WOKE, ‘WOKENESS’ & CONSCIENCE

The original definition of the word ‘WOKE’ was intended to apply to ‘taking action to correct social injustice against African-Americans (Black humans from Africa imported to other continents as slave workers)’. However, in todays’ society, specifically in the United States of America: The meaning of the word WOKE has been largely distorted by many groups in America’s society to mean many different things – to the point of making the term WOKE and WOKENESS totally meaningless.

In one of Dr. Sam Harris’ recent Town Hall podcasts, he stated that he might have “better success talking with a person that he considered to be ‘crazy’ than the 5 WOKE persons” in his audience. Unfortunately, this appears to constitute blatant discrimination against both persons with severe behavioral health issues and people that he deemed ‘WOKE”. For a highly educated person, this also appears to be an inexcusable position and/or proposition.

Dr. Harris then continued to discuss the nature of ‘human’ (presumed) conscience and then brought Dr. Eric Weinstein to the stage to continue this discussion, as IF either speaker had any better idea of what the nature of what human conscience was that anyone else in his audience. This action appears to depict considerable arrogance of both speakers because of their own education, knowledge and current social status.

It is MY contention that ‘conscience’ is the cognitive awareness of any life form of its own existence and its realization that other life forms may exist in this universe that are as yet unknown and/or undiscovered and recognized as living entities. My term “life forms” includes all animals, plants, fungus, bacteria, virus, etc. – some of which have yet to be determined to be actual life forms by we homo-sapiens and biological science.

Both doctors seem internally confused by their own knowledge and relative brilliance and have been expressing this confusion with MANY statements of “I don’t know” in every speech, talk or discussion that they engage in.