The Basis of Woke is that Nobody has Standing but the Government

The basis of ‘woke’ is that nobody has standing except the government.  There’s a reason that the government seem to have arrogated royal prerogatives, for indeed it has.  The footsoldiers of this Marxist destruction of western civilization would not appreciate being called the loyal subjects of some monarch, but this is exactly what they are.  They are subjects not citizens, and insist that none of us have the rights of citizens.  Call it Leviathan, the divine right of kings, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the anarcho-whatever libertarian urge, and it’s all the same, yes even the an-caps.  All of these movements or desires, or worldviews, whenever the eschaton gets immanentized, have a couple of features in common, chief among them that no person may be represented in or by government.  Not as a citizen.

Take the obvious, manifest anti-white, anti-male, anti-western prejudice built into every woke thing.  Throughout the western republics, the default of the western white man is reviled not only for a litany of crimes real or imagined stretching back through galactic time, but also reviled for simply being the default.  We (western white man speaking here) are the only legal target of every form of discrimination, codified in laws to varying degrees throughout western civilization through the fairly recent re-definition of racism from a trait present in people to a trait present only in the typical or default member of a society.  A country overwhelmingly white had only white Presidents until recently?  Must be racism, not just historically and not only as a consequence of numbers in later years.  Instead, it’s a complex “power relationship”, “dominant culture”, and a “structural inequity.”  They were all men?  Pure sexism, right up until today.

Even on Twitter/X, it is once again against the rules to use the word “tranny” to refer to trannies.  In Great Britain, it is now actually illegal.  It is illegal in Great Britain to “misgender” a tranny, clearly a made-up crime related to a made-up identitiy, itself the result of a mental illness, but Britons can no longer say this in public, to children, in electronic communications, in entertainment, and presumably in a psychotherapist’s office.  Jordan Peterson famously defended himself from a government compulsion to use made-up or incorrect pronouns in speaking plain English up there in famously Soviet Canada.  And on it goes — all of the Anglosphere is collapsing in the face of this nonsense for the want of more men and women willing to defend it as such.

Citizens have standing per se in a republic, and they do not in a “democracy”, nor in a monarchy, nor in a totalitarian dictatorship nor a libertarian utopia (albeit the last for a different reason).  The more pure the democracy, the more a citizen is merely a vote.  Citizens of actual non-hybrid monarchies are subjects.  Obviously the wretched prisoners of totalitarian regimes have no standing with “their” governments.  Finally, the imaginary pure libertarian farmer/gunner/writer/what-have-you has no government to appeal to, no recourse to any law when his neighbor decides to freely infringe upon his rights.  Only in a Republic, as erected by a Constitution such as ours, is the citizen empowered both as an individual and with recourse.

It is this standing which is the actual target of the woke movements.  Marxism is not an economic theory, but a method of eroding a society and its institutions through agitation, propaganda, and violence.  It merely wears a crackpot economic theory as camouflage.  This is how it markets itself to anybody who might feel that they have somethingg to gain by tearing down their own society — by telling them that they are poor, that it is society’s fault, and that those who have more are by definition evil.  This is why all wealth must be explained as exploitation, all religion ridiculous, all joy bourgeois, all actual science anti-human, and any utter nonsense is called The True Science so long as it cries out for more government.

Marxist wokism attacks this standing of the citizen by defining the status quo as bad, and other things as good.  What the footsoldiers of Marxism sometimes fail to recognize is that they will not become the new holders of power.  If they become the new default, they will be reviled as well, and if they feel that they are too diverse, or underprivileged, or oppressed, or intersectional to be treated as a default, they err.  If they paid attention, they would notice that the past decade has been notable for how previously favored groups become disfavored, and are thrown over for newly-favored groups.  This permanent revolution ensures that the Two-Minutes Hate will never want for a subject.  Yesterday’s useful idiots are today’s kulaks to be liquidated.

A Twitter user summarized a new development from Scotland: “Under the new hate crime law, people who make fun of or misgender trans people, make racial jokes or criticisms of certain religions, or criticize migrants can be prosecuted.”  My read of an referenced newspaper article confirmed most of those points.  Of course Scotland is not the only place where illegal invaders are declared literally above reproach for their crime by actual citizens who fear for the future of our countries.  Intersectionality of course means than even when those illegals are brought into the fold, only some of them will lose their protected status, with white Christian males the first to be dropped from the rolls of honorable immigrants.  Oh wait, is any western country accepting white Christian male immigrants?

Any person who approaches the center of society will become the reviled, as Marxist wokism is a perpetual plowing under of any success, the choping down of the tallest trees at any time.  The footsoldiers forget that at some point, they will be the tall trees, and that they will not have grown any when that happens.  Everything taller will simply have been already cut down.  The woke machinery does not stop when it empowers the current day’s woke adherents — it stops only when everything worth having is no longer available, when the society collapses, or is conquered, or when the population simply starves because nothing works right anymore.

Government itself is the only beneficiary of this sort of destruction of a society.  The ruling class wil always find new subjects to rule, even if they have to forcibly march ragtag groups of survivors into camps for the concentration of efforts.  You know — feeding housing, work — those things best done at scale in order to economize.  The government indeed rises to totalitarian rule but it only has to rise so far — most of the domination is done not by the government growing strong, but by weakening those whom it would enslave.  In all of the anti-status quo abuses against the typical citizen mentioned above, there is always an active agency promoting the methods of agitation, propaganda, and violence, and that agency is the government itself.  Having three branches is of little comfort when the supposed checks and balances are operated (say) counter-clockwise only.  When one branch executes a law which was written by a second branch and upheld (if challenged) by a third, that is still government carrying out its whims without reference to any citizen.  The three branches are now more disconnected from any accountability than ever before.

Woke is not a solution to any problem set, regardless of the problem.  It is a continuous revolution against the culture of a society, and without that culture, the society ceases to exist — one way or another.

This post deserves a re-write.  Probably in a couple of years.