Wokeworld (Take 1)

1

Amid a rampant radical madness
insidiously hatched in college campus
incubators   of critical-theory-activated
       state-of-the-art neo-Marxist hooey;
amid a suddenly-de-rigueur madness
that'd been nurtured in re-purposed unis

       strange trains of mind
       (having gone off the rails by design)
       had left their deftly sabotaged tracks.


In the freshly-sprung rancour factories
       that had hijacked higher learning
a hot-off-the-press  truly-lunatic version
of a not-so-new  crazed way of thinking
       had met with success in its scheme
       to undermine the spineless system

as pseudo-postmodern intellectual rot
(having guillotined reason
and declared itself free of the need
       for evidence and rational thought)
had advanced scholastic malpractice
and furthered scholarship's subversion

to the extent
       that under cover of maternal virtue
what academia perversely gave birth to
was a vast standing army
of self-righteously intolerant monsters.


2

As the millions-strong mob
              of PC totalitarians spoke
as one
unhinged  tunnel-visioned organism
       within the echo chamber of woke

few inside noticed the depth and range
to which language had been changed
as a sneaky means  to retrain brains
       as certain words
       were furtively redefined
       to discreetly mislead simple minds

and none inside recognized
that the contradiction-dripping script
that skippered their juvenile
       monomaniacal  ideological drift

had invariably been written
by zealous  nihilism-driven teams
of professional malcontent grifters
       in the business of issuing reams

       of cut-and-paste-peppered
                            buzzword-riddled
              catchphrase-saturated
                            brainwashing drivel

— had been penned
by stilt-pilfering cognitive midgets;
by coteries of smouldering
mostly incoherent  academic imbeciles
for whom resentment envy and hatred
were unappreciated  animating principles

in an upside-down clown world
              of baseless dogmatic assertions
(all as worthless and allergic to data
as they were steeped in deep aversions
                     to analysis and reasoning);

in a Wonderland world of inversions
where conclusions  (refusing to follow)
              had developed a habit of leading.


3

Always so much better
and holier-than-thou
              irrespective of whether
              they were right or wrong
and what they did was good or bad

the inquisitional digital throngs
                     of social justice nutters
did their utter destructive best
                     to ruin lives and add scalps

in the course of reinforcing
their fantasies  of scoring moral points
              against infidels and apostates
by calling-out  confronting  hunting down
and if need be  burning at the stake
       those who declined to self-flagellate;

who refused to submit to myths
              born of invented transgressions
— transgressions for which
       as defenseless as in absentia
              they'd been readily condemned
and to which they were pressed to confess.


4

As casually sadistic
       as they were odiously sanctimonious
the crybully goon squads and mobs
(lost in the throes of collective psychosis)

spared no effort in their quest to quench
       their perpetually offended members'
                     horrifically shrivelled souls
with the blood they spilt
conducting  their ever-vigilant
guilty-till-proven-innocent  purity patrols.


Their hitherto-hollow  mollycoddled lives
having failed to give rise
                     to anything of notable worth

the flying-off-the-handle
                     Red-Guard-like vandals
— as if bent on avenging
a learned  burning bitterness —
              had agreed to scorch the earth

       on their manic wasteland-advancing
                     fealty-demanding mission
       to cancel culture  rewrite history
       and Year Zero the weakened system.