Weird Notes
What is woke?
The belief that society is based on the oppression of one group by another, which is maintained through power structures that exclude marginalised groups either formally or informally (e.g. social norms, privilege etc). The solution to this is the dismantling of the perceived power structures, and anyone who doesn't participate in the dismantling is guilty of perpetuating the oppression by default.
but perhaps mystery grove puts it even better and simpler
"What if this productive member of society was actually the oppressor for interfering with antisocial behavior done by an unproductive member of society, thereby victimizing him?" There, that's all leftist theory.
"One day everyone will be as ugly as I am" is actually the driver of all leftist thought
The future is just the masses turning into automotans powered by the tik tok algorithm
Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment
Orwell was right -> schools & media
Huxley -> public is heavily medicated
Rand was also right, as you say.
We now have the perfect storm.
Did you know that Soma is a real drug? Takes away pain, but dulls your mind.
Gobineau on the racial origins of the French Revolution
Shocked by the Revolution of 1848, Gobineau first expressed his racial theories in his 1848 epic poem Manfredine. In it he revealed his fear of the revolution being the beginning of the end of aristocratic Europe, with common folk descended from lesser breeds taking over.[43] Reflecting his disdain for ordinary people, Gobineau said French aristocrats like himself were the descendants of the Germanic Franks who conquered the Roman province of Gaul in the fifth century AD, while common French people were the descendants of racially inferior Celtic and Mediterranean people. This was an old theory first promoted in a tract by Count Henri de Boulainvilliers. He had argued that the Second Estate (the aristocracy) was of "Frankish" blood and the Third Estate (the commoners) were of "Gaulish" blood.[44] Born after the French Revolution had destroyed the idealized Ancien Régime of his imagination, Gobineau felt a deep sense of pessimism regarding the future.[44]
For him the French Revolution, having destroyed the racial basis of French greatness by overthrowing and in many cases killing the aristocracy, was the beginning of a long, irresistible process of decline and degeneration, which could only end with the utter collapse of European civilization.[45] He felt what the French Revolution had begun the Industrial Revolution was finishing; industrialization and urbanization were a complete disaster for Europe.[45]
Like many other European romantic conservatives, Gobineau looked back nostalgically at an idealized version of the Middle Ages as an idyllic agrarian society living harmoniously in a rigid social order.[45] He loathed modern Paris, a city he called a "giant cesspool" full of les déracinés ("the uprooted")—the criminal, impoverished, drifting men with no real home. Gobineau considered them to be the monstrous products of centuries of miscegenation ready to explode in revolutionary violence at any moment.[46] He was an ardent opponent of democracy, which he stated was mere "mobocracy"—a system that allowed the utterly stupid mob the final say on running the state.[47]