Opinion: 'Wokeness isn’t cultural socialism or religious zealotry, but it sure is an orthodoxy,' asymmetricinfo writes
Officials at Middlebury College canceled a speech by an anti-liberal European Parliament member last week, citing safety concerns. By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist April 25 at 2:43 PM Middlebury College in Vermont kicked off this year’s college disinvitation season on April 17, canceling a speech by anti-liberal Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko hours before his scheduled talk.
I suspect that both sides are searching for a different word, one associated with both religion and Marxism: What they are trying to describe is an orthodoxy, a received wisdom enforced not by argument but by social, economic or even violent coercion. “Everything is open to question” may seem a natural intellectual principle to those raised between roughly 1970 and 2000 — between the sexual revolution and the Great Awokening. But most cultures, for most of human history, haven’t acted this way. Maybe that’s because such openness represents an unstable equilibrium, possible only in the liminal moment between the eradication of an existing orthodoxy and the establishment of a new one.
Adopting a new orthodoxy, however, is messy — hence the midnight purges and self-incrimination sessions of infant communist regimes. And while the new orthodoxy gropes toward its final shape, people living under it experience a special, debilitating terror: the fear that anything you say might be held against you, that what is mandatory today might be forbidden tomorrow, with ex post facto justice meted out to anyone who failed to anticipate the change.
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