Saying what needs to be said

P. J. O'Rourke doesn't write much any more, but he's in fine form in this piece:

To be woke is to maintain a state of mind where you are constantly and acutely alert to social injustice and permanently on the lookout for more social injustice to be alert to. Or what I would call a good reason to take a nap.

Which you’d think would be acceptable since being woke doesn’t actually entail doing anything. But, thankfully for the jester, hypocrisy never sleeps. If you’re woke you must stay ‘conscious’, in order to continually ‘communicate’ how vigilant you are about toxic masculinity, how mindful you’re becoming about cultural appropriation and so forth ad infinitum.

Being woke is a parody of being Born Again: instead of your accepting Jesus, people like Jesus (‘privileged’, famously well- connected fathers) have to accept you.

Well, that and the Chinese government (looking at you, Pop and Kerr). The Bad Orange Man noticed:

When you're runnin' down our country, hoss

Swapping out your shibboleths doesn't indicate thought or discernment. It's actually intellectually lazy. It's past time to start laughing at Woke people.