GROWTH OF THE WOKE IDEOLOGY & THEOLOGY

The woke ideology & theology always sounds so grand and noble—compassion, justice, equality, & progress.  Yet, this begs the question “progress to what?”  No one in this group seems to desire to do the thoughtful work of the process and simply wants to receive the fruits of other people’s labor.  I find that progressive ideas are like virtues as the woke just keep playing with them and they get more difficult to identify.  This turns into dialectics—a fusion of the thesis with the anti-thesis.

Marx, VERY counter-Christian beliefs, was the father of economic dialectics and simply wanted to overthrow the throne.  Lenin honed this by having the “have not’s” requiring leadership from the “have’s.”  The Frankfort School really focused on the attack of culture—education, media, religion, the arts—essentially the “long march” through institutions.  The belief is that if you can’t radicalize via economics, do so via institutions slowly, steadily, and generationally.  This progressed to post-modernism where power plays exist everywhere—man v woman, straight v gay, fit v fat, colonizer v colonized.  Force all relationships to be power struggles with the emotional personal tribes becoming more and more political.

Woke has developed the concept of “intersectionality” in governance & within the church, where oppression isn’t one-dimensional, rather, it’s a matrix.  Every identity adds a new layer of victimization—the more layers, the more moral authority.  With this evolution the ultimate proletariat is: fat, old, disabled, single, person of color, Muslim, transgender, gay, from the 3d world, no education, low income, and both rural and urban.  The “boss bourgeoise” is: middle-aged, married, able-bodied, straight, white, Christian, westerner in culture, highly educated, middle to high income, and urban.

Essentially, modern progressives in governance & theology are just neo-Marxists in drag.