Woke Lives

Woke is still with us:

the conceit underlying the broad umbrella of wokeness — that any and all statistical disparities among demographics are entirely socially constructed and can be eliminated with enough will and spending and credentialed experts put in charge — remains the core legitimating ideology of Western governing institutions, especially as they spiral ever further from meaningful accountability to the electorates they ostensibly represent. Even as Scranton Joe revived soothing old hokum from the 1940s, the Biden-Harris administration has tirelessly worked to embed the latest diversity, equity, and inclusion dogma and gender Gnosticism into every last corner of the federal government and affiliated institutions, including NASA and the military, with what in its own words is a “whole-of-government approach.” So the suggestion that we’re actually past “peak woke” is inherently dubious and often made disingenuously in the context of boosting Democratic candidates facing tough elections: “Nothing to see here, folks, show’s over, problem solved!” But given that wokeness by any other name is still subsidized to the tune of hundreds of billions, it’s more likely that we’re in a temporary ebb tide before it roars back more totalizing than ever.

Wokeness is alive and well...