I am decidedly un-woke.

But...

And yet

there it is

One question raised by the woke movement, though hardly ever asked, is whether the U.S. will be able to deploy this new intellectual tool for exporting American cultural influence.

"Cultural imperialism is good when is globohomo"

Wokeism is an idea that can be adapted to virtually every country: Identify a major form of oppression in a given region or nation, argue that people should be more sensitive to it, add some rhetorical flourishes, purge some wrongdoers (and a few innocents) and voila — you have created another woke movement.

Nietzsche used to call that "slave morality", and it's not good because in practice it becomes "crabs in a bucket"

Wokery is the successor ideology of neo-conservatism, a singularly American world-view.

Not, that's marxism

Or would they simply become disillusioned?

They believe in wokeism because they are disillusioned. They don't believe in the institutions nor their representatives, and funnily enough neither does the Q people

The larger point is that there aren’t very many good macro theories of social change.

I wonder why

When it comes to the long-term political consequences of wokeism, it’s better to be agnostic.

Inb4 "but it wasn't REAL wokeism"

Bonus: Same author. A Woke CIA Will Make America Safer