I do not know about you, but are you tired of all the cultural wars? Yes, we do need to move our society forward, but being forced to adapt to societal changes that do not affect or reflect the majority of the country at times can be difficult.
Then there is the other extreme where a talking purple M&M becomes scourged publicly for no other reason but to assuage the ego of one overly hyped TV personality or personalities. Seriously, I just want to eat my M&Ms in peace and enjoy Santa and one of the M&Ms fainting when they see each other.
The hard reality is the vast majority of the country fits somewhere in the middle and leans moderately liberal to moderately conservative. I will posit that most lean more moderately conservative because most people are married, have kids, are stressed out at work, try to balance all their kids have on their plates with their own plates, care about the children’s education, clip coupons in some shape form or fashion, trying to find ways to save an extra dime in the bank, church attendance may be dropping off a bit, but still many go, and some not going is because religion isn’t helping them in anyway except for messaging and many churches have forgotten it is not their message that is important, but actual faith in God. Many vote out of a sense of duty, but hold no hope that elected officials know about their lives much less care about them. They pay too much in taxes, want social security to work, wish their employers paid more, would love to work from home, but struggle with productivity and all in all no one in any endeavor feels caught up.
Sounds a bit dire and there are many who are doing well, but generally the working and middle class feel something is missing and no one understands except each other.
So what does all this have to do with being woke or not woke? And of course you saying if you say nothing and everything then I am going to scream, but alas that is the answer.
There really isn’t “woke” so how can there be an “anti woke”. There isn’t either because it is all grandstanding, what you use to be called political correctness, agendas, and people being judgmental against each other because we have nothing better to do. And judge we do.
There is a need to learn to respect each other, help each other, find solutions to problems, give people an opportunity to do well as the person they are, but that is more about loving your neighbor than pleasing your neighbor. Sometimes you do not have to agree, but you do have to talk. Finger pointing and denigrating others is wrong and both pretentious liberals and hard right wing people do it. And if you deny it, then well you aren’t paying attention to yourself. We all do in some shape form or fashion.
Yet there is no woke or anti woke. There is only people pushing their agenda upon others trying to find people like themselves. And again this is not the majority of the country, it is just loud minorities berating us for not being them.
What is not going on is addressing the real issues facing us and the main one is the decline of what makes us a great country which is a well educated working and middle class. Now don’t presume too much, well educated doesn’t mean you can quote Shakespeare verbatim, but have an ability to reason, debate and converse with decorum, respect a well thought out opinion even if the vocabulary is sophomore English, be able to function with technology, but unless interested no need to be an IT guru, know what is STEM, and appreciate science and art for what they are to humanity.
A person who is taught much and exposed to much and knows to respect others can find a successful niche in society to be productive and dare I say it enjoy life.
So the next time someone tries to drag you into a culture war, just remember you are better than that and get with people who respect you to find ways to overcome or survive our daily struggles. And if someone tells you that you have to go with the current choices ask them why?
And after they answer it is because the other side is bad then reply, isn’t that why we have problems now? Or if you are a polite person, then you will probably just think that.
When both sides are finger pointing they are both hundred percent right and hundred percent wrong, but not for the reasons they think. Where exactly is the finger pointing or as some say, one finger points away and three point back.
Nothing about humanity will ever be perfect, yet it can be better if we choose better.
Cheers
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