Wokeworld (Take 4)

The fourth and final Wokeworld Take

1

Impelled  to somehow quell
       a nagging sense of emptiness;
to build bonds of belonging
however dubious  however tenuous

impelled   to replace at any cost
their ruptured culture's lately-lost
ancestral wisdom's beneficial feelings;
       impelled   to instinctively search
              for a spark of purpose
                     and a kernel of meaning

impelled to oppose
              the soul-eroding force
                            of spiritual poverty
by latching on to the vaunted wealth
              of some richly manipulative
                            half-baked ideology

impelled
to sign up for the righteous folly
of joining some pie-in-the-sky crusade;
to embrace  some grievously impolitic
                                   political charade

impelled   through effective conditioning
to reflexively reject all that came before;
to erase the Four Olds and their stories

       as if the mere demolition
       of traditions were sufficient
                            to open the door
                            to a future full of glory


the rootless  youthful masses
— being as they were the engineered fruit
of dystopian wokeness-grafting classes
and pervasive  deracination operations —

       were perfectly ripe for recruitment
       into a cult for otherwise rudderless
                                   gullible first-worlders

were ripe to enlist in a movement
whose very existence
                     couldn't help but help proving

that broad swaths of a coddled
navel-gazing  spoiled-rotten populace
essentially exempt from material troubles

would   to placate their inculcated guilt
bedevil themselves with fictitious struggles
       dreamt up by their overlord-saviours

would  — to fill their inner void
and give their lives direction — 
       embrace  agenda-friendly behaviours
devoting themselves to whichever cause
they thought would please their secular gods.


2

As revealed
when stripped of the flimsy husks
       that conceal its deceitful conceits
wokeism is   among other things these:

precepts and dictates  cleverly couched
in the ever-appealing feel-good language
              of “justice”  “caring” and “kindness”
in the sunshine-lollipops
road-to-hell blindness  of good intentions

authoritarian top-down directives
obscured   beneath an ever-swelling sheaf
of profoundly deceptive smiley-faced beliefs

social poisons  posing as their antidotes
prejudice   masquerading as its antipode
       racism and bullying fully robed
       in the “anti-” prefixed frocks
                     of their ostensible opposites

vindictiveness   cynically cloaked
              in the cape of faux compassion
tyranny   in the raiment of liberation
narcissism  in the histrionic actions
              of allegedly-selfless engagement

exclusion  for the sake of “inclusion”
intolerance  in the name of “tolerance”
unwavering  conformity and sameness
              in the name of enforcing “diversity”

       the normalization of blatant absurdity
       the peak   quite possibly
                     of reality-inverting perversity
       the acme  perhaps   of hypocrisy
                     and inconsistent philosophy

a highly malignant psychopathology
                     disguised as a salutary piety
whose clandestine intent  was and is
to unravel the fabric of a fractured society.


3

Inhibiting liberalism
by crushing liberty — in every sense —
              under the unblushing pretense
                            of furthering its growth

passing off  conduct of the kind
it's quick to roundly denounce
                     when found outside the fold
as intrinsically virtuous
if in service of the Great Sainted Purpose

generating hate  or plain making it up
       in the laughable name of fighting it;
straining   to sink the listing ship of civ
       under the risible pretext of righting it

what is wokeism
— given this litany of duplicities —
if not the most corrosive
double-standard-dealing-and-driven
              division-triggering of civil religions?