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There are people on the right and center who complain about "the woke mind virus".
My interpretation of that phrase is the characterization of the left taking oversimplified positions that always villainized the actors with more power in every situation.
I must admit, I've seen enough people who might be characterized like that with recent events that I no longer believe a toxic woke mindset is fully a red herring.
Nevertheless, I am reminded of the fake "War on Christmas" that eventually turned into a real thing because of the polarization that happened.
I see the same dynamic happening in the woke vs anti-woke polarization.
One can see an opposing "mind virus" taking root among the anti-woke.
In particular, the virus is disguised by talking about the importance of promoting "excellence".
Who could be against that? If people want to be the "Michael Jordan" of a situation, of course you would expect them to have a certain(almost superhuman) level of capability and effort.
But the anti-woke mind virus works in a multi-part transfer of the virus. The second part of the virus comes from the notion that every single person needs to be the best at something to participate in the economic world.
The sum, even though the mind-virus inflicted never says it out loud, is that you have to be Michael Jordan good at something to survive. That is some Hunger Games sh*t right there (It is, thankfully, far from being true, but if the anti-woke had their way it would be).
The anti-woke equates pure survival to being rich. The only way you make it out of the various “districts” of the rural working class, the urban working class, the academic working class, what have-you, is to out-compete and destroy all comers in a game that people were forced into playing from birth. Then you can go to the “capitol” of capital allocators and be one of the people who funds these games. Again, some Hunger Games sh*t.
The anti-woke could make use of a good dose of the notion of finite vs. infinite games and understand that if humanity as a whole is playing a game, we should see it as an infinite game:
Another aspect of the cure for the anti-woke mind virus is to understand the importance of biodiversity, even in humans:
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/biodiversity/why-is-biodiversity-important/
It is in fact good for humanity for the mentally and physically challenged, the down-trodden, and the socio-economically disadvantaged to survive and thrive in the world.
The anti-woke would prefer a world where the “herd” were culled Spartan-style to have only “winners” in their herd. Eugenics-much? Remember, if there ever really was a day of the rope, we’d all be swinging next to each other–all of us have “flaws” in the eyes of all eugenicists.
There are two realities to be aware of from statistics:
Merit is more about who your daddy was/is than ever before in the modern US. So when you are having these anti-woke competitions it is more about what you were born into than it was in the 40s.
To understand the difference in lack of economic mobility in US, you need to not only look at the basic stats:
www.gatesfoundation.org
But compare the opportunity map
https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
With the cost of living map:
https://meric.mo.gov/data/cost-living-data-series
When people are trying to spend all their time just trying to make ends-meet in historically high mobility places, they are going to have an even harder time than ever before.
My interpretation of that phrase is the characterization of the left taking oversimplified positions that always villainized the actors with more power in every situation.
I must admit, I've seen enough people who might be characterized like that with recent events that I no longer believe a toxic woke mindset is fully a red herring.
Nevertheless, I am reminded of the fake "War on Christmas" that eventually turned into a real thing because of the polarization that happened.
I see the same dynamic happening in the woke vs anti-woke polarization.
One can see an opposing "mind virus" taking root among the anti-woke.
In particular, the virus is disguised by talking about the importance of promoting "excellence".
Who could be against that? If people want to be the "Michael Jordan" of a situation, of course you would expect them to have a certain(almost superhuman) level of capability and effort.
But the anti-woke mind virus works in a multi-part transfer of the virus. The second part of the virus comes from the notion that every single person needs to be the best at something to participate in the economic world.
The sum, even though the mind-virus inflicted never says it out loud, is that you have to be Michael Jordan good at something to survive. That is some Hunger Games sh*t right there (It is, thankfully, far from being true, but if the anti-woke had their way it would be).
The anti-woke equates pure survival to being rich. The only way you make it out of the various “districts” of the rural working class, the urban working class, the academic working class, what have-you, is to out-compete and destroy all comers in a game that people were forced into playing from birth. Then you can go to the “capitol” of capital allocators and be one of the people who funds these games. Again, some Hunger Games sh*t.
The anti-woke could make use of a good dose of the notion of finite vs. infinite games and understand that if humanity as a whole is playing a game, we should see it as an infinite game:
Another aspect of the cure for the anti-woke mind virus is to understand the importance of biodiversity, even in humans:
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/biodiversity/why-is-biodiversity-important/
It is in fact good for humanity for the mentally and physically challenged, the down-trodden, and the socio-economically disadvantaged to survive and thrive in the world.
The anti-woke would prefer a world where the “herd” were culled Spartan-style to have only “winners” in their herd. Eugenics-much? Remember, if there ever really was a day of the rope, we’d all be swinging next to each other–all of us have “flaws” in the eyes of all eugenicists.
There are two realities to be aware of from statistics:
Merit is more about who your daddy was/is than ever before in the modern US. So when you are having these anti-woke competitions it is more about what you were born into than it was in the 40s.
To understand the difference in lack of economic mobility in US, you need to not only look at the basic stats:
![www.gatesfoundation.org](https://www.gatesfoundation.org/-/media/gfo/4our-work/programs/us-programs/hero_emo_istock-1170938430_3200x2000_10052022_3200x1800.jpg?rev=49725b02e7314159aa08b02a90d3048f)
Economic Mobility and Opportunity | Gates Foundation
Our team works to help the U.S. economic system better meet the needs of those experiencing poverty and significantly increase their opportunities to achieve economic success.
Economic mobility is decreasing in the United States. Among people born in the U.S. in 1940, 90% went on to earn more than their parents did. For those born in the 1980s, that figure has dropped to 50%.
But compare the opportunity map
https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
With the cost of living map:
https://meric.mo.gov/data/cost-living-data-series
When people are trying to spend all their time just trying to make ends-meet in historically high mobility places, they are going to have an even harder time than ever before.