New Discourses All Roads Lead to Woke
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Feb 6, 2026 A critique of rhetorical tricks that present social change as inevitable or universal. Exploration of how inevitability framing narrows choices and creates manipulative traps. Examples include education, socialization policies, and political arguments that claim totalizing outcomes. A call to spot these framings and look for alternative third options.
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Woke Inevitability As A Framing Trick
- The 'woke inevitability' spell claims a bad outcome is already happening or unavoidable.
- That framing narrows choices to two bad options so proponents can sell a controlled version as the lesser evil.
Tyranny Example Demonstrates The Trap
- Lindsay uses tyranny as an example to show the trick of narrowing choices to two evils.
- He maps it to critical race theory framing where systems are labeled either racist or anti-racist only.
Dialectic Of Freedom Produces Tyranny
- The dialectic of freedom argument shows how attempts to maximize openness can create enforced orthodoxy.
- Critical theory variants claim freedom or reason inevitably calcify into tyrannies that police correctness.
