Wokeism: A way to go on sleeping
Žižek, Slavoj
Wokeism: A way to go on sleeping - 2023.
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Wokeism deserves more than ever our criticism. This phenomenon is gradually becoming normalized and accepted, and it is now practiced by the majority of academic and state institutions. The generalized use of the pronoun “they” heralds a radically new vision of the universality of human beings. It results in either imposing a gender-neutral universal ground for all humans, or imposing a new universalism. This vision implies the loss of sexual difference itself, not simply as a binary system, but as the antagonism that cuts across humanity. The choice of a sexual identity can hardly result from a free and mature decision. How can the wokeism of a minority instill a fear that prevents all opposition? Psychoanalysis might provide an explanation through the concept of the superego and its paradox: to wit, the more you obey its orders, the more guilt you feel.
Wokeism: A way to go on sleeping - 2023.
38
Wokeism deserves more than ever our criticism. This phenomenon is gradually becoming normalized and accepted, and it is now practiced by the majority of academic and state institutions. The generalized use of the pronoun “they” heralds a radically new vision of the universality of human beings. It results in either imposing a gender-neutral universal ground for all humans, or imposing a new universalism. This vision implies the loss of sexual difference itself, not simply as a binary system, but as the antagonism that cuts across humanity. The choice of a sexual identity can hardly result from a free and mature decision. How can the wokeism of a minority instill a fear that prevents all opposition? Psychoanalysis might provide an explanation through the concept of the superego and its paradox: to wit, the more you obey its orders, the more guilt you feel.
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