I have been thinking a lot about the woke mental rot that is spreading worse than any virus I can think of. I wrote a post about "Woke Privilege" earlier today.

I didn't want to write this post because it is just more in the same vein of thought. The problem is that it won't quit dancing around in my mind. I must write it in order to silence it so I can move onto other things.

I have considered a new type of disaster in the world. We have terms like Earth Quakes, Plagues, Insurrections, Hurricanes, Civil Wars, Rebellions, etc.

I have decided there is a new disaster and I call it...

A Wokening...

It is when a large portion of the society starts pushing woke ideology. It is not to be confused with being awake because it is nothing of the sort. Being awake can sometimes be synonymous with "becoming aware".

Being woke on the other hand is having enough free time and lack of challenge that you must seek things to notice.

You must seek out causes to champion.

You must identify things that you can point out as being bad.

You must identify things that MIGHT offend someone and yell about them and go on a crusade to stop them...

What is it?

It is a symptom I think of when society is providing easily for the needs of most people. They do not need to struggle yet there is usually that desire to be part of something or to simply not be bored. There is the desire to be able to say you participated and pursued something.

Aspects of woke mentality involve hyper focus on what in any other time in history would be very trivial issues.

It also accentuates virtue signaling about your pursuit to stomp out what in any other time would be mostly shrugged off and ignored.

In virtue signaling you essentially say "Look at me! I'm fighting bad people!"

In this current era we began to put emphasis on what we call micro-aggressions. That is nothing more than a mental injection of woke nonsense into the minds of the young people seeking an education. Now they too can go forth and seek for things to be offended by. If they themselves are not offended then they can seek things that they think other people might be offended by.

Then they can get some foolish notion that being offended should be stopped at all cost.

The problem is being offended is actually a choice. People choose in their own minds whether to be offended or not. They also make the choice of what to do about it. In most times in history people learn to shrug off petty/trivial issues. This was a sign of maturity.

These days doing anything that offends someone is treated like a high crime.

There is a problem. Not only is it trivial nonsense but, people can choose to be offended by anything.

It turns the woke into roving bands of people that thrive on the drama of being offended and stomping out offenders. If things they have stated offend them cannot be found don't be concerned because they can find something else to be offended by no matter how insignificant and trivial.

They will turn it into something that they amplify as though it is akin to having a limb cut off and dying of poison...

Why do I call it a disaster?

Think of all of that wasted mental energy focused on the trivial. Think of all of that wasted energy focused on looking for things to be upset about. Think of how poor creations will be if those who normally would create have large portions of their mental effort focused on spreading this mental rot.

What to do about it?

I only know one thing. Call it out. Point out how trivial and absurd it is to focus on such things. Suggest maybe instead of looking for things to find offensive they instead create things that help people, feed people, and provide entertainment that doesn't tell other people to be offended as well.