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Excellent essay, ending with outstanding advice on eradication of the vectors of woke plague.

You highlight well what great thinkers from Huxley, to Chesterton, to Orwell, to Josef Pieper ("Abuse of Language-Abuse of Power") have said in their different ways about the wokeism of their eras: woke is the verbal bludgeon of tyrants, not a sword of justice; it is the distortion of reality by the abuse of words; it is wholly intended by a class of power-grabbers to obtain (and maintain) political control over masses of herd-like, weak-minded, low IQ plebeians. It causes tremendous transfers of wealth and legal power from the struggling, disenfranchised working class to the rich, privileged oligarchy, and it is a source of great social evil.

A very smart conservative humorist said several years ago that woke would not last because "It's too stupid."

Intelligent, thoughtful scholars said the same wrong thing about Marxism in 1917.

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Mar 20, 2023Liked by William M Briggs

There used to be that idea of "method acting." I think it means that an actor tries to become the character as much as possible. This is an extreme form of lying. No wonder some professional actors end up crazy.

Is it lawful to force a child to practice method acting?

Is it lawful to tame a young bear by torturing him in many ways, and then having the bear performing circus routines as a form of entertainment?

Is it lawful for a person to sexually abuse their own family if the family asks them to perform the sexual abuse? Why would a person ask sexual abuse? As part of a being a fiction character?

What happens when fiction has no audience and it is not fiction?

I think the Western countries are trying all they can to destroy all semblance of Law. I don't know why. Maybe to cause people to kill each other.

What if rape is legalized? Well, that would be offensive to women. What about legalizing rape only against a male, regardless of sexual identity or orientation? Probably some women would say that's is a good idea.

What if a man takes a women, forces a legal sex change on her and rapes her as a way to avoid the conditions of the statute that says that it is illegal to rape a female?

For me, woke is the idea that Law is unnatural, abusive, inhumane, unjust and should be done away with. One strategy is to destroy Law from the inside, which accounts for what we see.

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Mar 20, 2023Liked by William M Briggs

If people want to be “woke”, or any other delusion for that matter, that’s fine. The problems start when these folks try to inflict their views on others.

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Mar 20, 2023·edited Mar 20, 2023Liked by William M Briggs

I appreciate your simple and direct definition which covers all the salient cases.

Just this morning I was looking up information at the Cleveland Clinic web site, wherein I find that I am a "women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB)". The assignment is the only really real thing, isn't it?

Some AFABs are happy with the assignment, some are unhappy. Happiness is fleeting. We AFABs need to get regular screenings for certain conditions that have nothing to do with our happiness because happiness is beyond the reach of scientific inquiry; it is best we are not frustrated (made unhappy) when trying to access healthcare because then we might not access healthcare and then we would be dead.

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