Last Week in Review - 15 January 2023
On the Turning of the Cultural Tide, Having High Hopes for the Rising Generation, Laughing at Wokesters, and Cultivating New and Better Habits
Greetings and salutations, fellow earthlings! Hopefully the new year is off to a great start for all of you. From where I stand (or sit or lie down, depending on the time of day), we are only two weeks in, and 2023 is already shaping up to be a great year.
The Cultural Tide Is Turning
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the cultural tide is turning, and that it has been for several months now, though we’re just now finally beginning to feel it in a big way. The tsunami of wokeness, after crashing ashore during the 2010s and cresting during the planned-demic and the “fiery but mostly peaceful” summer of 2020, is now rapidly receding, and ever more “normies” are seeing the wreckage it has left behind and recognizing wokeness, along with all its neo-Marxist ideological underpinnings, for what it is: a purely destructive force that is opposed to human biology and well-being. To borrow a phrase from Trump, this is huge.
We will h…
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