Woke?

 Today's song is: Another Brick in the Wall ... Pink Floyd

I am becoming annoyed at 'woke' individuals. I have come to believe that 'woke' only applies to certain beliefs perpetuated by group ideologies. I learned long ago that there is no white and black, only shades of grey, no right or wrong, as it depends on where you are on a spectrum. Woke individuals seem to think they have the definitive answer.

However:

One Urban Dictionary contributor defines woke as “being aware of the truth behind things 'the man' doesn't want you to know”. Meanwhile, a concurrent definition signals a shift in meaning to “the act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social issue”.

Pretentious indeed, to pretend to be all knowing. The problem is that the marketeers listen so carefully to woke opinions because they do not want to lose sales. This is exacerbated by social media that give woke individuals a stage to preent on.

What it amounts to is a threat to freedom of speech, or perhaps even having a different opinion to the woke crowd. Our news media is at play here as evidenced by Piers Morgan daring to criticize Meghan Markle for her Oprah's interview. It used to be if you put yourself out there in the public you had to take the good with the bad. Not so with the woke crowd.

I have discussed before how universities have restricted free speech due to unversity groups protesting certain speaker's rights to have an open debate on campus. Thought police at work! 

And don't get me started on cancel culture. If we pretend it did not happen ...

TTYL