From Blasphemy to Hate Speech (VI. Wokery as a Religion)

... and religion as a control system

(Note: this essay is part of a series.)

(Able-bodied) Richard III talks to “his” (disabled) wife. If you roll your eyes at this you are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and ableist

The term “wokery”, like “woke” and “wokie”, is viewed in our circles as rather cringeworthy. But we need a name for the thing we all know is real. It is what ordinary people around us are encouraged to believe in, and it is the only moral system purveyed by our media and enacted by our governments. You might think they don’t actually believe in it themselves - irrelevant. You might think they are about to “put it away” (ie. make it more subtle) - irrelevant. You might think it is a “mind virus” - irrelevant. You might think (as I do) that certain realities are going to make it unsustainable - but that too is irrelevant for now. Wokery is the official moral code of our time, and the only one.

But for some people it is more than just a moral code; it is a crusade, a purpose, the very reason for living and the thing that explains for them every aspect of social reality and their own emotional experiences. In other words, for many people today, wokery is a religion. They believe in it, draw reassurance from it, and serve it.

I think this is what the powers-that-be want of wokery. They don’t actually believe that a man can become a woman, but they want you to believe it, and they want you to fervently believe that anyone who says otherwise is evil, and they want you to dedicate your life to this cause, or at least to have no other source of spiritual reassurance. They want it to be not just a hysterical thing you sometimes do, but the default thought in your head at all times, the instinctive reaction you feel to anything you encounter.

Any religion requires a version of blasphemy. In the case of wokery, blasphemy is called “hate speech” or sometimes “conspiracy theory” or “fake news” - really anything that contradicts the teachings from on high. The category of “hate speech” began as a somewhat narrowly-defined concept, supplanting the old concept of blasphemy and meaning insulting people who are in some way different from oneself on the basis of those differentiating traits. Today, “hate speech” includes everything from opposing gay adoption to wanting to deport illegal immigrants, questioning Nordstream, doubting the integrity of Western governments, distrusting globalist organs like the WEF and the WHO, not believing in climate change, or thinking the West shouldn’t send munitions to Ukraine.

For every issue, there is an “allowed” opinion, and only one. All others are forbidden. Somebody who holds a forbidden opinion is regarded as a heretic and a threat to the community. Somebody who spreads forbidden opinions, or information or ideas that would lead to them, is even given the religious-sounding name “hate preacher”.

Furthermore, one “sin” is assumed to be inexorably linked to all the others; if you hold a forbidden opinion on issue A, you will be assumed to hold forbidden opinions on issues B, C and D as well, and either way you will certainly be equated with people who do. Even after you frantically show that you don’t hold forbidden opinions on issues B, C and D, it will do you little good: you are touched by darkness, so you are almost certainly lying about the full extent of it.

Your possible reasons for holding a forbidden opinion will be that you are ignorant, stupid, or outright evil, or a combination thereof. Whatever the case, you will be socially disqualified and no longer taken seriously by good people. Friends, relatives and colleagues will publicly dissociate from you so as to avoid being seen as unclean. If ignorant, you might be given a chance to mend your ways (but probably not). If stupid (ie. mentally defective), you will be mocked and torn apart by people who claim to be full of kindness. If evil, you will be utterly despised by right-thinking people, but you might have the get-out that you are possessed, controlled by an evil power (ie. a hate preacher); in this case you will be seen as a victim of greater forces, but will still be made to suffer like the possessed of old - after all, how else to drive out the demon?