We in the West have been schooled into an expectation that there is a political solution to every social problem. There isn’t... but the expectation can lead the most politically engaged kind of people down some big rabbit holes. One of them is a fixation on “Who is to blame” for our discontents. This leads people to see Wokeness as having been deliberately imposed on us normal everyday citizenry by some or other kind of 'elite' (Techno bros, Cultural Marxists, Managerial Elites etc). These ‘elites’ - so the argument runs - are ‘in control’ and must be defeated in order to bring an end to the Woke madness. But this is to seriously misread the nature our 21st c. Western malaise the most salient feature of which is that it has become out of control by anyone. Rather it is a kind of mass psychosis; one that ensnares everyone - rich and poor (especially the rich if anything), young and old (albeit in varying intensities). grahamcunningham.substa…