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I wonder why companies don't take advantage of such rivalries. Separate the wokes from the unwokes and make them compete who will deliver first
by cblconfederate 5y ago
I wonder why companies don't take advantage of such rivalries. Separate the wokes from the unwokes and make them compete who will deliver first
- tachyonbeam 5y agoHopefully the market will eventually sort it out.
- w0de0 5y agoSmarter people - the type that make good engineers who’d deliver early - think critically about everything, not just their job. What you think of as “woke” is often composed of the compassionate, deeply reasoned ideology that such a smart person creates. It acts, practically, as a theodicy, something any coherent non-nihilistic worldview requires. Similarly, many smart engineers arrive at opposing world views with less emphasis on the problem of evil and more on a pure rational understanding of the nature and history of society. These two clever camps, admixed with America’s ideological chaos, rarely see one another clearly. The rationalists think the “woke” people are idiots for engaging with irrational intangibles of identity, and the woke people think the rationalists are cruel for refusing to admit any place for subjective experience in their expectations and understanding of the world around them. I do think the rationalists miss rather more of reality; we are not in a Greg Egan novel. But the wokeists are ignorant of the spectre of ethnic conflict in human history, of the evil foreshadowed in glorifying identity and subjective experience.
- MillenialMan 5y agoI don't think they're fighting because they hold differing misconceptions. Politics is a bar fight, you won't change people's minds by giving them information because it's not about information. If it was, then the information exchanged in political arguments would actually settle disagreements.