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| 2022-03-17 |
| By Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Forget WW3, it’s WWW or World War Woke now. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," Einstein famously observed. Much as with quantum theory, the famous physicist was wrong. Whatever world war we're currently on is going to be fought by disinviting Russian cats from the International Cat Federation and removing digital images of Russian soccer players from video games, even as Putin’s tanks and infantry keep advancing across Ukraine. Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will. When virtue signaling goes up against tanks, especially by people thousands of miles away who, unlike a nameless Chinese protester, would never have the guts to actually get in their way, then the tanks win. Virtue signaling, like most of wokeness, is all about feelings, while tanks are mechanical beasts that project force in the real world. Twitter is not the real world. Wars are a serious business and woke societies are profoundly unserious. Wokeness, like Putin’s regime or Xi’s China, punishes political dissent, but it is convinced that social shaming is the ultimate power in the universe because of how powerful it makes the shamers feel. Megalomaniacs are obsessed with wielding power over others and in our democratically crowdsourced megalomania anyone can live the dream by canceling someone else. Entire internet subcultures are based around collecting damaging information about targets and then unleashing it in one strategic reputational assault that leaves the victim broken and jobless. This sadistic social justice fetish makes the perpetrators feel righteous and powerful. It’s why they do it. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 Wokeness is behind all the Russophobia. There's no other explanation for why our policy makers bend over for China which is even more corrupt and nastier than Putin's Russia. |
| Posted by: Grose Oppressor of the Lutherans5053 2022-03-17 15:40 |
| #4 Wokeness is not a war it's a weapon. And it has been used successfully by the parties that regularly infuse money into chaos breeding think tanks and popular culture. For the purpose of hollowing out strong societies so they can be virtually enslaved. Cancel culture is the new power of coercion and Twitter and litigation over petty things is the law enforcement. The law is 'you shall not be yourself anymore, you shall be what the current thing tells you to be'. And the current thing is set by the new rulers almost every year. This makes the citizen an unwilling footsoldier in whatever campaign the rulers take up. A man or woman without his or her own voice, just the script given everybody. It was actually better if it was a religion, with some opium for the mind. Promises like salvation and enjoyment in the afterlife. Because this way all it produces are desperate, scared, chronic depressive zombies trying to play intelligent and assertive men and women. Only the countries that did not allow this to be introduced in their mainstream. Where the religion or the state or ideology is greater than entertainment, freedoms, culture or even progress will survive. The rest will self destruct. |
| Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-17 14:34 |
| #3 Yale Law has produced many crazies including the current administration's worst people |
| Posted by: Unaviper Chuns4555 2022-03-17 07:47 |
| #1 "Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will." nice |
| Posted by: Jeremiah Dingle1328 2022-03-17 05:56 |