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Here is a link to a post (on X) by Elon Musk which simply offers the piece by a Frenchman.
The above referenced “Frenchman,” Brivael La Pogam, has his words presented. It is a piece which offers the fundamental critique of “wokeism” (even as part of addressing some other things).
He begins by offering “ . . . apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).”
[I prefer “wokeism” (with the “e”) since “wokism” seems to refer to woks.]
He refers to it (almost in passing) as
“the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.”
And he proceeds to claim that “These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.”
The “texts” he speaks of are some French philosophers. “in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze“ as contrasted with prior French geniuses “Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville.”
I believe it well worth reading.
“A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three.”
Selecting snippets is difficult since I like almost everything he said there. I include this: “An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.”
The above referenced “Frenchman,” Brivael La Pogam, has his words presented. It is a piece which offers the fundamental critique of “wokeism” (even as part of addressing some other things).
He begins by offering “ . . . apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).”
[I prefer “wokeism” (with the “e”) since “wokism” seems to refer to woks.]
He refers to it (almost in passing) as
“the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.”
And he proceeds to claim that “These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.”
The “texts” he speaks of are some French philosophers. “in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze“ as contrasted with prior French geniuses “Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville.”
I believe it well worth reading.
“A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three.”
Selecting snippets is difficult since I like almost everything he said there. I include this: “An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.”
