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Is the author perhaps overcomplicating the explanation on how 'wokeness' captured so many priesthoods, by invoking complex memetic virality? E.g. Marxism was ve
by like_any_other 2y ago
Is the author perhaps overcomplicating the explanation on how 'wokeness' captured so many priesthoods, by invoking complex memetic virality? E.g. Marxism was very effective at capturing priesthoods in China and Russia (e.g. Lysenkoism) because it was politically powerful, as well as morally - it was considered immoral, even treasonous, to not be communist.
In the same way, modern Western morality is based on anti-racism, and wokeness is merely its next logical step.
- nthingtohide 2y agoCan we apply Ising models used to explain ferromagnetism to how opinions get formed in crowds?
- bilbo0s 2y agoThe point was that there are too many people like you out in society in quasi-religious political groupings that adhere less to natural reason and more to ideological 'scriptures'. 'Scriptures' like woke-ness, or anti-woke-ness. You're clearly the anti-woke-ness jihadi type, but the idea is the same. You have effectively gone out immediately after reading the article and proven the article's larger point. It makes responding to you awkward, since you appear to be unaware of how your comment validates so many of the article's larger implications in a way that you clearly did not intend. So most of the people interacting with this thread are just downvoting you in the hopes that your comment will disappear. They'd just as soon not have that uncomfortable conversation with you where they point out that your anti-woke-ness is as cringe as the woke-ness you're decrying.
- like_any_other 2y ago> You have effectively gone out immediately after reading the article and proven the article's larger point. You must misunderstand my position, because I don't really disagree with the article overall - it seems plausible to me. Just that it uses an over-complicated explanation for one of its points.