Human Events recently ran my column in which I offer a new synonym for the term "woke." My candidate is "anti-thought." The essay is here: "The True Definition of 'Woke' is 'Anti-Thought.'"
"Wokeness" adds up to nothing more than mob- and media-enforced group think. For example, mobs such as the Stanford Law mob that I wrote about in my last post had no interest in reason or conversation. They certainly have no interest in the cross-pollination of ideas. And I doubt that they even believe in the slogans they spew because they don't seem to have the capacity to even think them through. They've merely been conditioned and programmed to behave that way. After all, mobs don't think. They can't.
Another example is below: the violent treatment of a woman who simply wants to express her concerns about the current erasure of women by the transgender ideology. A couple of weeks ago, Kelly-Jay Keen (whose Twitter handle is @theposieparker ) went to speak in New Zealand at a rally called "Let Women Speak." She was violently assaulted by a totally feral mo
b for doing so. Check it out:
This is a clear case of mass hysteria, as Michael Schellenberger points out. No different from the Salem witch hunts, or any other mass delusion in human history. The destructive passions of a mob--whipped up through academia, the media, Big Tech and many other of our corrupted institutions-- will stop at nothing to silence and destroy anyone who might speak against their ideology. Indeed, to destroy anyone who thinks a coherent thought. The woke-- or the anti-thought brigades-- seek to enforce nothing but ignorance and fear. Like the Borg, they just want to absorb you into their darkness.
So our ONLY HOPE is to courageously speak out freely and often against the mobs. This might seem scary, but it's far better than being absorbed into their insanity. Indeed, the mob has made it very clear that speaking truth is the one thing that it cannot abide. So speak up!
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