Reimagining Politics Magazine

Reimagining Politics Magazine

A resource guide for the woke culture scene

A selection of smart perspectives for understanding and dealing with wokeness

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Michael Meurer
Jun 06, 2023
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“You are so brave and quiet I forget that you are suffering.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

As we all know, wokery is difficult to avoid these days, if for no other reason than that wokesters are the noisiest group in any cultural-political room. It can be exhausting because their inflated sense of grievance and their lust for the media spotlight have morphed into a seemingly ubiquitous 24/7 global noise machine about climate and gender.

When not gluing themselves to artwork in museums or splashing revered artworks with tomato soup and mashed potatoes, they are blocking traffic with their naked bodies painted in slogans, or screaming out loud at full throttle for over a minute at a public hearing to protest a perceived “trans genocide,” or joining more than a thousand strong with Extinction Rebellion protestors clad in symbolically blood red costumes shutting down large swaths of central London, blocking Whitehall, the Mall, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Downing Street and Victoria Embankment.

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