Thank you, Chris, for this very fine and timely interview with Christian Parenti as he unpacks the roots and progressions of Woke ideology (I've been increasingly confused by its contradictory messages - is it right? left? what is it? etc.), and its embedded connections to identity politics, increasingly divisive politics, its weaponizat…
Thank you, Chris, for this very fine and timely interview with Christian Parenti as he unpacks the roots and progressions of Woke ideology (I've been increasingly confused by its contradictory messages - is it right? left? what is it? etc.), and its embedded connections to identity politics, increasingly divisive politics, its weaponization (creation?) by the system itself, anti-intellectualism and authoritarianism and, importantly, the absence of "confronting the class hierarchy of the society which is where the power really lies," and much more. I appreciate the complexity of Parenti's thinking and breakdown and am interested in reading where he is going with this in his next article(s). The connection with the over-emphasis on subjectivity in some mainstream psychotherapies is interesting to me - in depth psychotherapy which I practice and which is not mainstream, subjectivity and objectivity become inseparable and inner development invariably leads to more authentic outer actions in the world.
This was not talked about, but I personally think about the escalation of divisiveness we are experiencing culturally, and exporting globally, and its connection to the loss (and vacuum) of relationship to the sacred - to the sacredness of life, not necessarily any particular religion - and to the greater universal laws governing life on Earth.
Thank you, Chris, for this very fine and timely interview with Christian Parenti as he unpacks the roots and progressions of Woke ideology (I've been increasingly confused by its contradictory messages - is it right? left? what is it? etc.), and its embedded connections to identity politics, increasingly divisive politics, its weaponization (creation?) by the system itself, anti-intellectualism and authoritarianism and, importantly, the absence of "confronting the class hierarchy of the society which is where the power really lies," and much more. I appreciate the complexity of Parenti's thinking and breakdown and am interested in reading where he is going with this in his next article(s). The connection with the over-emphasis on subjectivity in some mainstream psychotherapies is interesting to me - in depth psychotherapy which I practice and which is not mainstream, subjectivity and objectivity become inseparable and inner development invariably leads to more authentic outer actions in the world.
This was not talked about, but I personally think about the escalation of divisiveness we are experiencing culturally, and exporting globally, and its connection to the loss (and vacuum) of relationship to the sacred - to the sacredness of life, not necessarily any particular religion - and to the greater universal laws governing life on Earth.