There's no such thing. It's never been a thing. It's made up. It doesn't mean anything. It's a formless, vacuous idea - a buzzword used desperately and exhaustively by arsehole haters who don't want to grow up, learn and accept that the world does not revolve around them. And in forcing a fabricated, easy-to-say "evil, no-no" word on everyone, to their own end, they will try to bend reality to their will and make the world revolve around them; make everything about them.
It's such a lazy yet inexplicably effective go-to word invented and thoughtlessly spearheaded by people who stubbornly don't want to change their biases and prejudices, and their limited, stagnant, complacent and "safe" worldview, because of their own egos. They are scared of being wrong - for nothing is more important to these narcissists than winning and being right - and of having to sincerely apologise, and change and adapt - improve themselves - to fit into the modern, progressive world.
"Woke", in the negative, is a sinister, reactionary political device and agenda, coined by liars, fraudsters and conmen - and by anti-intellectual philistines and po-authoritarians - who profit from not accepting reality as it is. Who rely on people not being decent and having common sense (and not receiving proper education) in order to thrive and survive.
The idea of decrying something as "woke", and other terms of its ilk, was purposefully created for societal regression, and the encouragement of bigotry and violence, that should have lessened, gone out of fashion, and ended decades ago.
"Woke" is just like "feminist" and "political correctness" and "social justice warrior" before it - ideas that by their very concept have nothing bad about them at all - they all represent human truths, freedoms, and improvements - but they have been twisted into aversive,
adverse words - like the plague, or actual slurs, which of course the hateful right wing would not object to so vehemently as "woke ideas and agendas" - by arseholes who like being arseholes and who want to stay arseholes.
And I will keep on saying this, loudly and forever if I have to:
Everything is political. Everything has always been political - you just didn't pay attention before, and you didn't think "progressive politics" and trying to make life better for everyone (oh the horror), and "wokeness"
inconvenienced you before, even though it doesn't and it never did. You're just being selfish, narrowminded, uncaring and unempathetic, and are stuck in your head in your dangerous and unhealthy hate spiral. And you are being political in affiliating yourself with the hateful, harmful side of it, or if you are indifferent to it, you are condoning the crimes and atrocities against humanity that that side is wilfully committing, heedless of the consequences.
In a dangerous and damaging "us vs them" mentality and culture, and in "picking sides", think about who is profiting from this division:
It's the hateful, fascistic party, the bad faith tools and pundits, and the capitalist multibillion dollar corporations, who do not care for humanity and the world; they only care about themselves and continuously filling their own pockets with money, at everyone else's expense. Even at the cost of millions of lives.
But according to the hateful, the selfish, the greedy, the deceptive, the cowardly, the bigoted - the worst of the right wing politically minded - that doesn't matter, as long as the 1% is happy and content, right? Keep brownnosing for those who literally do not care whether you live or die!
Though the carefully crafted illusion of the rich and privileged being happy and content is just that: an illusion, a lie. For they are paranoid and distrustful, without end and respite. They are always afraid of the bubble bursting, and losing their money and security - their ill-gotten gains granted them by a corrupt, unfair and biased system. Everything they do is a financial risk to themselves and others. Such is the fragile and unreliable capitalist system, that relies on the stubborn, egotistical, thoughtless and dangerous will of narcissists, sociopaths, despots, and criminals to keep functioning. But that bubble will burst eventually; it's in its nature.
It's these people who try to make equality look like a bad, dirty word. Because inequality benefits them and their privilege, and they know it.
It has always been about greed and stubbornness. And entitlement and insecurity. And loneliness, and the fear of being alone, left behind, and forgotten; it's thinking that the only way to prevent fear and loneliness - and to fill the void left after being pandered to and spoiled all throughout one's life - is through hate, reactionary and regressive politics, and toxic, delusional, illusionary, "safe" nostalgia goggles.
What the right wing ultimately stands for is an unhealthy and juvenile obsession with and addiction to hatred, bullying, cruelty, abuse, competing, taking away basic human rights, and "revenge" against vulnerable and disadvantaged minority groups (aka the "inferiors" of society, aka easy targets and scapegoats) who have in fact done nothing to them, and are not the cause of their dissatisfaction in life, deliberately blown out of proportion.
Isn't politics supposed to be about caring for, aiding and helping others? To lessen others' suffering? Regardless of privilege? What happened to that? It got corrupted, like everything else, in an "ever-growing" capitalist society.
Partisan politics are arbitrary. At worst they are petty and childish. They are not and never have been helpful to anyone, and they still continue to tear our society apart, with propaganda, lies, hate and fear, at the expense of love, caring for other human beings, and empathy.
People are people. Individuals who are trying to live their lives, just like you.
All this is to say: Remember to be kind.
Remember you are human, and so are other people - your fellow humans; your fellow, different individuals (and that's a good, natural thing!). Be kind to them. Be kind to yourself.
Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, for who they are.
Remember you are important; you matter, and you are worth it. You are loved.
Love will always exist, even if our current society cannot find ways to exploit and profit off it, and thus forcibly render it obsolete - render humanity itself obsolete.
I will always rather be "woke" than an angry, bitter, immature, narrowminded, out-of-touch, cowardly, and violent bigot, who refuses to listen, learn, and improve and help oneself and others.
Never be afraid to do the right thing.
Whatever the bad-faith say, your voice matters, and you will be heard and listened to.
Therapy is a healthy and happy alternative to a violent, reactionary lifestyle choice, too.
It is better to create than destroy. This has always been the way of human progress in history.
As has unification, unionisation, and togetherness, and not division and segregation.
Stop hating, and remember to love, and just live.
Now that's empowerment.
