Now I haven’t dived into what makes one ‘woke’. To me, the basic concept is not new. You treat others politely, as you would like to be treated by your own. The early Christians had one of their primary commandments to love your neighbor as yourself. They told the parable of the good Samaritan at a time most Jews did not feel well towards the people of Samar. If two cultures did not like each other and were ready to fight one another, that would be the Jews and Samaritans. Think of… xenophobia. I believe the folk here should be familiar with the subject matter.JCP wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:40 amMilitaries are working class institutions. Anyone who has served in a combat unit will tell you that. The leftist woke ideology is just destructive. No military can survive, yet alone fight a war effectively after it has been demoralized and gutted. There are patriotic Americans, but they are being actively villianized as I write this. CNN and the BBC will never understand that it is dangerous to put society through a cultural revolution--the Chinese openly regret it now--but to do this to your own military is to invite defeat and subjugation by your enemies. The road we are on now has only one direction.
Now JCP’s post seem to say the military and the working class need xenophobia continuing in order to function effectively as a military. I doubt it. I do not doubt that many here believe it. If many in the working class and military treat people decently, they are not social justice warriors enough to loudly proclaim themselves woke.
Do you have to hate minorities, to feel domestic xenophobia, in order to be a decent soldier? I doubt it. If folks wish to elaborate on it, kindly do.
There is also a claim that a cultural revolution is dangerous. Oh, I would agree that Mao should have listened to the experts rather than come up with red theories. Still, a core of turning theory is that the crisis will come and society becomes better by enduring the crisis. The culture is improved by embracing the solutions to the crisis problems.
Convincing conservatives? Unlikely. They are seemingly committed to the old values.
Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.
But there recently have been times when John described himself as neanderthal. It wasn’t a word I would have chosen, but I went along with it. The idea behind it, however, wasn’t a joke. He embraces an outdated mode of thinking. It is a hallmark of the crisis heart and later the high that the values will change and the old way of looking at things abandoned.
I think it was Shelby Foote who interviewed a descendant of Confederate General Bedford Forrest. He contrasted Lincoln and Forrest as the two great geniuses who best embodied the two cultures of that time. He may have waxed poetic a bit much. The response? “We don’t speak of That Man.”
One can cling to an old dead idea for a long time.