Woke has left our country a shell devoid of its culture
We have heard debates about whether the United States was founded on Christian values or whether it was founded on enlightenment values. While the fact of the matter is not only was it founded on both, it was precisely because it was founded on the blending of both, that American exceptionalism emerged. It was a country of strong Christian values. Yet where religion did not trample on freedom, both personal and economic, or on science.
The survival of everything of value, namely science, humanism, in the classical not the woke sense, freedom, individualism, requires not that science drive out religion or religion drive out science, but a Judeo-Christianity which combines the best of traditional values with an appreciation of the rights of man and freedom. This was until recently the de facto situation in the United States. And perhaps ironically, today some of the most passionate defenders of the enlightenment values of freedom and human dignity are conservative Christians, while “secular humanists” support censorship, speech codes, totalitarianism and terrorism.
Intelligence exists, it can be measured and is almost totally genetic. Males and females differ biologically. Capitalism produces freedom and economic wealth while socialism produces slavery and starvation. White male Western civilization was the only civilization that ever condemned slavery. These are all incontrovertible truths that are forbidden to be expressed today.
The great enrichment, In the West and in only the West, was produced by the Enlightenment allowing for freedom of speech and writing, and so free enterprise. Today the great poveritization is being produced by Woke, BLM and Islam, by socialism and cancel culture.