Awake, Not Woke

Two words keep coming to mind as I read all the fake news, propaganda, wishful thinking, and out right lies that comprise the so-called media today.

Merit.

Discrimination.

Of course, these two words are penitus prohibitum -  utterly forbidden - in any civil discourse these days, because they represent a philosophy that is antithetical to the Deep State/New World Order narrative. And that philosophy can be described as the quest for the personal attainment of worth, and the free application of choice.  But let's find out why the woke left despises these words, and why we should use them in word and deed more often.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which in my view is the definitive source for the proper use and etymology of the English language, defines them as follows.

Merit is defined in use 1 as: "that which is deserved or has been earned, whether good or evil; due reward or punishment."

Discrimination is defined in use 1 as: "the action of discriminating; the perceiving, noting, or making a distinction or difference between things; a distinction (made with the mind or in action)."

Regarding merit, we can see how it aligns with the biblical idiom "you reap what you sow." Interestingly, and as a testament to its epistemological truth, the Hindu concept of karma - which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions - support this.  Two concepts from two vastly different ancient religions a world apart seem to validate merit as an inescapable human consequence of one's actions - whether good or ill.

But what do we see happening in government, in school boards, in woke corporate boards of directors, and in other centralized institutions of power?  We see the exact opposite of merit.  Folks are empowered by their sex, by their illusions of their gender, by their skin color, by their political leanings or by their status of victimhood.  But not on their necessary competence.  And as a people being governed by these frauds, what benefit do we reap from that?  What does this lack of meritocracy yield in the long run?  Do we advance our species, building on the backs of the giants who came before?  Are our kids being educated beyond the levels of which we ourselves were educated? Do they really know more than we do?  Or because of our turning our backs on the benefits of merit do we degrade ourselves to the point of reversing civilization, dumbing it down, and eventually erasing it all together? Which definition of merit do we seek?

Well, how about discrimination?  With the new normal demanding that we see no differences in each other - inclusion I think is the term being used - we refuse to note the obvious. And yet inclusion itself requires discrimination.  If, as Affirmative Action requires, we see a candidate for a job has black skin, we are required to hire him.  But we do so at the cost of a white, or red, or brown, or yellow skinned individual. Isn't  noting a difference in things the very definition of discrimination?  Why, yes.  Yes, it is.  If we see an effeminate male, adorned in garish makeup and clothed in women's attire, we're told we must acquiesce to his preferred identity of who he thinks he is, even when it is obvious he is anything but.  We must stomp down our obvious noting a difference between him and a manly man, and play his mentally ill game.   Or let's say you're walking down a city street.  On one side is a group of older gentlemen in shirt sleeves playing checkers on the sidewalk.  On the other side is a group of youths wearing hoodies, all of whom are looking right at you.  What are your instincts telling you?  Inclusion?

 

Merit and discrimination are inbred survival instincts common to all animals. One discriminates against danger.  One makes a discriminate choice to avoid obvious dangers, and one lives.   One learns from these correct choices - and from those incorrect choices, as well -  and one earns the right through merit to advance himself and his progeny.  In doing so, the world goes on.  If we as a culture, or especially as a species, disregard this truth and act in contravention to it, the future will not only be bleak, it will be nonexistent. 

Resist the urge to succumb to political peer pressure.  Wokeism is a combination of narcissistic arrogance and complete incompetence, as Victor Davis Hanson reminds us.  Speak and act as a human being.   Ignore the woke insanity around you, because there is another undeniable truth:  

This too shall pass.