re: Hegel, Wokeism, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

It boils down to ideological differences that have been around for centuries.

Aurelius chose to sleep in an uncomfortable bed while Seneca swam in the freezing river. Both were all too aware of the benefits of adding discomfort to ones life.

The above view, is realist, the view that the furnace of affliction, is necessary for growth and that life itself is filled with tragedy.

Thomas Sowell describes the opposing view as the vision of the anointed, the utopian view that man can be fixed.

Either way, seeing the dialectic, totalist views, purposivism, and the parallels to religious fanaticism is important.

The cold hard truth is that as long as ignorance and vice abound, tyranny is served, when virtue and knowledge reappear, liberty springs forth.

The man hell bent on self destruction, cannot be saved from himself, and when we recognize this simple truth, we will allow personal choice to have its just consequences.

Great post btw.
I'll give him a listen, been a few years since I read the communist manifesto while researching hegel.

To a young mind the offer of paradise is so alluring, and unfortunately since the 50's children haven't been taught to see logical fallacies, or how to critically think, but rather have been taught what to think.