Not So Woke

Sometimes, I'll run across the word woke online. The incorrect usage instantly offends my inner English teacher and is a sign of cultural decline. One of the hard things about being from the 80s is living in a lower culture today. The United States in the 80s enjoyed a superior level of culture to today's United States. Kids today have things like "woke" they think are real but actually aren't. Part of being "woke" is knowing things "the man" doesn't want them to know. Basically, it's another conspiracy theory, although there's a strong element of fantasy involved.

So many people are fighting "injustices" today, but the injustices are imaginary. I think people enjoy feeling better than other people, and that's the cause of the social justice fighters. It's about pride and ego and feeling superior to others. In the old days we had something called shrugging it off. If someone did something offensive, people shrugged it off like adults and moved on. Even kids did that. Sometimes, shrugging it off is called forgive and forget it. Instead of carrying around all this imaginary injustice, what if people would forgive and forget? How about, instead of fighting these imaginary ego fights, people just love their neighbors as themselves and stop worrying about what other people are doing? The sad thing about people who claim to be "woke" is that they're actually asleep.

At the end of the day, it's really no one's business what other people think, feel or do, as long as it's not criminal. If someone ever asks me if I'm woke, I'm going to try to play it like this:

Are you woke?

Of course, I've been done woke up since this morning.

No! You know. Are you woke?

Honestly? I'm not a morning person, so I've really only been done woke up since about 11.

I think I could pull that off without laughing. At some point, of course, there would be laughter. And that's what we did in the 80s. Instead of being offended at everything, we made fun of it and laughed it off.

To get back to the conspiracy aspect of being woke, it involves believing that "the man" doesn't want people knowing things. No one can deny that the government routinely hides things from the people. However, a lot of the conspiracy theories are pure imagination and remind me of a verse. 

Isaiah 8:12 Do not call everything a conspiracy these people say is a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear, nor be afraid.

Conspiracy, conspiracy. Everything this people speaks of is a conspiracy. Don't be afraid of what they fear. I believe that in Isaiah's time his country had resorted to conspiracy theories instead of facing and solving the real problems. Not being able to face reality, they were conquered and driven out of their land. If modern conspiracies are a parallel, the U.S. is in real danger of being swept from the pages of history. Things like "woke" will likely turn out to be canaries dying in the coal mine.

Have a great weekend.