
Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class
Quillette Podcast
Wokness
Wokeness is the managerial ideology that burnham anticipated. It asserts a wide variety of rights that supersede ownership and insists upon the creation of a permanent cast of managers to monitor the implementation of these rights. Wokness works better when it's unfettered by market forces, which is why univers cities, government agencies, activist groups here in canada have become extremely powerful because you don't have countervailing forces of capitalism. A lot of well educated people who are trying to avoid downward mobility in their own lives,. looking for status and relevance and a pay check.
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