It seems like every "woke" friend and acquaintance I have spends an unhealthy amount of time online, posting indignant memes on Instagram. Those who consider themselves Christians post LOTS of criticisms aimed at fellow believers who are not woke enough.
Have you noticed the same?
Recently I watched an interview of a young lady from South Africa, Zandile Powell, on the Triggernometry YouTube channel.
She had a lot to say about how her exposure to Critical Race Theory at Cambridge messed up her thinking. The victimhood mindset it promoted eventually left her suicidal. It's worth a listen.
In the middle of the conversation, Powell made an observation which struck me as insightful:
She said that young wokesters, in insisting the world conform to their "identity" and opinions, are bound to be forever frustrated by reality and its daily face to face interactions with regular people.
THIS, she says, fuels a woke retreat to the internet - where they can find plenty of kindred spirits and have their identities and ideas affirmed and reaffirmed.
I think Powell has a point. The internet is much more accommodating of fantasies, victimhood, and virtue signaling than the real world is.
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