Wokeness is a political religion with sacraments of ignorance, illusion, and hatred.
Articles on the “Woke” phenomenon are appearing on every hand and the movement is steadily coming into focus. Victor Davis Hanson, for example, outlines a “Great Awokening,” an allusion to the Great Awakening, a religious movement. In a similar style, “woke” status is a matter of religious conversion and zealotry.
German philosopher Eric Voegelin was on to the idea back in 1938 with The Political Religions. As Voegelin saw it, totalitarian regimes created political cults and modern ideologies borrowed from religious ceremonies and redemptive paradigms. Where people had previously been redeemed from iniquity, they were now to be liberated from oppression.
Once liberated, their object of
devotion was the state, more specifically those who ran it, and in some
cases, they could even surpass divine status. As American Communist Anna Louise Strong proclaimed in I Change Worlds,
“one must not make a god of Stalin. He was too important for that.”
Stalin was about creating a workers’ paradise, a veritable kingdom of
heaven on earth. For Voegelin, the woke of his time set out to
“immanentize the eschaton.” ...........To Read More.....
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