Fundamental<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this text, \u2018wokism\u2019 denotes \u2018woke fundamentalism.\u2019 As in any fundamentalism, anxiety and aggression are core elements. As any fundamentalism, it has at the core the reverse of what the direction of the less \u2018fundamental\u2019 is about. One can see this in several kinds of religion-ism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fundamentalism is casting the organically warm into stone, which is then seen as the fundament upon which anything should be built. But nothing organic grows on stone. Here can only be built something that doesn\u2019t live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be different in many ways, but you must be wokist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That is an oxymoron, the reverse of tolerance<\/a> disguised as tolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the mere surface level, anything loses its capacity of inner growth. Thus, wokism stops what woke is supposed to bring: tolerance for total human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here lies a deeper challenge. Unconnected with depth, people cannot grow in nice ways. Because of this, depth finds deviant ways. Then wokeness may react against these deviant ways so that depth is dismissed even more. This vicious circle continues, making it more and more difficult for wokeness to blossom. The situation hardens, and those who might bring wokeness in a friendly way get overshadowed by those who cry woke. Wokism is born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, gender-related<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Genders should be treated as equivalid<\/a>. This is an element of positive wokeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Equivalid\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean that genders are the same or should be treated as the same. Everybody knows they are not, outside nor inside. They are equivalid, not equal. The differences are not simply the result of social construction. In wokism, however, the fear of hurting someone’s feelings overshoots into a genders-being-equal fundamentalist wall against which wrongdoers are smashed. The result is much frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wokism turns against woke.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In an effort to dominate the woke landscape, wokists may not tolerate the wokies. Thus, they may try to turn them into wokists, or spit them out \u2015 bullyism. The bully acts not only to ostracize the \u2018them,\u2019 but even more to intimidate the own circle. The biggest bully \u2013 in this case, wokist \u2013 generally becomes the leader of the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I see \u2018cancel culture\u2019 as typical bullyism: Who doesn\u2019t conform must be cancelled by the conformist mob\u2026 Is that freedom of speech? Should there be freedom of bullyism? A complicating factor lies in the group happening, which is generally more powerful than expected because of an underlying stream that is 1) powerful by itself, and 2) goes unhindered. This is no different in wokism than in any other fundamentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reverse of wokism: woke tolerance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Or simply call this \u2018woke.\u2019 Then, one responsibility of wokeness is to counter wokism. The best is to prevent the latter. Advisable in this is to go deeply into \u2018woke.\u2019 What is it about? Why is it important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the natural energy that pushes this flower bud to open?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This may awaken you to woke gentleness<\/a>.<\/p>\n