||| FROM DAVID KOBRIN |||
To be “woke” is to be awake.
To be awake means it’s possible to have conscious thought, including questioning,
listening, discussing, and evaluating.
To be awake gives you opportunities to observe what is happening around you.
The opposite of “woke,” or awake, is sleep.
Sleep offers a universe of dreams — dreams and fantasies, even nightmares.
It is a world of emotions –powerful emotions, like fear and vengeance, conquest
and dominance, and revenge.
In dream land, the realities of the daily world we live in are suspended.
The opposite of “woke” is to live as if in a dream. Day after day without
awareness of whom we all are.
To oppose something that you are unable to see, or understand, is to oppose a
thing without knowing what it is.
While I understand your point it does feel like you took positives from being “awake” and “negatives” from being asleep. Car crashes, murders and abuse, happen while awake also. While asleep, personal recollection, psychological healing and a sense of adventure are hallmarks of dreaming. I am turned away not by the principles of wokeness but about the methods of implementing it. To a lot of people wokeness seems emotionally charged, I believe it is revengeful in nature (us vs them) and it has conquered and dominated me in many social situations. I just go silent and watch as I have found it is not a safe place to question or evaluate…
I don’t consider myself woke but I certainly used questioning, listening and evaluating to make my statement.
Well said Mr Kobrin. It’s bad enough to be constantly assaulted with poor grammar and then misrepresenting the meaning of woke just continues to dumb down our communities. Unfortunately, I fear, that seems purposeful.
Thank you, Josh, for your thoughtful and helpful comment.
Thanks for the reply David. I felt nervous posting something as a I am usually very shy. While I made a typo, I hope nobody feels that I have assaulted them… but I do feel the need to point out the irony in my first statements concerns and the response that followed…