Quite. At a recent talk, a historian mentioned being challenged by his 7 year old son who had been fed (he discovered) various woke pieties. What is and has been happening in schools is very serious and I have grave concerns about Phillipson's forthcoming review of the education syllabus. Some eminent historians had been appointed by the previous goverment to advise on a history syllabus and Phillipson's very first act was to dismiss them. The indocrination of the young is not just continuing but will be promoted by Labour.
Culture War examples continue to pop up as frequently as ever and in unlikely places, a car manufacturer for example, showing how pervasive the institutional capture has been.
There is a significant problem in schools especially in urban centres. A primary school near me boasts about the number of languages its children speak and try to celebrate it. What else can they do? 'Christ this is ridiculous and inimical to high standards of education' is not something the head can say. I'm not even sure he or she even thinks that privately, so captured are they by the joy of multiculturalism.
So, it is up to us oldies to try and keep the flame of freedom alive, to resist wherever and whenever we can, in homage to the many before us who fought for the very freedoms now in jeopardy, and to be faithful to history, real history not the rerwritten fantasy versions, from whence we came. It will be, I think, a long haul but a worthwhile one.
Well written & a most valid argument. Woke is being wound back in some, limited areas, but it is unfortunately a beast of many heads. Down here in NZ our schools, universities & all Government Depts are still playing the identity game, despite a shift right in the last election. New Ministers make the right noises, but the woke rot is entrenched with the public servants who were grown & brainwashed under the previous left wing reign. Woke inertia is significant. Also, our Supreme Court is stacked with woke Judges who are now actively usurping Parliament’s sovereignty. ‘Life time’ appointees & entrenched university leaders will keep identity politics alive & kicking for a long time yet.
Woke is not going away. The anti-woke frequently refer to wokeism as Marxism, thereby denigrating both. Having dispatched marxism however we have also lost the idea of social science and/ or the idea that society can be rationally understood. Anti-woke is sound and fury without any alternative. They share with woke an attachment to cultural explanations, there is no class conflict in their world. The anti-woke are part of the same post-material age as the woke, and always return to their cultural comfort zone, where the woke are masters.
Quite. At a recent talk, a historian mentioned being challenged by his 7 year old son who had been fed (he discovered) various woke pieties. What is and has been happening in schools is very serious and I have grave concerns about Phillipson's forthcoming review of the education syllabus. Some eminent historians had been appointed by the previous goverment to advise on a history syllabus and Phillipson's very first act was to dismiss them. The indocrination of the young is not just continuing but will be promoted by Labour.
Culture War examples continue to pop up as frequently as ever and in unlikely places, a car manufacturer for example, showing how pervasive the institutional capture has been.
There is a significant problem in schools especially in urban centres. A primary school near me boasts about the number of languages its children speak and try to celebrate it. What else can they do? 'Christ this is ridiculous and inimical to high standards of education' is not something the head can say. I'm not even sure he or she even thinks that privately, so captured are they by the joy of multiculturalism.
So, it is up to us oldies to try and keep the flame of freedom alive, to resist wherever and whenever we can, in homage to the many before us who fought for the very freedoms now in jeopardy, and to be faithful to history, real history not the rerwritten fantasy versions, from whence we came. It will be, I think, a long haul but a worthwhile one.
Well written & a most valid argument. Woke is being wound back in some, limited areas, but it is unfortunately a beast of many heads. Down here in NZ our schools, universities & all Government Depts are still playing the identity game, despite a shift right in the last election. New Ministers make the right noises, but the woke rot is entrenched with the public servants who were grown & brainwashed under the previous left wing reign. Woke inertia is significant. Also, our Supreme Court is stacked with woke Judges who are now actively usurping Parliament’s sovereignty. ‘Life time’ appointees & entrenched university leaders will keep identity politics alive & kicking for a long time yet.
Woke is not going away. The anti-woke frequently refer to wokeism as Marxism, thereby denigrating both. Having dispatched marxism however we have also lost the idea of social science and/ or the idea that society can be rationally understood. Anti-woke is sound and fury without any alternative. They share with woke an attachment to cultural explanations, there is no class conflict in their world. The anti-woke are part of the same post-material age as the woke, and always return to their cultural comfort zone, where the woke are masters.