How wokeness weakens the West but empowers China

Those People will explore the causes and consequences of the growing social distance between symbolic capitalists and 'normies', which leads symbolic capitalists to misunderstand [misrepresent] others' alienation.

The first book resonated in WEIRD (western, highly educated, industrialised, rich, democratic) nations. The second likewise, if to judge from chapter titles Unrepresented America, Asymmetrical Multiculturalism, and Antipolitics of Humiliation.

Rental-protest-dad would fit in. As would our racially biased "Race Commissioner" and plainly divisive "Special Envoys" for Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Social Cohesion.

Here are tips on Australian cohesion. Never mind Trump hysteria, worry about our local extremes. Endless immigration provides 75-80% of our population growth, Labor routinely rebrands standard-of-living pain as Treasury wins, whilst maintaining racially discriminatory sweetheart-deals for unchecked Indian immigration.

And climate-woke?

Rather than innovation, WHNBW notes, wealthy nations are experiencing "stagnation and declines...dysfunction and mistrust". While their "symbolic capitalists are among the primary beneficiaries of the environmental devastation they conspicuously condemn." I saw this form of wokeness as crucial, craving greater coverage.

Like, the UN net-zero fallacy has swept WEIRD world, with Australian science going overboard for "climate action". Little solace for Planet Earth. Global population and immigration pressures never slacken, but woke science refuses to link population to ever-plummeting habitats and species.

Though the US shows signs of reindustrialisation, other WEIRD nations deindustrialise. Not-woke China may lead the so-called electrification of everything but is also the runaway leader for CO2 emissions. Ignoring this reality, virtuous commitment to an imagined "net-zero economy" is catnip among the top 20%, "legislated" in Australia. As in the UK, this elite hypocrisy heralds austerity for ordinary people.

Musa comments, the "concentrated one-party rules" of Democrat New York and Democrat California are among the "worst states" for inequality. Their governing classes, I'd add, excel at climate-action grandstanding that effectively favours China. Yep, the totalitarian super-power super-polluter.

Those People won't be that book about climate-woke. Though Musa muses, climate-action could lend it a case-study. That is, the acquired mistrust [including his own mother] of climate journalists, experts, and institutions. Repeatedly, their "strong claims are made based on models and the uncertainty is not conveyed".