I think James Lindsay postures to the mainstream too much, but his speech at the Oxford Union, a reducio ad absurdam of the Left's position, arguing that leftism can never go too far-- because it can (and should) always go further, to the point of perpetual revolution(!!), perfectly summarizes and sources the woke position.
All discrimination, especially the sort needed to draw the line about how far things need to 'progress,' is evil. Consciousness must be elevated endlessly and if a new status quo emerges, it must be attacked too. Any comfortable position or reconciliation denies the oppressive reality that needs to be addressed.
'Woke' can never go too far because Utopia is always at the end of the next civil rights struggle.
'Woke' can never go too far because Utopia is always at the end of the next civil rights struggle.
This is the basis of the “struggle session”, creation and maintenance of constant conflict to wear down a society from within. Murray also commented on this dilemma calling is a societal fatigue, where in the battle of wills eventually everyone will be dragged down into apathy.
I think James Lindsay postures to the mainstream too much, but his speech at the Oxford Union, a reducio ad absurdam of the Left's position, arguing that leftism can never go too far-- because it can (and should) always go further, to the point of perpetual revolution(!!), perfectly summarizes and sources the woke position.
All discrimination, especially the sort needed to draw the line about how far things need to 'progress,' is evil. Consciousness must be elevated endlessly and if a new status quo emerges, it must be attacked too. Any comfortable position or reconciliation denies the oppressive reality that needs to be addressed.
'Woke' can never go too far because Utopia is always at the end of the next civil rights struggle.
This is the basis of the “struggle session”, creation and maintenance of constant conflict to wear down a society from within. Murray also commented on this dilemma calling is a societal fatigue, where in the battle of wills eventually everyone will be dragged down into apathy.