SandeepA wrote:Becoming woke is the default position for those whose interest in civilizational matters is capped.
100%. And THIS is the real problem with Wokeism.
Earlier there would always be (in any reasonably open society) some % of malcontents, contrarians, and idiots who would insist on projecting their self-loathing onto their culture, heritage, and nation. What institutionalized Wokeism has done is make this disease extend to encompass everyone who was formerly neutral, apolitical, "spiritual but not religious" etc.
It works like this: that big "neutral majority" tends to stay silent precisely because they are conflict-averse. They don't want to argue, spoil relationships, etc. so they would rather remain quiet on any potentially controversial subject that comes up.
What Wokeism achieves is to shift the conversation in such a way that even innocuously positive things, which used to be considered harmless before, are now things that you will be attacked and shamed for saying (e.g. Jai Hind, Ram Ram). The neutrals simply back down further and exclude all of this from their vocabulary because their primary motivation is to avoid any unpleasantness.
But of course it doesn't stop there. Wokeism pushes its envelope further and further with every turn. Attack Holi one year, Diwali the following year, Kumbh Mela the next. At some point this great, neutral majority has been held hostage for so long that some of them (especially the younger and more impressionable ones) start to gravitate towards adopting the Woke point of view in active, rather than passive ways. Stockholm Syndrome takes effect on a mass scale.
Net result, anyone who isn't "based" enough to realize that civilizational issues are worth an all-out, existential fight is either cowed into silence in the face of the Woke brigade's aggression, or feels compelled to echo its views just so that they are left alone.
That's why I actually try to treat the silent majority with sympathy-- exasperating as it can be. There is an impulsive tendency on the part of the Low-IQ "RW" to immediately attack anyone who isn't loudly championing the Hindutva perspective as "Jaichand", "Dhimmi", "HINO" etc. This is colossally stupid and counterproductive, not only because it further alienates the vast bulk of Hindus (whose participation is indispensable for any sort of mass movement), but also because it reinforces the Woke propaganda against the Hindutva side by showing that we are exactly as obnoxious, intolerant, and dictatorial as they claim.
We will continue to lose ground for as long as this happens.