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At least in the Boswash (the corridor of East Coast establishment power running from Boston to Washington), using January to make public predictions about the year ahead is an ironclad tradition. Usually these predictions end up being completely wrong, because no one here has any idea what they’re talking about. I hope that holds true in my case, because I want to use my mandatory annual forecast to dump a few gallons of cold, contrarian water on what seems to have recently become a fashionable prediction: that the “woke” ideological revolution roiling the West has peaked and will soon be in full blown retreat.
It isn’t, argues “analyst and writer” N.S. Lyons. Thorough, thoughtful, persuasive, disturbing, depressing if true. The whole article here, probably free…
ADDED: I’ve recently noted some U.K. commenters (Peter Hitchens and Toby Young) saying that we may be winning battles against the craziest of the woke, but we’re losing the war. Lyons’ piece just gives more reasons to believe that. Though it’s just so depressing if true. For sure there are kernels of truth and sense in wokeness. But there’s a whole lotta loopy crazy stuff. Stuff which damages the western enlightenment project, demeans science and damages democracy and our international competitiveness. Ruins careers for no decent cause, save extreme wokeness, deployed mercilessly
Another thought: Lyons suggests one of the reasons for the Woke movement is that it’s a secular religion filling a void left by the decline of the church. What would we prefer? Wokeness or Christianity? Me, I’m an atheist from forever, but give me a church any day, than an enraged mob worshipping @Jack Twitter. Just as I’d rather see churches filled than converted to mosques.
