How do we reverse the past ten years of ‘woke’ public and educational policy? What is ‘woke,’ anyway, and what are its origins?
Earlier this week, I spoke with author T.S. Dixon about his new book The Woke Mind Viruses and the strategies for “curing” them. This is not just an American phenomenon, T.S. warned, but a deliberate effort aimed at the entire West to fundamentally transform its culture of ordered liberty and self-governance through reliable institutions. This goes farther than just Critical Race Theory and DEI, although those are parts of the overall strategy behind the woke mind viruses, T.S. explains.
Below are some highlights from the transcript of our interview, edited for clarity:
Ed: You’re saying ‘woke mind viruses.’ So I’m curious as how you break down the, I don’t know, I guess the taxonomy.
T.S.: So I identify for, uh, mind viruses and by mind virus, all I mean is a lethal, dangerous political ideology that spreads rapidly through a society. That’s the definition. That’s my definition of mind virus. And so there are four such lethal political ideologies that have infected the West. The first is leftism. Then you have liberalism. Wokeism, which is the most popular one right now.
And then the fourth one is very hidden, very covert, it’s called globalism. And so these are the four ideologies that we’re contending with today. And the way an ideology works, my definition of an ideology is that it’s a set or a collection of beliefs that forms a view of the world and also declares a mission, especially a political ideology. … […]
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