Counter-Wokism

Konstantin Kisin and the Counter-Woke Revolution.

They are supposed to be talking about the anti-woke movement and philosophy, but from about 50 minutes they dive into religious questions.

JP sets up a fideist Catch-22, by stating a belief-based-question in such a way as to then claim that every answer is itself a belief. One then needs to take a Buddhist stance of not replying to such meaningless questions.

JP seems to need to read more Buddhist epistemology. I can't assume he hasn't read any, but his misunderstanding of Sam Harris, and his Dzogchen views, leads me to sense that JP is so chained to his monotheism that he cannot understand a universe purely of forces without some divine ghosts lurking behind them.

IMO JP remains a good example of how a Jungian psychodrama plays out, where Jung stated that he felt that at the end of an individuation process it would be best for the individual to somehow return back to their religion of birth. I disagree with this - as I did when I first read it - as it does not admit to the possibility that one's own autochthonic transcendental experiences could be independent of one's societal religious beliefs.

Konstantin Kisin at the Oxford Union, This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far speech

"Go to university, graduate and become a woke idiot"

The motion actually passed, sadly not by very much - 89 to 60.

The end of the interview looks forward to some positive, uniting spirit... what is missing IMO is to articulate it beyond the current belief templates, as they are the cause of the current problem. Both the priests and the believers share a contract of insanity - a plague on both their houses.

However, this is a plan for an age of, not wokism, but lost-ism. What was an obvious human malaise a couple of decades ago has become a full-blown epidemic of lost souls. Instead of transcendence, we see entrancement.