In my last two essays I set about trying to give an account of what “deconstruction” is as it has been picked up and used by woke activists in our current cultural context.
I believe another term often associated with what Sarchett and others do when deconstructing something is "Word Salad". Until learning more about Deconstruction and Post Modernism I simply referred to examples of what Sarchett does here as word salad non-sense.
Very promising articles here, Substack's growing community of authors delivers the kind of original thinking I've been looking for in vain on traditional news sites...
The intent of these people seems to be to cause Mass confusion, which I imagine is to implement their own bizarre philosophies. If they can confuse the public enough, people will have no idea what is going on and will be unable to push back or even to say no.
I am wondering if a ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ approach will work. How specifically do we use these arguments, strategies, & ideology against them?
There is no singular goal. Within the movement there are the faithful, those who embrace it for what it stands for and believe in it and then there are the leaders/promoters, those who use it for some goal. The true believers goal is to right the wrongs, to engage in social justice. The leadership's goals are to uproot society, bring it into a state of chaos by undermining all ideas & beliefs that are the blueprint of our Liberal Western society. They are trying to do that so that teh current Western Liberal Democracy/Republic can be replaced with a more Authoritarian system not unlike what is used in China. Very wealthy and powerful people & groups like the World Economic forum have been very clear about their intentions to reset society. They have already infiltrated nations leaders (ie Trudeau in Canada) and openly brag about this. While for most nations this reset will be relatively easy to do in the West, in the US, the people have lived with (as they see it) too much freedom & liberty to be coerced into a Great Reset so they are using woke ideology to destroy Western Society replacing the nuclear familial unit with individuals who are confused (ie don't know their own sex) and who are scared and who have no support structure (ie no family to lean upon) .
A society of scared & confused individuals is much easier to manipulate & control than one made of of heterosexual families. While within a family members may despise each other there is a reason the saying "blood is thicker than water" exists. In the modern Western Liberal society if the state goes after someone who it designates is a troublemaker that person has their family to fall back on for support. Should teh woke get their way, by the time the current kids are 30-40 something the US will consist primarily of sexually confused and scared individuals who will be prime for resetting.
As a mom of little ones, it’s so unsettling. I despair for the future. This stuff is sinister! God willing enough people can wake up and see what’s going on.
I’ve found your essays on this topic very interesting as I have a brother who has spent his entire life arguing/living in this manner. We think of him as a kind of Marvel super villain whose power is entropy. Everything he comes near dissembles and turns to chaos. In recent years, many have speculated that he has Asperger’s or is on the Spectrum. (We did not have those diagnosis available when he was younger.) I’m wondering if there’s a connection between Wokeism and Autism?
Pedantic to a unusual degree. Inability to follow the flow of a conversation (“a conversation is a series of unrelated statements”). Unable to read their own emotions so can come across as confrontational without realising it. Will never say “I agree” because you have not expressed an idea in the exact way they would have. On a personal note, when I see how a woke person deals with someone who disagrees with them, I think Asperger meltdown.
Derrida (and Foucault to a lesser extent), repackaged the Ancient Greek sophist’s deliberate fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness. I see nothing original or compelling in his body of work. If one were simple enough to be swayed by this unsophisticated stupidity, they might find themselves convinced that women have penis’ and men can get be pregnant...
Derrida (and Foucault to a lesser extent), repackaged the Ancient Greek sophist’s deliberate fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness. I see nothing original or compelling in his body of work. If one were simple enough to be swayed by this unsophisticated stupidity, they might find themselves convinced that women have penis’ and men can get be pregnant...
Thanks for this - yep seems their unexpressed slogan is 'sillify to villify'!
Obvs you meant we 'say' (not 'way') 'think of the children' .... not much compassionate wisdom in woke grifting .... let alone active safeguarding and caring .... or dare I say it? Love.
I found a Critical Theory paper that has, in almost perfectly distilled form, an example of why CRT is so terrible: https://ashleybrookslawrence.medium.com/the-perfect-microcosm-for-all-that-is-wrong-with-crt-389528f2e884
It's their own words, their own narrative. They lay out directly how they spread the poison.
I believe another term often associated with what Sarchett and others do when deconstructing something is "Word Salad". Until learning more about Deconstruction and Post Modernism I simply referred to examples of what Sarchett does here as word salad non-sense.
Very promising articles here, Substack's growing community of authors delivers the kind of original thinking I've been looking for in vain on traditional news sites...
Excellent work, Wokal. We'd sure appreciate your help in spreading the word about our page https://sdbikecoup.substack.com/
The intent of these people seems to be to cause Mass confusion, which I imagine is to implement their own bizarre philosophies. If they can confuse the public enough, people will have no idea what is going on and will be unable to push back or even to say no.
I am wondering if a ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ approach will work. How specifically do we use these arguments, strategies, & ideology against them?
There is no singular goal. Within the movement there are the faithful, those who embrace it for what it stands for and believe in it and then there are the leaders/promoters, those who use it for some goal. The true believers goal is to right the wrongs, to engage in social justice. The leadership's goals are to uproot society, bring it into a state of chaos by undermining all ideas & beliefs that are the blueprint of our Liberal Western society. They are trying to do that so that teh current Western Liberal Democracy/Republic can be replaced with a more Authoritarian system not unlike what is used in China. Very wealthy and powerful people & groups like the World Economic forum have been very clear about their intentions to reset society. They have already infiltrated nations leaders (ie Trudeau in Canada) and openly brag about this. While for most nations this reset will be relatively easy to do in the West, in the US, the people have lived with (as they see it) too much freedom & liberty to be coerced into a Great Reset so they are using woke ideology to destroy Western Society replacing the nuclear familial unit with individuals who are confused (ie don't know their own sex) and who are scared and who have no support structure (ie no family to lean upon) .
A society of scared & confused individuals is much easier to manipulate & control than one made of of heterosexual families. While within a family members may despise each other there is a reason the saying "blood is thicker than water" exists. In the modern Western Liberal society if the state goes after someone who it designates is a troublemaker that person has their family to fall back on for support. Should teh woke get their way, by the time the current kids are 30-40 something the US will consist primarily of sexually confused and scared individuals who will be prime for resetting.
As a mom of little ones, it’s so unsettling. I despair for the future. This stuff is sinister! God willing enough people can wake up and see what’s going on.
I have 2 teen girls and we made sure to homeschool our kids to protect them from the public education system that produced the SJW's of today.
I’ve found your essays on this topic very interesting as I have a brother who has spent his entire life arguing/living in this manner. We think of him as a kind of Marvel super villain whose power is entropy. Everything he comes near dissembles and turns to chaos. In recent years, many have speculated that he has Asperger’s or is on the Spectrum. (We did not have those diagnosis available when he was younger.) I’m wondering if there’s a connection between Wokeism and Autism?
Pedantic to a unusual degree. Inability to follow the flow of a conversation (“a conversation is a series of unrelated statements”). Unable to read their own emotions so can come across as confrontational without realising it. Will never say “I agree” because you have not expressed an idea in the exact way they would have. On a personal note, when I see how a woke person deals with someone who disagrees with them, I think Asperger meltdown.
Derrida (and Foucault to a lesser extent), repackaged the Ancient Greek sophist’s deliberate fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness. I see nothing original or compelling in his body of work. If one were simple enough to be swayed by this unsophisticated stupidity, they might find themselves convinced that women have penis’ and men can get be pregnant...
Derrida (and Foucault to a lesser extent), repackaged the Ancient Greek sophist’s deliberate fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness. I see nothing original or compelling in his body of work. If one were simple enough to be swayed by this unsophisticated stupidity, they might find themselves convinced that women have penis’ and men can get be pregnant...
Good essay, as always.
Postmodernism is so dumb that even a computer can generate an essay on the subject and maybe even pass muster at some freshman level class:
https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
Thanks for this - yep seems their unexpressed slogan is 'sillify to villify'!
Obvs you meant we 'say' (not 'way') 'think of the children' .... not much compassionate wisdom in woke grifting .... let alone active safeguarding and caring .... or dare I say it? Love.