Sleep-Wokers

Today’s progressive culture is said to be “woke”, meaning newly cognizant of the long-delayed re-engineering of reality to eschew anything that might offend any member of any historically downtrodden minority group, albeit without actually mitigating downtrodding. 

Woke entails the need to expunge language of tropes and memes that could be construed as casting aspersions on some recognized minority group. Words like manpower, parent, girl/boy, squaw, retarded, and many other formerly innocuous words are combed from spoken and written language out of respect for any who do not like those terms, including being parsed from classical works that have stood the test of hundreds and thousands of years. More potent words like fuck, bitch, nigger, nazi are succinct expression for common, if base human sentiments that polite pleonasms simply cannot convey with conviction, and therefore are forbidden in spoken, literary, professional, governmental and electronic communication. Yet words describing the darkest urges of the human psyche are still perfectly acceptable in conversation, pop culture, or literature: control, revenge, rape, war. 

Woke means being opposed to police function in society. Progressives typically are middle class suburbanites, with families, property, dignity to protect from violation by the disempowered, disenfranchised, discontented masses. That does not entail renouncing ownership and joining the throngs. On the contrary. As lamentable as abuse by enforcers is to any who fall victim to police brutality, even the shrillest defund activists can, in an emergency, take comfort that trained personnel are only a 911 call away. Police officers can be bad or good, like anyone, but police are workers, neighbors, friends - quite unlike deep state goons like the FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA whom the defundamentalists conveniently ignore.

Woke also means the need to redesign consumer culture to be more “Earth-friendly” by promoting purchase of corporate “green” products, switching from non-renewable combustibles to non-renewable non-combustibles for power production, embracing expensive, toxic energy saving technology while curtailing domestic current use to the very brink of austerity in order to prevent planetary destruction by climate collapse. Climate change is caused by human activity, so it makes sense to stop change by stopping human activity - something humans, clearly, would rather not do. Climate affects all, all are responsible, but not equally so. Out-of-control profit-oriented capitalism is responsible for ecosystem destruction, but individual consumers are responsible for clean-up through self-abnegation. Humans may have caused changing climate with mindless consumerism, but humans will never stabilize climate no matter how many “green” products they buy.

Woke inevitably means being oblivious to the deep state, corporate duplicity, radioactive isotopes, terrain theory, assassinations of the powerful and the innocent, media fraud to influence elections, self-inflicted false flag events to perpetuate ethnic hatred and eternal warfare, orchestrated economic instability designed for the aggrandment of the already rich and powerful while reducing rank and file of all colors, genders and persuasions to the status of cattle. Words may be offensive, but without them, everyone will be on the defensive. 

Woke also means the need to adhere to all government mandates to stop the spread by stopping human activity. In this way, being woke to climate destruction and human extinction merges with the concept of global health crisis for total societal domination. Acceptance of official pronouncements, and obedience to lockdown orders are virtue signaling of caring compassion for the well-being of others. However, woke to CoV means being deaf, dumb and blind to the illogic of the rhetoric, the quasi-scientific sensationalism, and the cries of warning from thousands of concerned scientists, care-givers and victims about the risks posed by anti-social measures and toxic injections. It’s as if the woke were asleep. They may be woke, but they are sleep-wokers. 

Reverend Doktor C. Sarian

Mid Coast Sub Church of Paranoia

Church of the SubGenius

043021