{"id":4025,"date":"2023-07-05T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:24:55","slug":"its-time-to-woke-up-confront-wokeness-wherever-you-encounter-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4025","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to \u2018Woke Up\u2019 & Confront Wokeness Wherever You Encounter It"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/confront-woke-wokesness\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"woke\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to woke up people. What I mean is, when you hear lies and half-truths, speak up and confront them. Don\u2019t be silent. Don\u2019t let political correctness a\/k\/a wokism a\/k\/a Stalinism rein.<\/p>\n

There is a new book out called How To Save the West, by Spenser Klavan, which is about the current state of wokeness and how we got here and how we can counter it. Basically the left has implemented the book 1984 in reality \u2013 almost like that was their playbook: Don\u2019t allow God, because you can\u2019t worship government if God is in the way. Don\u2019t allow truth, because then government and those in power can pass off their lies as truth. As Klavan says, if truth is relative, then all that matters is power, and we see that today with the no-punishment deal for Hunter Biden and a pass for Joe Biden\u2019s crimes, while fake crimes are invented and used to prosecute the opposition candidate, Trump. (It\u2019s all Trumped up, if you don\u2019t mind the pun.)<\/p>\n

Klavan says that political and cultural authorities (think: climate change scientists, academics, etc.) do not like having their ignorance (and I\u2019ll add \u2013 their lies) exposed. What we have today is a crisis of reality, Klavan asserts. He says that everyone in power has abandoned real wisdom for the sake of personal gain. Tear down the other guy in order to build yourself up, because (as I assert) you don\u2019t have the work ethic, skills, or knowledge to build up something yourself, so that means being left behind, so tear someone else down so you can feel important.<\/p>\n

Another interesting book, The Genius of China, by Robert Temple, which I may have mentioned before, tells 3,000 years of inventions by China, but what I found fascinating is that most of inventions never took hold or spread \u2013 they never got to market, because \u201cLarge private enterprises in those commodities were thus put out of business, and the usual Chinese practice of nationalizing major industries and forming government monopolies was followed.\u201d That\u2019s what followed the Chinese invention of gunpowder. <\/p>\n

Likewise with forges for smelting steel; the emperor nationalized those too, in order to control the process of weapons manufacturing. Hundreds of opportunities were squashed in China over thousands of years because those in power either wanted the profits for themselves or the power those inventions would provide.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an appropriate time to highlight this history as Zi of China has been doing the same thing for the last few years; imprisoning business leaders and hijacking their businesses. Why? Because if national private sector heroes exist in industry, they could counter or speak out against his now lifetime-dictatorship. Same with Taiwan. <\/p>\n

Why are Chinese leaders so hell bent on taking over Taiwan? It\u2019s simple; they can\u2019t tolerate a successful democracy \/ capitalist economy on its border that provides a counter-example of why communism is bad and a failure. (The same was true as to why China wanted to get hold of Hong Kong so bad when the lease ended in 1997. They couldn\u2019t allow such a massive success story in on their periphery.) The same is true with the woke crowd here. They know that they need to brainwash our students; that they can\u2019t allow the truth to exist because that would shine a bright light on their story of lies, which is the foundation of their power. <\/p>\n

Now they even have censorship from the tech-oligarchs to block the truth and facts. Whereas before they had only the papers and nightly news to proactively promote their lies, today they can block the truth via Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. (Ever search for something on the web and instead of getting what you wanted, the search engine gave you what they wanted \u2013 which was the highest bidder for ad dollars. No longer can we even search for the truth, no, that\u2019s maybe on page 3 of the search if we\u2019re lucky.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like when my daughter was younger and her team had lost a soccer game. A mom afterwards then said, and I kid you not, \u201cyou\u2019re all winners, let\u2019s go to Culver\u2019s to celebrate.\u201d On the kids\u2019 faces shined the truth, they knew they lost and that her words rang hollow. Instead of letting that lie stand, I spoke up and said, \u201cWhat she said is a lie. You lost. Remember how this feels so that next time you\u2019ll try harder, and we\u2019re not going to Culver\u2019s.\u201d The kids respected the truth for once!<\/p>\n

Stop wokeness wherever you encounter it!<\/p>\n

T. Wall holds a degree from the UW in economics and an M.S. in real estate analysis and valuation and is a real estate developer. Disclaimer: The opinions of the writer are not necessarily those of this publication or the left!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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