
18/06/2025
WOKE joke—the fallacy of the WOKE Right: By inventing the term 'WOKE Right', author, mathematician and cultural critic James Lindsay has created a nonsensical anti-concept that has done more damage to causes on the Right than any fake news media could. Fake concepts are far more dangerous than fake news narratives.
In the intellectual confusion surrounding political concepts, it should not be surprising that many on the Right have come to both accept - and fear - being labeled 'WOKE.' But the joke is on them, and it was made possible by yet another political fiction called the 'political spectrum.'
The 'political spectrum' was perhaps the most brilliant and effective propaganda victory that the Left ever created. Following the political maxim of 'define or be defined,' the Left succeeded in defining the Right as simply another variant of the Left - fascist instead of communist or socialist.
Lindsay has mischievously created the concept of WOKE Right in such a convoluted way as to make any objective understanding of either word impossible. Worse, the concept of 'WOKE' serves no useful purpose as an adjective. The term 'WOKE Right' is a contradiction. The term 'WOKE Left' is redundant.
In the face of this epistemological reality, it is difficult to view the term WOKE Right without attaching some kind of sinister agenda to its use. James Lindsay already had established a reputation as a hoaxer; could it be that he has again been perpetrating a hoax, for purposes yet to be revealed?
The term WOKE Right creates nothing but intellectual confusion, since it is an 'anti-concept,' described in 1971 by Ayn Rand as "an unnecessary and rationally unusable term designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concept."
Thanks to a 'political spectrum' that allows for an infinite variety of anti-conceptual political definitions, today's Right continues to be a 'broken' Right, ever fragmenting into smaller and more numerous variants. In allowing themselves to be guided by a broken political compass, those on the Right are finding themselves gravitating into the center of a fascist political abyss from which there may be no recovery.
Unless enough people come to discover what is Just Right, rather than any other version of Right defined by an adjective, the principles of individualism, capitalism, and freedom will be nowhere to be found on any political spectrum.
[To listen to this broadcast of Just Right, simply click on the photo below.]
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