Wokism would not have been so strong without the support of the university elitebut it is not a perfectly planned conspiracy against the West, but the suicidal part of western culture. He tells it José María Carabante in this essay that reveals the origin, rise, dictatorship and collapse of the woke. The most interesting thing, from my point of view, is the description of the role of universities in this mess. The idea is that some professors in the humanities and social sciences wanted to retain their influence by turning “cultural studies” into racial, ethnic, and sex and gender political demands. This caused the replacement of science by identity and emotions, and destroyed truth and objectivity.
Resentment
With the “cultural turn” everything became relative, and there the leftist professors became strong. They could not compete with science or technology, and they forged university generations of woke activists. It was, says Carabante, “the manifestation of the resentment of the mandarins or the intellectual class.”
In this way heThe Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences became factories of revolutionariesand became dominated by a “transformative” and “justice” elite, that is, woke. This dictatorship of “critical theories” has caused self-censorship among teachers and students so as not to disturb whoever orders, hires and gives notes.
This hegemony is visible in the financing of publications, projects and academic activities. Wokism, Carabante concludes, is totalitarian in his efforts to “destroy Western civilization”, which is why he proposes an individual work of reunion with the beauty of this world, the search for good, a liberalism that does not renounce the truth, solitude to delve into “high” books and “rigorous” philosophy.
In reality, what José María Carabante does is a call for us not to abandon culture due to institutional pressure or self-censorship.
Note: 9/10
The best: The mix of erudition and amenity turns a dry topic into an intellectual adventure.
Worst: The error of disregarding the role of the press and legislation so that high culture regains ground