August 25, 2025
The fall of wokeness
By Kevin Finn
To be "woke" is to overzealously pursue moral purity while stifling free expression and distorting social priorities. “Wokeness" arose like a contagion from social justice activism and now struggles to sustain itself. It is, hopefully, dying due to its own internal contradictions and rejection by society at large.
Wokeness supposedly involves an acute awareness of perceived moral or social injustices, often tied to identity politics, where issues like race, gender, and sexuality dominate discourse. This hyperawareness, however, has developed into a rigid ideology that demands conformity and punishes dissent, as seen in cancel culture and censorship. In his Davos speech, Javier Milei called woke ideology a "mental virus" that threatens the foundational values of Western civilization -- liberty, free speech, and individual merit -- credited with lifting 90% of the global population out of poverty.
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