The Woke Era: Symptoms & Roots of a Global Calamity

Rather than define Woke, Dr. Faas maps the ramifications of this mind-boggling phenomenon which Elon Musk has called a deadly virus threatening to destroy Western culture.  Faas' painstakingly documented historical critique of this social media-driven, Me-Too scenario covers the major symptoms: like Woke psychiatry's diagnostic and statistical bias to turn normal emotions into mental disorders; the legalized porn provided by countless sex abuse trials; the Woke decalogue of political correctness used to cancel ideologically deviant opponents; venal lawyers, "progressive activists, " and politicians rushing to endorse the new commandments for fear of being cancelled themselves; governments, trying to keep control, enshrining DEI dictates and hate speech criminality in new legislation; World Economic strategists planning and managing pandemics like Covid-19 to stage their Great Reset towards a global dictatorship; and the increasing cruelty, violence, and sexual depravity glorified in movies, literature, and actual life.
Most publicized here was B. E. Ellis's American Psycho, which was snapped up by over 100, 000 eager readers in the first two weeks, received accolades from reviewers and critics, and quickly gave birth to a new cult. Woke's surface roots have been known for some time: such as Derrida's deconstruction and his school's all-encompassing relativism; the witch-hunt-like misappropriation of Freudian psychotherapy conjuring up delinquents from the supposedly repressed memories of often perjured "victims;" teaching that near everything, even mathematics and the hard sciences, is socially constructed; and that White Supremacists have to expiate and pay for their hereditary sin of having oppressed and exploited all others.  Equally well-known origins of Woke are apparent in the bantering ill-informed Marxist slogans about the need for revolutions to free oppressed minorities and to punish those blamed for having caused their miseries. Other roots of the Woke calamity have escaped analysis so far: like the fact that Woke post-Freudian quackeries have originated from the eighteenth-century resurgence of the age-old custom of exorcising demons in the possession of human souls, which in turn points back to its most well-known exorcist, Jesus Christ.  Even deeper roots reach down to our Genesis-inspired guilt culture born from the Fall of Adam and Eve.
The latter ultimately divided humankind into two strictly polarized groups, the damned and the saved, those living in eternal bliss gloatingly watching the agonies of those in Hell. In light of this, the Woke era comes to look like a relapse into pre-medieval barbarity.  Obvious parallels include the willful destruction of classical statuary and art by hooligans in the hire of fanatical church officials or Woke ideologues; the book-burning campaigns targeting ancient Greco-Roman philosophy or, alternatively, Woke's crusades of denigrating the tremendous advances of contemporary science and technology; as well as the yearning for the apocalyptic intervention of a divinity like Jesus Christ or of an ideologically driven revolution to solve life's inevitable problems. Woke Islamists have moved to the forefront of this jihad against Western Enlightenment values.  After two of their major centers, London and New York, as well as numerous smaller cities have been usurped by "international-law-minded" Islamists, the final outcome of this clash of civilizations remains uncertain. However, to prevent the Woke dystopia from prevailing, we first ought to come to grips with its confusingly multifarious ramifications and roots, an understanding toward which Dr.
Faas has taken some much-needed steps.