Hi PRW63,
Your definition on Wokeness is the finest I have seen to date....You seem a clever Bloke,so tell me please,can you find in the long History of Mankind any analogy to the young Peoples current obsession with Hatred of self and their Culture....I am conversant with a great deal of History and can find no apt comparison.
In history,...the closest I can think of probably is not an exact match. I know that "
those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it", and also there is the idea that "
history repeats itself". I don't disagree with those, but mostly I see history as
linear,... Beginning <--> End,... but with repeating loops of examples within that. So, anyway the closest example might be Rome. It was a big range of time from late BC till it fell, so nothing happened over-night. It had the corruption & disdain from the political leadership seen in the story of the brutal emperor Nero who allegedly played his fiddle while Rome burned. The common people were just a means to an end for their power. The Roman society fell deep into Hedonism (homosexuality, prostitution, orgies, you name it). They had a type of feminist movement where the prostitutes gained more power by proxy through their high level politically connected "customers" and through clout from being considered priestesses in some of the "temples".
Then in later times you have the Classic Marxism that took down the Old Russia and formed the Soviet Union. It divided the high income from the low income groups (haves & have-nots) and pitted them against each other with the "haves" (the "Evil Rich",..."Class Envy") being the favored whipping-boy, until everything collapsed in a Revolution and the USSR grew up in it's place. Germany had similar with dividing the people between the Jews and the native Germans with the Jews being the whipping-boy. This was simpler and had just two main groups, but the Neo-Marxists of today create many groups and pit them against each other with the White Hetero Male as the favorite whipping-boy, and incessant accusations of racism where there isn't any, which actually generates it through inflammation. Same principle, just more refined and more advanced, with the same goal of collapse and replace (you've heard "The Great Reset"?).
So "Woke" is just a slang umbrella "street-term" for Modern Leftist Ideology which you might also accurately call Neo-Marxism. "Neo" just means "new".
There is no exact match to today because history is linear, progressive, keeps moving to an end-point.
