Woke is a modern form of communism. It begins with social discontent. People who feel dissatisfied or lack meaningful work are drawn to ideologies that promise moral purpose and improvement of society. Ideologists redirect this dissatisfaction toward those perceived to have more, framing redistribution as justice.
The ideologists are well meaning people with resources who are either too lazy or don’t know how to run a business and instead of giving people jobs give them ideas. Now they have found purpose all of a sudden.
There are two ways of improving society. One is entrepreneurial creation, which generates new value through free enterprise. It makes something from nothing. Moving atoms is the strong force. Very difficult to do. The ideologists don’t know how to do the difficult things and don’t wanna do them. The other is redistribution, which moves existing resources from one group to another. Communism prioritizes redistribution over creation.
The recurring features of communism are restriction of free speech, restriction of private enterprise, suppression of dissent, use of coercion or terror, and rewriting of history. The pattern follows a sequence: speech is limited, economic freedom is curtailed, repression escalates. Then the ideologists use the dissatisfied as cat’s pow to start killing people.
Looks familiar? Terror of random crazies roaming the streets and knifing people, weak minded crazies assassinating presidents but it starts with people walking out of grocery stores with bags of stuff without paying. Then is locking up the toothpaste behind thick glass. And then come government run stores. I have seen it, I used to press my nose to the glass on stores with goods locked behind cages and I used to line up 4 am in front of government stores to buy milk.
I remember in school we had to read papers mocking the imperialist west. I remember a US governor mocking Tesla that their stock is going down.
Contemporary woke ideology shows this pattern, they locked people up during Covid, started shutting them up and every dissent in speach was destroyed, then curtailed business, then the riots started and people stormed my grocery store in Chelsea. I saw this as the proletariat revolution, the ideologists tested this in the US. Now they have a government run store in New York City.
They have already started executing business people using the vulnerable as cats paw.
Wouldn't it be great if someone can make a great business, treat people well and pay them a nice wage? But this is so difficult to do, most business people will tell you it’s like splitting atoms or eating glass. The hope is, I believe, the next round of automation to make this easier, to make enterprise more productive, energy extraction more effective and less glass eating.