The Coming Woke Catastrophe: A Critical Examination of Woke Culture

by Chris Heitzman

Overview

Woke culture sells itself as the great progressive awakening of our time. Its proponents and followers believe that wokism is spreading love, defeating hate, and creating a better world without oppression of any kind. Those who refuse to subscribe to woke culture are dismissed as hateful people who must stand for the opposite of what woke culture stands for. Increasingly, anyone who questions the woke message is shouted down, de-platformed, and even cancelled. No wonder people are increasingly queuing up to be seen as woke, and to adopt its language. Who would stand against more love and less hate? And who would want to be cancelled? But beyond the superficial message, is there something less attractive about woke thinking? The Coming Woke Catastrophe is a timely exposé of what woke culture really is. It examines whether wokeism aligns with its own superficially attractive labels, or whether it is something rather darker that we all ought to be challenging rather than mindlessly adopting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680537901
Publisher:	Academica Press
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Chris Heitzman has been a lawyer in private practice for the past 15 years and a keen observer of social and political affairs.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: the world according to the woke 1

2 Woke language: the new definitions of love and hate 9

3 The fallacy of Utopia 17

4 'My truth' in place of objective truth 27

5 The death of reason, intelligent thought and debate 35

6 Seeing discrimination and oppression in everything 47

7 Fanatical purity's feebleness 57

8 Woke culture's use of fear: 'cancel culture' 61

9 The censorship of news and annihilation of free speech 71

10 Problem blindness and the collapse of standards 77

11 'You are enough': the enemy of self-awareness and improvement 83

12 Humour to the slaughter: the (wrongly) accused apparatus of 'haters' 91

13 The loneliness of empty love 99

14 Virtue signalling: the smug delusion of holiness by association 109

15 Fairness re-defined as blanket uniformity 117

16 Loving each other as a descent into hubris 125

17 Lies and deceit: the ideology exposed as mere labelling to suit its proponents' own ends 133

18 A short story: Utopia or dystopia? 141

19 Reasons for the madness: the new religion, and its other causes 149

20 Conclusion: the cost of being down a rabbit hole and in an echo chamber 153

Index 165