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Senast redigerad av GreffueAnthonius 2020-10-28 kl. 18:30.
Senast redigerad av GreffueAnthonius 2020-10-28 kl. 18:30.
During the reign of liberal democracy (1776-2010), America and the world witnessed a wide spectrum of totalitarian ideologies, movements, and governments, on both the left and the right, as well those not fully illiberal but with authoritarian tendencies. Never, however, did any such movement come close to overturning America’s global power, nor accumulate enough power to cause the guillotine of silence, motivated by fear, to descend onto its own population and institutions. We are in the midst of a Great Silencing, the quashing of all voices from both our present and our past. Liberal democratic America saw both communists and fascists, and many cult-like enterprises large and small, but never did any of them become so powerful as to so completely strangle the public discourse, or to so credibly demand absolute obedience to its core tenets from the entire mass populace, with such totality, as the ideology today known as Wokeness.https://newdiscourses.com/2020/09/gr...talitarianism/
We argue that Wokeness is a totalitarian ideology and movement analogous to old-style Communism and Fascism, totalizing mid-century cults such as Scientology, and the present-day totalitarian Islamism of ISIS. If we are to preclude the rise of this new totalitarian form of governance in our country as the successor to the failed neoliberal oligarchical state we have now, it is necessary that we act resolutely while it is still possible to divert it from taking up the central position in our long-term individual and collective futures.
We set forth those characteristics that identify Wokeness as totalitarian, with the understanding that its (lack of) leadership structure, which seems to be a feature of all major 21st-century Western political movements thus far, constitutes an historical exception to the norm. Historically, totalitarian ideologies and movements have not been able to take root except in the presence of already permissive environments of fading or faded authority. While healthy, functioning democracies will automatically repel and reject them outright as preposterous and immediately relegate them to the fringes of the political discourse, in those spaces where Wokeness has taken hold, not only in the United States but throughout the Western world, we no longer have healthy, functioning democracies.
Wokeness is deep into the process of filling the void with objectives and methodologies that bear the classic hallmarks of totalitarianism. Wokeness holds strategic objectives of a grand, civilizational scope that involve the re-structuring, re-definition, and rigid, arbitrary classification of our populace, and with it, the common lens through which we should see ourselves as a society. It employs complex gymnastic contortions of thought and the English language that leave the populace vulnerable to being easily herded into strict, unthinking compliance with its demands. Nothing is left to chance: Woke advocacy is followed up with a feverish societywide indoctrination campaign designed to compel absolute allegiance to its authority, while simultaneously unleashing unto the unwitting populace its brutally efficient deterrence and enforcement mechanisms, designed to close down all possible avenues of conscientious objection and dissenting opinion.
Hallmark #1: Legitimacy and Authority Based on the Arbitrary Dichotomization of the Subject Populace
Wokeness is nothing less than a project to unilaterally tear down, and to re-structure, the entirety of our human environment—this includes all society, culture, customs, ethics, and politics in the United States and across the Western world—to fall into alignment with whatever arbitrary contours it desires. What it desires is to get rid of all of Western civilization, past, present, and future, which it re-names “Whiteness”—the original sin of Woke doctrine, and to which it attaches its own re-defined adjective “racist“—and replace it with “Wokeness,” characterized first and foremost by its own re-defined attribute of “anti-racist,” hence, “anti-Whiteness.”
We argue that Wokeness is a totalitarian ideology and movement analogous to old-style Communism and Fascism, totalizing mid-century cults such as Scientology, and the present-day totalitarian Islamism of ISIS. If we are to preclude the rise of this new totalitarian form of governance in our country as the successor to the failed neoliberal oligarchical state we have now, it is necessary that we act resolutely while it is still possible to divert it from taking up the central position in our long-term individual and collective futures.
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We set forth those characteristics that identify Wokeness as totalitarian, with the understanding that its (lack of) leadership structure, which seems to be a feature of all major 21st-century Western political movements thus far, constitutes an historical exception to the norm.
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Wokeness is nothing less than a project to unilaterally tear down, and to re-structure, the entirety of our human environment—this includes all society, culture, customs, ethics, and politics in the United States and across the Western world—to fall into alignment with whatever arbitrary contours it desires. What it desires is to get rid of all of Western civilization, past, present, and future, which it re-names “Whiteness”—the original sin of Woke doctrine, and to which it attaches its own re-defined adjective “racist“—and replace it with “Wokeness,” characterized first and foremost by its own re-defined attribute of “anti-racist,” hence, “anti-Whiteness.”
Isak Skogstad: När skoletablissemanget visade sin bockfothttp://www.gp.se/1.36242108
Skoldebatten präglas av fula debattknep och personpåhopp. Ironiskt nog är det de som säger sig stå för inkludering och demokrati som ofta använder sig av de fulaste knepen.
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Frågan är mycket större än så. Vad händer i förlängningen om de som vill diskutera viktiga sakfrågor, som exempelvis skolan, möts av ett debattklimat präglat av en slags omvänd generositetsprincip? Om saklig kritik möts av osanningar, personangrepp och insinuationer?
Några stridbara debattörer kommer säkerligen klara av det, någon enstaka kanske till och med blir motiverad av det. Men det är nog desto fler som tappar både hopp och lust att delta i debatten. När det väl sker, då kan man på allvar börja prata om hot mot demokratin. Och då inte bara som ett debattknep, utan dessvärre som en högst saklig beskrivning av konsekvenserna som följer av en fullständigt urspårad debatt.
Isak Skogstad: När skoletablissemanget visade sin bockfothttp://www.gp.se/1.36242108
Skoldebatten präglas av fula debattknep och personpåhopp. Ironiskt nog är det de som säger sig stå för inkludering och demokrati som ofta använder sig av de fulaste knepen.
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Frågan är mycket större än så. Vad händer i förlängningen om de som vill diskutera viktiga sakfrågor, som exempelvis skolan, möts av ett debattklimat präglat av en slags omvänd generositetsprincip? Om saklig kritik möts av osanningar, personangrepp och insinuationer?
Några stridbara debattörer kommer säkerligen klara av det, någon enstaka kanske till och med blir motiverad av det. Men det är nog desto fler som tappar både hopp och lust att delta i debatten. När det väl sker, då kan man på allvar börja prata om hot mot demokratin. Och då inte bara som ett debattknep, utan dessvärre som en högst saklig beskrivning av konsekvenserna som följer av en fullständigt urspårad debatt.
Kübler-Ross-modellen säger att när en person står inför förestående död eller andra extrema, fruktansvärda öden (som personen ser det), så kommer han eller hon att uppleva en rad känslomässiga faser: förnekelse, ilska, köpslående, depression och acceptanshttps://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross-modellen
Kübler-Ross-modellen säger att när en person står inför förestående död eller andra extrema, fruktansvärda öden (som personen ser det), så kommer han eller hon att uppleva en rad känslomässiga faser: förnekelse, ilska, köpslående, depression och acceptanshttps://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross-modellen
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