Defining “Woke”

I like what the lawyer said here, though I would argue that the concept goes even further:

• All of Earth’s people need to be treated fairly and equally.  We have people worth hundreds of billions of dollars, living on the same planet as 1.5 billion people who can’t get a clean glass of water to drink. This is morally wrong.

• The United States has no more right to wage an aggressive war against Venezuela than Russia had a right to invade Ukraine.

• Public education should be supported, not destroyed.

• The death penalty is not a part of a civilized society.

• Science should form the underpinnings of government policy.

• Corporations should not be able to buy favorable lawmaking.

• Big Oil should be prohibited from using our atmosphere as its own private sewer.

One more thing: woke is a win-win proposition.  Woke countries, e.g., Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, most of the rest of Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Iceland, and the rest are perennially at the very top of the world happiness rankings. Their governments actually care about their people, and their people care about each other and the quality of our environment.

This is a recipe for happiness. Human beings did not evolve over the last 200K years to become selfish, greedy, uneducated, impoverished, racist slobs.

There is a good reason that the United States is mid-pack in terms of happiness, and that very few Americans care one way or the other.  We are almost completely indifferent to the wellbeing of others.