I'm in Midtown Reno, and the neighborhood is lightly peppered with those ludicrous signs. But this is Flyover and those people aren't really fooling anyone around here.
BTW, I know this column is about "moral capital," but my favorite bit was your almost throwaway reference to "the morality of common sense." That's really quite clever and deserves its own essay.
I own a business with many employees and we have been put through this woke training bullshit; most everyone I spoke to about it bemoaned the fanciful picture it paints. Now, thanks to this Woodhouse fella, I can give them this clear, incisive explanation of why we all felt the same creepy felling. It is the abject douchiness of a virtue signaling elite snobbery that was being rammed down our throats.
So could one then see the constant search for, public exposure of, and ejection of moral impurity a method of both creating scarcity in that cultural capital, and at the same time generating additional capital for those mining then exploiting the impurities?
Great article. Your thesis explains another interesting aspect of anti-racism - the need to change the rules frequently, in the same way that fashion trends change.
Seeing the play Hamilton stopped being a good signal of moral superiority once it became popular with the masses. So it became less cool, and even problematic.
Same thing with the concept of "color-blindness" as a good way to combat racism. For decades civil right activists struggled to get a racist America to be more color-blind. Now that the masses have made the attempt, it becomes uncool. Saying that you "don't see color" would be a huge social embarrassment here in Seattle.
I'm sorry I'm so late to the game, here, but thank you for another great article. And I'm glad that you recognize that we are "on the brink of a fascist coup." And I know how hysterical that sounds, but it still feels like we're teetering. As the old saying goes, the greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.
I'm in Midtown Reno, and the neighborhood is lightly peppered with those ludicrous signs. But this is Flyover and those people aren't really fooling anyone around here.
BTW, I know this column is about "moral capital," but my favorite bit was your almost throwaway reference to "the morality of common sense." That's really quite clever and deserves its own essay.
My goodness that is solid!
I own a business with many employees and we have been put through this woke training bullshit; most everyone I spoke to about it bemoaned the fanciful picture it paints. Now, thanks to this Woodhouse fella, I can give them this clear, incisive explanation of why we all felt the same creepy felling. It is the abject douchiness of a virtue signaling elite snobbery that was being rammed down our throats.
So could one then see the constant search for, public exposure of, and ejection of moral impurity a method of both creating scarcity in that cultural capital, and at the same time generating additional capital for those mining then exploiting the impurities?
Great article. Your thesis explains another interesting aspect of anti-racism - the need to change the rules frequently, in the same way that fashion trends change.
Seeing the play Hamilton stopped being a good signal of moral superiority once it became popular with the masses. So it became less cool, and even problematic.
Same thing with the concept of "color-blindness" as a good way to combat racism. For decades civil right activists struggled to get a racist America to be more color-blind. Now that the masses have made the attempt, it becomes uncool. Saying that you "don't see color" would be a huge social embarrassment here in Seattle.
All the more reason to entirely loathe these people
I'm sorry I'm so late to the game, here, but thank you for another great article. And I'm glad that you recognize that we are "on the brink of a fascist coup." And I know how hysterical that sounds, but it still feels like we're teetering. As the old saying goes, the greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.