I have 8 grandchildren. It looks to me like they are nearly all ‘woke.’ What does wokeness mean for a large new generation? What does it mean to be woke in terms of the survival of the commercial world?
First, what is woke? Wokies hold the following main ideas:
- America is a systemically racist country.
- Women are second-class citizens and are subject to discrimination..
- Humans are causing a catastrophic rise in global surface temperature.
I won’t argue against any of these propositions. My job is to consider their effects on America and the larger world.
The first, anti-black racism, will have the worst consequences. America is not racist at all. It is predominantly meritocratic and the consequence is that American blacks are the main component of the bottom class. Holding the ‘woke’ view that racism is systemic will only make the problem worse. Nothing in the way of government policy or private behavior will change the Black outcome. Nowhere that blacks live, whether in black societies in Africa or in mixed societies such as Haiti or Louisiana, is the outcome any different.
But the black attitude of ‘white oppression,’ promoted by ‘wokism’ is counter productive. We are already seeing urban areas re-dividing as forced school integration has turned public schools into black schools. San Francisco, for example, has gone from a citywide population with 12% black to 4% black since the 1960’s and the public schools are now less than 10% white down from 55%. Asians and Latinos are the rest of the non-black.
The same effect will be seen increasing in employment. In commerce, as opposed to government, employment will see dis-ntegration as whites and other non-blacks are less and less willing to hire blacks for fear of workplace antagonism and discrimination lawsuits. This is the saddest outcome of ‘wokism.’
The same will be less true for women. The dis-integration is already happening and will accelerate as the influence of ‘wokism’ expands. But women as a whole, excluding black women, will be able to create and operate businesses at a comparable rate to existing business formation. Reproduction will suffer. But it is already declining at a rapid rate as the general social optimism is declining with the rise of ‘wokism.’
Lastly, the belief in human-caused global warming has never been strong in the general population and will be discarded step-by-step as ordinary people are expected to endure hardships or deprivations of any sorts caused by this woke thesis.
In summary, the ‘woke world’ is generally a dead-end with some bad outcomes for the black community. America will survive because meritocracy and commerce are well embedded in the society and can not be fully suppressed.