people, derived from Enlightenment reason. I have a different view: totalitarianism arises from censorship and its cousin, propaganda, as these are deliberately imposed on the population in a conspiracy to do so. Then, so-called mass formation follows, but this is induced and not more-or-less lurking in the background waiting to emerge from some trigger. We can apply these two takes on totalitarian thought to what happened during Covid: was High Covid an eruption of mass formation triggered by a virus that we, the people, amplified out of proportion; or was it deliberate and planned 24/7 fear porn imposed on the people with the goal of creating a fearful mass formation, easy to manipulate? Are people really the mechanistic thinkers that Desmet says we are?
In any case, I wrote quite a bit on Desmet, in several essays. Here's one: https://jimreagen.substack.com/p/on-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism
Amen. Would you consider filling an amicus brief in a Canadian case with essentially this content.
Thank you for your post John. The battle of our times.
"When Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define what a woman is, she signaled her adherence (“wokeness”) to the new state faith." No, she adheres to science, as opposed to you, who understands NOTHING about the subject matter: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
Did you learn this during your studies for your "degree in political science" or while "readings dozens of books about it" too? John, please stop writing utter nonsense. No one reads it anyways.