Don’t know about others, but to me feels like “wokeness” has faded from view a bit because economic inequality has become the main issue again. And I agree with that: making people less dependent on landlords and employers is indeed the main issue. (The AI issue is more urgent, but even the AI transition would feel safer to me if we had a system where people’s livelihoods weren’t tied to jobs or affording rent.)
I don’t see that as the main cause. The only reason why economic inequality was able to take the perch is because people were already getting pretty tired of wokeness.
What specifically were people getting tired of, descriptively? It does seem quite plausible there’s a communication pattern that wasn’t working, for example. But I think that glossing it with a name is likely part of that communication pattern itself.
A key aspect of that stance was that there was pressure to call people out and get into arguments and I expect many proponents just got tired of it after a while, since this takes a lot of energy.
The neutral parties likely got tired of the culture wars and were more likely to tune it out. Lack of an undecided audience means less incentive to have some of these arguments on social media.
Aha, I like this description. I am personally unclear on the exact conversations meant by “culture wars”, and won’t reuse that term, but otherwise I agree that that sort of discussion is draining and unhelpful, no matter the cause.
Don’t know about others, but to me feels like “wokeness” has faded from view a bit because economic inequality has become the main issue again. And I agree with that: making people less dependent on landlords and employers is indeed the main issue. (The AI issue is more urgent, but even the AI transition would feel safer to me if we had a system where people’s livelihoods weren’t tied to jobs or affording rent.)
I don’t see that as the main cause. The only reason why economic inequality was able to take the perch is because people were already getting pretty tired of wokeness.
What specifically were people getting tired of, descriptively? It does seem quite plausible there’s a communication pattern that wasn’t working, for example. But I think that glossing it with a name is likely part of that communication pattern itself.
A key aspect of that stance was that there was pressure to call people out and get into arguments and I expect many proponents just got tired of it after a while, since this takes a lot of energy.
The neutral parties likely got tired of the culture wars and were more likely to tune it out. Lack of an undecided audience means less incentive to have some of these arguments on social media.
Aha, I like this description. I am personally unclear on the exact conversations meant by “culture wars”, and won’t reuse that term, but otherwise I agree that that sort of discussion is draining and unhelpful, no matter the cause.