Wokeism actually reminds me a lot of the Cult of Ashur, or the religion of the Assyrian Empire. Each city had it's own God. The Gods were literally real. They were literally statues held at the center of a city, at the top of a temple. I do not mean that they were metaphysical concepts. The statues were the Gods. The were the material manifestation of the metaphysical aspects of the city. We would call them "a mascot". But, in the bronze age, this was a much more serious cult around this manifestation of culture. The Assyrians once defeated an enemy city, and they took the enemy God from it's temple, put it in chains, tried it in court, convicted it, and then put it in a prison under guard. Literally, a golden statue under guard in a prison because it was a defeated enemy God. It was said that armies would do battle with Gods, and that the result of the battles even determined which God won which battle.
The Cult of Ashur shares a bit of interesting overlaps with Wokeism, as it is a luxury belief crafted by the metropolitans oligarchs to create a make-work scheme for the upper / upper-middle managerial class to be kept as obsessive loyalists. These "gods" are the basis of the cult that forms the cultural zeitgeist of society, and gives the elites something to rally around while also tyrannizing the poor and the rural with this same culture. The luxury belief itself becomes a cult, and seems to actually have a strange, obsessive, expansionist, violent magical effect on people. The dominant culture of the city that is most powerful, becomes the dominant culture of the empire, and the other cities and their Gods become vassals to the hegemon's God. The cultural force becomes a literal military force of conquest and domination as the cult expands and the upper-middle managerial priestly class expands their power, enshrining the power of the elites.
The Greeks didn't operate in this same way, but I would bet that the Gods were merely what the Greeks considered to be a manifestation of the unexplainable events around them. Who would be the kind of guy who is the God of Lighting? What would the God of the Home look like? Shouldn't it be the Goddess of the Home? it would be those questions that would bring these literal characters to life.
What's more disturbing is that people talking about fictional stuff has started to take on the taste of theology.
Ever get the feeling that the Greek gods were the way they were because they were originally satirical characters making fun of real people?
Probably not.
Wokeism actually reminds me a lot of the Cult of Ashur, or the religion of the Assyrian Empire. Each city had it's own God. The Gods were literally real. They were literally statues held at the center of a city, at the top of a temple. I do not mean that they were metaphysical concepts. The statues were the Gods. The were the material manifestation of the metaphysical aspects of the city. We would call them "a mascot". But, in the bronze age, this was a much more serious cult around this manifestation of culture. The Assyrians once defeated an enemy city, and they took the enemy God from it's temple, put it in chains, tried it in court, convicted it, and then put it in a prison under guard. Literally, a golden statue under guard in a prison because it was a defeated enemy God. It was said that armies would do battle with Gods, and that the result of the battles even determined which God won which battle.
The Cult of Ashur shares a bit of interesting overlaps with Wokeism, as it is a luxury belief crafted by the metropolitans oligarchs to create a make-work scheme for the upper / upper-middle managerial class to be kept as obsessive loyalists. These "gods" are the basis of the cult that forms the cultural zeitgeist of society, and gives the elites something to rally around while also tyrannizing the poor and the rural with this same culture. The luxury belief itself becomes a cult, and seems to actually have a strange, obsessive, expansionist, violent magical effect on people. The dominant culture of the city that is most powerful, becomes the dominant culture of the empire, and the other cities and their Gods become vassals to the hegemon's God. The cultural force becomes a literal military force of conquest and domination as the cult expands and the upper-middle managerial priestly class expands their power, enshrining the power of the elites.
The Greeks didn't operate in this same way, but I would bet that the Gods were merely what the Greeks considered to be a manifestation of the unexplainable events around them. Who would be the kind of guy who is the God of Lighting? What would the God of the Home look like? Shouldn't it be the Goddess of the Home? it would be those questions that would bring these literal characters to life.