The Dilemmas of Woke Culture

I never really understood why people have problems with woke culture, or with anything that involves the woke mentality. The very nature of “woke culture” essentially means being “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination,” which, on the surface shouldn’t ever be a bad thing. But when you listen to people complain about such movements or ideas, they get all bent out of shape, and seem to think that you’re asking them to slice off their own skin instead of just be aware that not everyone has the best path through life.

Unfortunately, we live in a present society that has been built on a foundation of a belief that people are either winners or losers, especially if you’re a US citizen, and most likely if you’re someone who lives in a civilization that is founded in the economic principles of capitalism. From the very inklings of Manifest Destiny, where we believed that we were somehow “chosen” to inhabit this land as far as it could go (and then once we ran out of land, inhabit whatever else we could find or take from anyone that happened to be camped out on lands around us), we’ve often lived in a society that has believed that certain people are meant to be the winners/the wealthy and others were designated to be the losers/the poor. Hell, the American ideal was built on the idea of bootstrapping yourself to billionaire status, regardless of how many people you had to step on to get to the…