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According to David Brooks of ''[[The New York Times]]'':
According to David Brooks of ''[[The New York Times]]'':
{{cquote|To be woke is to be radically aware and justifiably paranoid. It is to be cognizant of the rot pervading the power structures. The woke manner shares cool’s rebel posture, but it is the opposite of cool in certain respects. Cool was politically detached, but being a social activist is required for being woke. Cool was individualistic, but woke is nationalistic and collectivist. Cool was emotionally reserved; woke is angry, passionate and indignant. Cool was morally ambiguous; woke seeks to establish a clear marker for what is unacceptable.<ref>{{cite news|first=David |last=Brooks|title=How Cool Works in America Today|work=New York Times|date=July 25, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/opinion/how-cool-works-in-america-today.html?ref=opinion&_r=0|accessdate=}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|To be woke is to be radically aware and justifiably paranoid. It is to be cognizant of the rot pervading the power structures. The woke manner shares cool’s rebel posture, but it is the opposite of cool in certain respects. Cool was politically detached, but being a social activist is required for being woke. Cool was individualistic, but woke is nationalistic and collectivist. Cool was emotionally reserved; woke is angry, passionate and indignant. Cool was morally ambiguous; woke seeks to establish a clear marker for what is unacceptable.<ref>{{cite news|first=David |last=Brooks|title=How Cool Works in America Today|work=New York Times|date=July 25, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/opinion/how-cool-works-in-america-today.html?ref=opinion&_r=0|accessdate=}}</ref>}}
[[File:Taliban enter Kabul airport.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Taliban]] enter Kabul airport after U.S. departure, August 31, 2021.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/08/future-us-taliban-relations/184976/</ref>]]
The article ''Has the [[Woke]] Wave Peaked? Shock Poll Reveals Generation Z Rejects Cancel Culture'' indicates:
{{Cquote|The hard realities of the real world often have a way of exposing foolish ideologies for what they are. Everyone has relearned this lesson over the past week, as America’s 20-year effort to transform the culture of [[Afghanistan]] has crumbled and the [[Taliban]] has retaken control. As that actual war for the future of a country concludes halfway around the world, many Americans may also be finding themselves disillusioned with the [[woke]] [[Leftism|left]]’s not entirely incomparable crusade to transform American culture here at home. Recent polling shows that, for the youngest generation of Americans, the campaign to impose “wokeism” on the American people may already be running into nearly as much trouble as did the effort to impose [[liberal]]ism on Afghanistan.
[https://amac.us/has-the-woke-wave-peaked-shock-poll-reveals-generation-z-rejects-cancel-culture/ Morning Consult recently released a survey] of cultural attitudes broken down by age. When it came to “Cancel Culture,” the breakdown was staggering. Overall, no one liked it. The only group for whom more respondents viewed it positively (19%) or neutrally (22%) than negatively (36%) was millennials. Predictably, more members of Gen X (1965-1980) and Boomers (1946-64) viewed it negatively (46% for Gen X, 50% for Boomers) than positively or neutrally (29% for Gen X, 27% for Boomers).
[[Culture war]]s are by their very nature a fight for the future, and have therefore historically been fought along generational lines. “[[Cancel culture|Cancel Culture]]” is part of a broader left-wing reaction against the traditions of the [[Enlightenment]], which have been under sustained assault by a mostly millennial generation (born 1982-1995). Many in this generation believe that words are weapons, and that “problematic” speech should be “canceled” along with those who utter it. These ideas have infected corporate HR departments, the media, and even schools. Yet perhaps surprisingly, the millennial effort to transform America seems to be hitting a wall not only with their generational seniors, but with their younger brothers and sisters as well.
The real shock is the Morning Consult poll came from those born between 1997 and 2008. Only 8% viewed Cancel Culture favorably, while 55% had a negative view. That was higher than for Gen X or Boomers.
How is it that those aged 13-23 have a much more negative view of “cancel culture” than older generations? The answer may be that familiarity breeds contempt. While older Americans are exposed merely to the concept of “Cancel Culture” in the abstract, Generation Z is exposed to it every day. Their heroes and idols are regularly torn down, often by what seem to be depressed and resentful 20 and early 30-somethings who lecture younger Americans about how they are bad people for liking what they like.<ref>[https://amac.us/has-the-woke-wave-peaked-shock-poll-reveals-generation-z-rejects-cancel-culture/ ''Has the Woke Wave Peaked? Shock Poll Reveals Generation Z Rejects Cancel Culture''], 2021</ref>}}
[[File:Loc of United States.png|thumbnail|400px|Wokeness has very weak appeal outside of the [[United States]].<ref>[https://unherd.com/2021/05/the-end-of-woke-is-nigh/ The end of woke is nigh]</ref>
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Google Trends shows that worldwide, the term "woke" has already peaked outside of America. In other words, the term "woke" has peaked for Google global searches.<ref>[https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=woke,atheist,feminist THESE GOOGLE TREND GRAPHS dealing with the world which has a graph related to wokeness]</ref> Given immigration into the United States from Latin America and elsewhere, wokeness will wane and eventually die in the United States.
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Furthermore, many of the proponents of wokeness have a secular outlook and the United States is expected to hit peak secular sometime between the years of 2043-2050.<ref>[https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-is-secularization-likely-to-stall-in-america-by-2050-a-response-to-laurie-derose Why Is Secularization Likely to Stall in America by 2050? A Response to Laurie DeRose] by Eric Kaufmann July 24, 2019</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jssr_15101.pdf ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043''], ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'', vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, Eric Kaufmann, Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon</ref> See: [[United States, irreligion vs. religion and demographics]] ]]
In addition, consider these news reports about two major social media companies who engaged in big tech censorship and face "techlash" (backlash):
*[https://rumble.com/v1mquh8-facebook-collapsing-offices-closed-as-meta-in-freefall.html Facebook is collapsing! Offices closing as Meta in freefall]
*[https://rumble.com/v1mnozy-twitter-employees-panic-as-elon-musk-to-take-over-in-just-days.html Twitter Employees PANIC as Elon Musk To Take Over In Just Days]
Peter Franklin wrote in his essay ''The end of woke is nigh'':
{{Cquote| I’m asking whether wokeness has the capacity to offer a unifying vision of such compelling power as to overwhelm and supersede the existing order.
And here the answer is clear: it does not.
First, wokeness is too geographically limited in scope. The impact that it’s made so far depends on conditions that apply specifically to the [[United States of America]] — especially in regard to that country’s history of [[slavery]], [[segregation]] and ongoing [[racial discrimination]]. The global reach of social media helps to explain why the Black Lives Matter movement made waves far beyond America; but it does not change the very different context of race relations in other countries.
Even a country with as revolutionary a history as [[France]] has made it abundantly clear that American-style wokeness will not be taking root in French soil...
Second, unlike [[Christianity]] which spread among ordinary people before converting the establishment, wokeness comes from the elites and continues to wield its greatest influence there. It is not a popular movement; it is remarkably unpopular, in fact...
Third, wokeness doesn’t even begin to match Christianity’s intellectual depth. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo? It’s not exactly Saint Augustine’s City of God, is it?
No doubt that’s an unfair comparison, but if you put the intellectual heavyweights of the contemporary Left up against the best people from the other major schools of political thought — liberalism, conservatism, even classical Marxism — there’s no doubt as to who’d win the wooden spoon.
The jargon and buzzwords of wokery are easily grasped, a rhetorical framework that just about anyone can assemble and deploy on Twitter. But with so little substance behind each component, they quickly become worn out. Already, terms like “safe space” and “trigger warning” are beginning to sound very last decade. The biggest threat to wokeness isn’t whiteness or the patriarchy, but fashion.
There is no need for a radical new ideology to fix problems like student debt, unpaid internships, the housing crisis and all the other ways in which Millennials and Post-Millennials have been let down by their elders.
Indeed, the more that the elites adopt woke ideology to distract attention from these failures, the sooner that the young will realise they’ve been had — and the sooner they’ll move on to the next protest movement.<ref>[https://unherd.com/2021/05/the-end-of-woke-is-nigh/ The end of woke is nigh]</ref>}}
[[File:Culture war.jpg|right|200px|thumbnail|The [[culture war|Culture War]] is the name given to conflict over moral or religious values typically between mainstream American political thought and [[liberals]]/[[leftism|leftists]].]]
There is data showing that wokeness has less appeal outside the United States and that it has peaked globally. Google Trends shows that worldwide, the term "woke" has already peaked outside of America. In other words, the term "woke" has peaked for Google global searches.<ref>[https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=woke,atheist,feminist THESE GOOGLE TREND GRAPHS dealing with the world which has a graph related to wokeness]</ref> Given immigration into the United States from Latin America and elsewhere, wokeness will wane and eventually die in the United States.
Furthermore, many of the proponents of wokeness have a secular outlook and the United States is expected to hit peak secular sometime between the years of 2043-2050.<ref>[https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-is-secularization-likely-to-stall-in-america-by-2050-a-response-to-laurie-derose Why Is Secularization Likely to Stall in America by 2050? A Response to Laurie DeRose] by Eric Kaufmann July 24, 2019</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jssr_15101.pdf ''Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043''], ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'', vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, Eric Kaufmann, Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon</ref> See: [[United States, irreligion vs. religion and demographics]]
'''Question:''' Is the United States at peak [[woke]]ness?
The Google Trend graph for the last five years shows that the term "woke" has peaked in the United States.<ref>[https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=woke Google Trends for the term "woke" for the last 5 years]</ref> In addition, there is backlash against such woke things as critical race theory being taught in public schools and transexuals competing in women's sports.
Movements can be like fads with a certain shelf life. There have been various movements during my life which died and movements spawned by intellectuals/elites have become less less fashionable and died. There was the [[New Atheism]] movement which died (see: [[Decline of the atheist movement]]). There is [[feminism]] that has had some waves of feminism (there was First-Wave feminism, Second-Wave feminism, Third Wave feminism and Fourth-Wave feminism) and now feminism has some backlash.
==See also==
==See also==