The Nowhere Men
For more years than I care to count, I have been baffled by the inability to name the nameless philosophy which even now lolls in careless triumph across all the institutions of the West: for they have corrupted cathedral and town hall, the theater, the pressroom, the salons of the intellectuals, the academy, and the marketplace.
Press and theater are the subversive strongholds, the means to indoctrinate the multitude. Town Hall represents coercive power, intermingled in incestuous union with the monopolists of the marketplace to form a fascism in all but name. Persuasive power is used, not to win debates, but to silence them, and is paramount in the Academy, in the salon, and, sadly, in the Church.
The equality of all the children of God was marred by a creeping egalitarianism, which, in the modern day, has become a gnostic form of totalitarian anarchy combined with plutocratic socialism.
I am frankly not sure what to call this new form of formless governmental philosophy.
For a while, I called it “Leftism” since the core of its support came from the radical pinko element in society, but, after the reaction to the nationalist populism of Brexit and Trump, it became clear that what was traditionally called “rightwing” was allied with, or even driving, the godless march toward barbarism.
The CIA and FBI and Wall Street and Big Tech and Big Pharma and the international banks, major figures in the Republican party joined forced with Antifas and BLM and Pandemic Alarmism and Green Alarmism and the Great Reset and tried to undo pipelines and peacetalks and boarder walls and everything else the populists had accomplished.
I now call them the “Worldly Powers” as I become convinced the motives and meaning of these forces in alliance is primarily religious in nature. The war is between, on the one hand, the remnants of a corrupted and neglected Church and her epigone denominations against, on the other hand, the many-headed Beast of the Apocalypse. The Beast offers a utopian heresy best called humanism, which placed Man on the throne of the universe, and calls Man the measure of all things.
The lamps are going out all over the world.
America is and has been besieged by the Worldly Powers for generations. Political Correctness, like Cultural Marxism, like Nazism, like Communism, like Islamism, like Feminism, and like primitive tribalism, is a “supremacist” doctrine.
Supremacism holds that there is one simple trait by which the Elect can be separated from the Reprobate.
The Elect are all good and cannot be criticized, no matter what they do, and the Reprobate are devils, and to compliment or praise or acknowledge them in any way as human, that is, to “normalize” any one of them, is treason.
The current mutant strain of the disease we might call Woketopianism. The Woketopians are ‘Woke” which is an ungrammatical and vulgar way of claiming to be Enlightened, of knowing the occult secrets of the universe, of being the Illuminati, the Bright Ones in a world of darkness.
Where is Woketopia? Where is Wokekanda? It is Nowhere. Theirs is the philosophy of nothing, meaning nothing, believing nothing, justifying everything. Hatred has eaten up everything once human and decent inside their souls.
Gollum is Woke Smeagol, my preciousss.
The Woke claim to be the champions of minorities and women and sexual deviants, but their hatred of Larry Elder, Candace Owens, and Milo Yiannopoulos show that they expect no one to believe this lie. In truth, the Woke support the Woke, no one else.
The Woke regard all non-Woke as “haters.”
This is because they find it psychologically and rhetorically convenient to accuse others of their own shortcomings, and to attribute the virtues of their enemies, like love and tolerance and highmindedness, to themselves.
The same bitter, blind, bloodthirsty hate the Marxists have toward Capitalists, BLM toward police, cultural Marxists toward America in particular and the West in general, Islamicists toward Jews, Nazis toward Jews, Alt-Rightists toward Jews, and Soviets toward Jews, is the hatred the Woke have toward all so-called Haters.
The idea, once commonplace among liberals, that one might disagree with what another said, but would defend his right to say it, has no place among the Woke. To grant the right to speak of Haters is the same as subsidizing, authorizing, blessing and spreading hate. Not only must one remove the right to free speech, delete Youtubers, close Twitter accounts, burn books, riot and burn campuses and assault speakers to prevent speech, one cannot stand silent or be neutral on the issue. You yourself must take part, for “silence is violence.”
The slogan under which this is done is that badtalk leads to badthink, and thoughtcrime leads to violence against minorities which leads to literally Hitler.
Hitler is the only bad man it is safe to criticize, since he represents the ultimate in what the Worldly Powers wish to portray as evil.
Not rebellion against God. The Woke approve of atheism and Satanism. They particularly approve of Mohammedanism, and seek ever to discourage criticism of jihadist enormities, and to whitewash their inhuman treatment of women, homosexuals, Christians and Jews.
Not mass murder. Socialists delight in mass murder: the word genocide was coined to describe the behavior of national socialists in Germany and international socialists in Soviet Russia and Red China.
Not Jew-hatred. Mohammedans hate Jews, and totalitarians, socialist or otherwise, cannot tolerate any peoples among them who have greater loyalty to their own faith or their own race than to the Glorious Leader erected on the secular altars of the world.
Perhaps they condemn Hitler for the “Kristallnacht” violence of his brownshirts, young thugs who went out, masked and armed, and rioted and smashed shops and offices. The Antifas group — who is apparently not a group, but an idea — in the name of stopping brownshirts, are brownshirts.
Or perhaps they condemn Hitler for book burning. In the electronic age, harassing, demonetizing, shadow-banning and deleting accounts from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, collectively known as YouTwitFace, makes old-fashioned book burning unneeded. This is not to mention banks, fiscal services, crowdfunding sites, and credit cards, denying services to unpersons, all in the name of truth, justice, and the America Way.
In the name of stopping “White Supremacy” and Fascism, the Worldly Powers have given a small group of politicians, newsmen, bank owners, and high tech oligarchs — Teutonic to a man — the power and the encouragement to harass and silence any black or brown skinned “haters”, any observant Jews, any persons of any race or religion, who challenges their power. Blacks who speak out are particularly subject to hatred and harassments and open violence — for being uppity.
Please understand that if the movement consists of atheist jihadists, totalitarian anarchists, socialists plutocrats, racist anti-racists, and pervertarian puritans, then hypocrisy is not a bug, but a feature. Hypocrisy is the heart of Woke.
Indeed, one cannot embrace any of the several perfect self-contradictions at the heart of the movement, without embracing hypocrisy as a fundamental axiom of one’s thought. Rules for thee, but not for me.
The fatal flaw of hypocrisy is that, once the masks slips, only the ongoing hypocrisy in their audience of followers allows the fraud to continue; that, and the indifference and fear and cynicism of their victims.
My fear is that the Woke Supremacists will not stop until they provoke an rebellion, and we take up arms. My other fear is that the general body of the common man is too indifferent, fearful, or cynical to be provoked, and will we never take up arms.
These are not our only two options, thanks be to heaven. Hearts, minds can change, souls be saved. We begin with prayer and fasting.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
