Woke,

 

The current cultural mass hysteria, in which both manhood as well as womanhood are dishonored, is in essence nothing new. It is absurd, that a young boy can now simply say, that he believes to be a girl and, then, we are all socially expected to call him a girl and treat him as a girl and a little girl can just say, that she feels, she is a man and from then on, we should refer to her as he and treat her as a boy.

 

The term woke is thrown around a lot, by right wing people, to criticize the failed attempt by the left, to address what is the real issue, namely, how we use our language. The wave of increased alertness and concern about social injustice and discrimination divides us, because it prevents us – as individuals – from recognizing how we use our language. Instead, our individuality, as it historically has always been, is again crushed by the social pressure to conform.    

 

What is goes completely unnoticed in the discussion about what is referred to as gender-identity, is the reality that both the proponents of this new fad and those who are against this, unconsciously engage in Disembodied Language (DL). Nobody is able to talk clearly about the problem, which has been with us for a long time, but which cannot be addressed by producing more of the same old DL. Our usual way of dealing with language – that is, our common way of talking – doesn’t allow us, to really be ourselves.

 

When we take into consideration the general lack of skill, to use our language naturally, effortlessly and peacefully and engage in Embodied Language (EL), it is not surprising, our dissatisfaction, disdain and disgust with our language is causing us problems. I say this emphatically, as a hetero-sexual, satisfied, confident male, who himself greatly struggled with the problems he experienced, due to how he used  his language. Only recently, at age 64, I was able to  embrace my manhood, when I realized, that being myself, is my Language Enlightenment (LE), which could only be expressed – after I had identified and stopped my conditioning history with DL – by my EL.

 

I am not the only man, who has struggled with his manhood, but I am definitely the only one, who has overcome his problems with his own involvement in DL. Although, I might still be somewhat affected by my history of conditioning with DL, it doesn’t bother me anymore as it used to. Actually, I feel grateful, I was so much troubled by my own DL, as it made me discover and explore my EL and acknowledge my LE.

 

Millions of men doubt their masculinity, but have no idea, that how they use their language, causes them to feel humiliated, ridiculed and rejected. However, with EL, it is crystal clear, also, of course, all women have short-changed themselves with their own DL. The quest for women’s rights hasn’t resulted into an awareness about the difference between DL and EL.

 

While EL is certainly a skill one can develop, one will only set out to do this, if one feels motivated to do so. DL is rampant everywhere, because there is no incentive at all to stop it. To the contrary, there is only more political, woke-reason to continue with it or to argue against it. Since we don’t know how to engage in prolonged EL, we, inadvertently, end up addressing our DL with more DL, which is a vicious circle. Therefore, in addition to the lack of skill, we miss out on EL, because we have no passion for it.

 

What is increasingly more absent in the miserable, violent, conflicted, superficial, chaotic, consumer lives of men as well as women – who still can’t seem to figure out how to live peacefully together – is passion. For modern human beings, there is nothing to dedicate their so-called heart and soul to. Those, who believe to be passionate, don’t want to admit, they are beating themselves up, in order to follow their dream. They proudly lose themselves, by being  part of something, that is bigger than themselves and sacrifice themselves on the altar of some cause.

 

In its original form, woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning alert to racial prejudice and discrimination. In other words, it was an attempt to address DL, but only someone with EL, would see it that way. With DL, we like to believe, in the beginning in the 2010, woke came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism. In other words, one word, came to include more than what it meant before. Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics, social justice, such as white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans. Stated differently, in DL we throw everything at each other except the kitchen sink, but we never ever get to EL.

 

Since nobody is getting anywhere with their DL, we are all disappointed and disillusioned. While we have all had some moments of EL, it was never enough to develop a passion for it. Yet, this is the only way out of our meaningless, mechanical existence with DL. Our language works for us with EL, but against us with DL. Thus, in EL we take control again over how we use our language. However, this is not a political, philosophical, spiritual or social issue, but a personal issue. Are you going to do it or not?