Wokeness Has Only Just Begun, Says Blogger

Thanks to the links at Powerline, I got to read this piece about Wokeness, by N.S. Lyons: "No, the Revolution isn't Over." Because:

1. Wokeness is a religion, a set of "metaphysical beliefs.
   
   
2. The "void of meaning hasn't been filled." There's nothing out there that can compete with Wokeness.
   
   
3. "Social atomization hasn't reversed." No communities, civic associations, "little platoons" to fill the gap.
   
   
4. "Atomization is probably the inevitable byproduct of liberal modernity." And Wokeness is a kind of desperate attempt to recover meaning.
   
   
5. The Information Revolution isn't done yet. Makes it easier to form mobs.
   
   
6. There is no authority that can "establish any kind of common metaphysical framework, common moral narrative, common vision of a properly ordered life, common norms, or even a common reality that most of society will respect, trust, follow, and collectively defend."
   
   
7. Political parties can't help because "All they can actually do is ride the chaos of the Zeitgeist,"
   
   
8. Majorities don't matter because, per Taleb, the most intolerant minority rules.
   
   
9. "Personnel is policy" and don't expect the teachers and the HRs to back off their wokey agenda.
   
   
10. Wokies occupy all the institutional high ground.
    
    
11. "Long marches are long" and we haven't even started a counter-march.
    
    
12. "Culture wars are generational wars, and the young are woke as hell." Well, yeah. Because they have been carefully taught.
    
    
13. "The youth are still coddled and mentally broken"
    
    
14. "Elite overproduction is still in overdrive"
    
    
15. "'Wokeness is still required by law." And that goes all the way back to the Civil Rights Laws.
    
    
16. "Money is still power... This Wealth-Foundation-NGO-Government Complex thus works in unison to pour huge amounts of money-power into causes that are essentially by definition progressive ones (being to affect rapid change)."
    
    
17. "The opposition is still only political." There is no "resistance on the cultural, educational, economic, technological, and media fronts," not yet.
    
    
18. "Partisanship is still getting worse" and a Trump election in 2024 might unleash an "outbreak of the Second Woke Crusade to extirpate all the Racist Forces of Evil from the nation once and for all."
    
    
19. "None of the levers of power have changed or will change hands." I.e. "The intelligence agencies; the domestic security services; the military officer corps; the diplomatic service; the regulatory administrative state; the Ministry of Information [sic]; and so on."
    
    
20. This is just like Mao's Cultural Revolution. The leaders using the woke young to beat up on their rivals. But, like the Cultural Revolution it may not end well for the rulers.

Yeah. Don't get too optimistic, especially if the GOP wins the midterms.