> He doesn’t even attempt to touch on the actual origins in the essay however Because he's not talking about the terms original meaning. Plenty of people are r

> He doesn’t even attempt to touch on the actual origins in the essay however Because he's not talking about the terms original meaning. Plenty of people are reading the title thinking he's digging into the etymological origins of the term. He's talking about the origins of the ideas that contemporary people call "woke". It's not an omission. Paul explicitly clarifies what he's talking about near the top of the piece. You and other readers simply wanted him to write about a different topic entirely.