How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
I&#x27;m glad that the Economist points out at the end that &#x27;wokeness&#x27; has become a favorite of business, and the reason is pretty obvious, as a movement it&#x27;s self-defeating because all identitarian politics eventually ends in infighting, with its subjective, choice and preference based worldview it&#x27;s actually ill-equipped to move anything.<p>It might exist in academia or PR departments or journalism or facebook pages and twitter threads but it does very little to affect material relations and power structures, so it&#x27;s if anything the Left and not anyone else who should be concerned with it.<p>It&#x27;s always surprising to me that this seems to be such a Conservative topic of concern who if anything should be glad that it occupies so much mindspace.