Jaime Roberts
1 min readOct 10, 2022

--

You are strawmaning the Right, without really getting to the essence of ‘wokeness’. Woke is a populist way of saying ‘Postmodern’. The woke agenda is to create a new value system based on ‘Power’ in the Foucaultian sense of the word.

The technique woke (Postmodernists) use to attack inequity is to ‘cancel’ certain individuals. Thus we have ‘cancel culture’. This fits perfectly into Postmodern theory where ‘Recognition’ is the ultimate form of Power, and ignoring individuals is the ultimate punishment. The latest example was the deplatforming of Andrew Tate.

Woke keyboard warriors spend their time smashing the ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ buttons thinking they are making positive change in the world.

The bigger issue, and one that most don’t talk about is does this new woke value system prioritize certain knowledge, while deprioritizing other forms of knowledge? I think it does, and we can talk about Postmodern science, law, government, etc… There is an overlay of ‘Power’ value system over all knowledge, making everything we communicate have an agenda.

--

--

Jaime Roberts
Jaime Roberts

Written by Jaime Roberts

Architect writing about environmental design in an age of climate change.

Responses (1)