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The Rise of Wokism in the United States
Do you think the decline in free speech culture, or people saying what they meane, general censorship, self censorship? Do you attribute that to stagnation. Is your thesis on that ultimately an economic one, or is there something more cultural or technological driving that shift? I think we have technologies of cancellation, as you mentioned. But i also suspect there are forces in history, poorly understood, but that make cancellations, and, for that matter, religious awakenings, somewhat cyclical.