TRADEOFFS DO EXISTSeveral things are true at the same time.(1) First, woke is cancer, and US universities are one of the primary sources of this cancer. They are the furthest left organizations in the world, and still radically out of sync with the people who fund them. This just came out in Nature:(2) So, the use of state power against wokeness is probably the only way to course correct, because academic wokeness is funded by the state. State power could be like chemotherapy against the cancer.(3) However, ...

Remember, communism was the god that failed. Just like wokeness, the far left tried replacing faith in G-o-d with faith in G-o-v.Yes, it’s true that communism is centralized left and wokeness is decentralized left, but for the purposes of this discussion those are details. Both doctrines elevated the State over God as the central force that should always do something.For example, think about how a woke mocks “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy in favor of the ostensible practicality of “passing a law.” O ...

🎯Paul Graham (@paulg):Wokeness will seem such a joke in retrospect that many people won't believe it was ever a serious problem. Even many of the participants will forget. But it really was a big problem. ...