Can the word “Woke” be used?
In itself, the question has an obvious answer. As in any language, any word in the vocabulary can be used, as long as the vocabulary is shared. If the intent is to indicate something, or to transfer specific information, and it works (taking into account the fact that because of Shannon it is the person who receives the message who decodes it, and not the person who sends it), you can definitely do it.
The problem is that lately the word "woke" has definitely become a special word, like the word Negro, and others that should be banned because they constitute a thought crime . Thoughtcrime is a concept introduced by George Orwell in his book, 1984, and consists of having thought something that one should not have thought. Removing words from the dictionary, in fact, served to prevent people from formulating criminal, or at least forbidden, thoughts.
What is the history of this word? The problem is that when the word was born, it was intended to mimic the "Red Pill" of the Alt Right world, and to indicate a person whose thinking was so enlightened and progressive that he could define himself, among others – as sleeping and therefore not criticizing and they don't think – considered the only one awake in a sleeping world.
And so far so good, in the sense that initially being Woke was experienced with pride. The trouble is that then some ideological sects arrived, which grew up in the shadow of closed groups, of "safe spaces", of American humanistic faculties. I mean those where the fee limits use only to very rich people.
So, as time passed, we got to the point that by “woke” we mean a person like this:
And you understand that no matter how proud you may be of your intellect, being lumped in with an idiot like that isn't exactly what you love most. “Woke” has thus become a very common derogatory on the right, because when you hear one of these characters speak, you certainly cannot hope to be confused with them.
This is the story of a failure: a movement that set out to wake up the world, only to find itself faced with people who laugh at them for arguing bullshit that is impossible to sustain and remain serious in the meantime.
In short, it's as if tomorrow your name would become the equivalent of "imbecile". You're an Antonio, they'll say, and then they'll laugh. Ha ha ha! Look what an Antonio that is! Antonio really talks bullshit.
The fact of having become ridiculous if not pathetic, simply by being themselves to the nth degree, and the ideological failure that this underlies, means that, in order not to think about what went wrong, the former "Woke" hate those who use the word “woke”.
And therefore they would like to ban it.
An argument they often use is that Woke is the word people use for anything they don't like. It's a topic I can relate to, being a former 14 year old myself.
For about 40 years, when you don't think like certain people, you're a "fascist". And when you think that the guy in the video above is a male trying to be Frank'n'Further in his parish's mid-August play, you are "homophobic". And if you thought that a fifteen year old who ended up in prostitution trafficking should be helped and protected, rather than splashing her in the newspapers, you were a "Berlusconi". And if today you think that perhaps Israel is exaggerating, then you are “anti-Semitic”. And if you think that there is no need to make war on Russia, then you are "Putin's". If you think that children should not drown like rats in the Mediterranean, then you are a “Do-gooder”.
So the argument "you call everything you don't like woke" doesn't impress me, precisely because it simply indicates an extremely polarized situation, and because I've heard it used for 40 years.
LOLLO,
LOLOLLO,
LOLOLLO LOLLO LOLLO.
I quote myself:
A people becomes a mass when, faced with any topic, it divides into two factions, one fiercely opposed and one fiercely in favor.
A mass is nothing other than a very polarized people.
And for this reason this argument CANNOT work: the Woke ideology is the daughter of a polarized world, or if you prefer it is the extreme polarization of a certain political area. We cannot destroy the use of the term with the meaning of "dialectically ridiculous extremist", attributing it to the fact of containing the dialectics of polarization. It's obvious that it contains it.
Indeed, if it were true that I refer to anything I don't like as "Woke", it would give the word Woke the title of extremism, because if EVERYTHING that I find evil and wrong is Woke, then the word woke is like “Satan”, or “Hell”, or “Antichrist”: a little, so to speak, extreme.
But the problem is that I'm not using "Woke" as "Evil" or "Wrong", I'm using it as a symbol of Americanism, of that superficial, ignorant and ridiculous Americanness that lately, in polarization, has found a way to go beyond the limit of the pathetic, to the point of causing a sensation that the Germans call fremdschämen .
That feeling you get when a person you know, or with whom you empathize, makes a fool of himself in public. Shame on behalf of third parties.
The concept, therefore, is that when I said "go woke, go broke", I simply clarified what I think of a certain current of thought: it is ridiculous, pathetic, to the point of arousing a feeling of shame in those who look at it.
The problem of the mass as a polarized people is, moreover, often misunderstood. In the sense that those who rely on one extreme generally think they are obtaining something like an identity, but do not realize that they are classifying themselves as one of the two extremes of a mass.
And a mass, or rather a polarized people, cannot identify anyone because nothing changes. If you look at polarized people, the more polarized they become, the closer the percentages get to 50%/50%, both in an electoral and statistical sense.
Why'? Because there is no content in a polarized society, so people arrange themselves in a 50%/50% pattern, exactly as you would do by tossing a coin in the air. In a mass there is no reason to be on one side rather than the other, if it existed there would not be an electoral percentage around 50%/50%. One reason must prevail over the other, or it was chosen at random , because a 50%/50% choice, even if it had reasons, would be mathematically indistinguishable from a random choice.
When I hear that a politician won by a few votes, that is, I already know that none of his factions had a program, and the voters thus chose at random.
When I hear very rigid distinctions being made between “Woke” and “Alt Right”, and I notice that in the end the probability of meeting one or the other is equal, I know very well that neither of them has any argument.
The idiot from the first video, personally, I liquidate him like this
- I'm non-binary
- I don't understand, are you non-binary, yes or no?
- Yes'
- Then you are binary
and it is not a boast: two mutually exclusive symbols are – again because of Shannon – the minimum necessary to obtain information. If there are not at least two mutually exclusive symbols, i.e. the principle of non-contradiction, or of the excluded third, there is no information. The word “non-binary”, that is, indicates something that is meaningless. He has no information.
If you are non-binary, you are nothing. 50%/50% pure. There's no information.
And that's the whole point of Woke culture, and the society it underlies. It does not produce information. There's no meaning.
And if you pay attention, we no longer see anything new coming from polarized societies.
Let's get back to the bomb.
“Woke” indicates only one of the extremes of a society completely devoid of content, information, meaning. The other extreme is in exactly the same condition. Blaire White, in the videos above, is simply the other extreme. Neither of the two extremes has arguments, information, contents.
Once this is said, obviously the ridiculous side emerges in both cases. And a pathetic one too. (White has a sort of arsenal at home. The idiot doesn't realize that by being able to wield a maximum of one or two weapons, the rest of the weapons – about 20 – will remain available to a possible attacker, or to a large group unless you remove them from the wall and lock them in a safe).
Woke is nothing more than a word created to indicate an embarrassing act of political extremism, and as such it can be used, even as a synonym for "Americanata", and the only ones who feel annoyed are those who are afraid of being confused with those characters .
Why they have this fear is not for me to judge.
You can do it.
Uriel Fanelli
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