Of course it is about that. The entire show deconstructs woke ideology and shows how it ends up being milked for self-advancement, moral grandstanding, leading to delation using pre-made judgement templates without nuance or consideration for personal circumstance. It is binary in that it tolerates only complete and total submission to the ideology and will cancel and destroy anyone who makes rational judgements that even only slightly infringe upon the accepted version of the unique Truth. And it will not hesitate to smear and destroy the lives of those caught on the wrong side of the ideology.
At its core it had good principles, but as the show perfectly renders, it ends up being suffocating because people end up not being able to use their own judgement and particular knowledge of people to determine if they are changed, improved or just likely to change, it coerces people to act like sheep in front of a prophet, to suspend rational evaluation in favor of the accepted attitude. Throughout the show we see a sharp criticism of extreme wokism (extreme feminism is blind and only pays attention to symbols and appearances, extreme LGBTQ++ or anti-racist ideology acts in delusional, immature and self-entitled way proving why they do not progress in their career, and everyone believes Mitch is a rapist even though he had perfectly normal relationships with mature women who had no career at stake). There is that unforgettable scene with an integrist feminsit who thought it decent to publicly shame him and gets completely shut down by Paola's magistral lecture on human decency and what real feminism means).
It shows its limitations when we stop thinking for ourselves and start using those pre-made, binary judgement templates. It casts a glaring regard on the fact that it is not enough to abide by the ideology, you need to also love the ideology, and also shout out that you love the ideology (moral grandstanding, distancitiation from cancelled people), or risk delation and cancelation yourself. It is the definition of fascism by Hannah Arendt and the show is brilliantly subversive in its critique.
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brux (14666)
2 years ago
The toxic ideology at work here is Trumpism.
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puremind (163)
2 years ago
None of the characters in the show are even remotely Trumpist. The show managed to criticize Woke ideology without ever advocating for Trumpism.
You're kind of proving the point the show was making ,which is that woke ideology does not allow for the slightest critisicism or nuance. And more importantly, it takes a binary approach to classifying people into either good or evil, when the good does not go their way all the way ...
It basically favors uniformity of thoughts instead of diversity and nuance. Woke ideology is a machine dedicated to shutting down diversity and dissent. It only accepts uniform view and a single Truth. In that it is totalitarian.
But the issue is actually in the people who wield it. Too often people hide behind the ideology to pursue selfish goals and group politics. We need more rational wielders of that ideology.
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