Twitchy captured some commentary based on the premise that no one actually believes woke ideology.
Quite some time ago, I realized that a lot of the stuff I fervently believed back in my college days, I didn't actually believe. I merely believed that I believed it. Meta-belief, if you will.
Sir Pterry kinda-sorta captured this in Small Gods, in which nobody of any consequence believed in the Great God Om, but a heck of a lot of people believed in the Omnian Church. But meta-belief is actually on another level from that; the Omnian Church, its Quisition in particular, was an omnipresent threat, while the things I used to believe that I believed were just kind of floating around there, unchallenged, as things that everybody believed (or at least professed belief in), because (in the absence of contrary knowledge) they were just obvious. Besides, those beliefs were shared by all smart people, so those who believed otherwise must be Untermenschen.
Maybe the world needs more, I dunno, call 'em secular Jesuits... people who challenge unthinking belief with logic and observation, provoking crises of faith. Beliefs that stand up to logic might be reinforced, while those with no rational basis might be weakened.
Wait, wasn't that supposed to be the role of the Press, back before the Press became part of the Quisition?
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