The woke virus.

Our easily offended society in the West looks to be doomed in the future. But there is some hope. Or just live life under your own circumstances and take a break from it all.

Australia has a habit of embarrassing itself when high-profile guests visit the country.

Remember when we banned the number one tennis player in the world Novak Djokovic from playing at the Australia Open in 2020? In the name of “health”. The guy is the picture of perfect health.

When Dutch politician Geert Wilders was interviewed by the downright piece of shit Andrew O’Keefe on Channel 7 in 2013. Laughing in his face disparagingly when Wilders spoke nothing but his views backed by solid social data from the immigration situation in the Netherlands.

Watch a mash-up of that interview here, I couldn’t find the original video anymore as I’d say it’s been taken down from old mate Andrew’s appalling antics since.

My favourite example is when Dr. Jordan Peterson visited Australia and appeared on ABC’s (government media) Q & A program in 2019.

An overweight young woke woman condescendingly asked if he had any real advice for young people, who are (apparently) at risk of climate change, instead of just telling them to clean their rooms.

Jordan’s point was how can people solve complicated world issues without fixing up their own lives first;

E.G. Cleaning your fucking room. Fair enough.

He also says “Do you think you are better off than your grandparents?”

I’ve read his book and he talks about this often.

People generally can’t comprehend the struggles of human history.

Stories from my grandparents quickly came to mind. Stealing turnips from farmers’ paddocks just to feed a family of 10 children. With a chance of being subscripted into any of the two world wars that happened within a short period of 20 years.

After that period, some small downturns and minor periods of rough times but overall in the developed West, life became exponentially very good.

Now that leads me to today and the wokeness virus we see infiltrating society, becoming stronger every year.

I love that saying. “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

Woke people could be considered weak people from the easy times in the developed West. Please note, that I’m focussing on the developed Western countries (such as Australia, Canada, Western Europe, and the USA) and not developing countries with real issues related to corruption, poverty, and violence.

This is such a broad topic that could down rabbit holes for hours, and probably no one would have the patience to read that. So let’s go down a recent woke tragedy and later focus on my experiences in Australia.

I’m going to lump the woke culture in with the outspoken “get your experimental vaccine” COVID crowd. We all should be familiar with how the woke brigade loves to make things personal.

During COVID, anyone who walked out of the house to exercise a basic human right of being able to walk down the street to buy food was called a grandma killer.

The most bizarre part of all this, the majority of people who were saying such a silly thing weren’t those uneducated at the bottom of society, they were the educated class.

This got me thinking. How does such a person, a product of a highly educated and successful society come around to saying such a stupid thing, completely ignoring common sense and human rights?

It’s a product of easy times.

These people haven’t struggled and have adopted woke culture.

I was at university 12 years ago and woke culture was incredibly influential then.

So much so that during my first year I voted for The Australian Greens political party, which is now the third-largest political party in Australia.

The Australian Green Party is probably the biggest danger to the quality of life in Australia. For an Argentine reference, you can consider them the Kirchnerists of Oceania.

They basically just hate everything Australia.

An incredibly socialist, hypocritical, and woke political party that gains more support every year, mostly from the young university crowd. Once upon a time, they may have stood for something good. But you can guarantee now they are an absolute country destroying scum.

How did it come about that I voted for these muppets? Well, a look back on my lecturers and tutors would be the answer. Geography was the class was the most popular class that I attended (I studied a Bachelor of Science - Geology). Many Bachelor of Arts students study this as part of their useless degrees (need I say anymore?).

I found out later that the lecturers and tutors were members of The Australian Greens party. I can only imagine what it’s like today as they have much more political power. I often look back on the propaganda from this immensely popular woke discipline.

I remember I was in a human Geography workshop and I strongly supported developing nations burning fossil fuels for energy. That’s the roadmap we used to generate a prosperous society and pull people out of poverty.

The blank stares and emotional responses I got from this.

I remember being overwhelmed by the “this redneck doesn’t think like the rest of us” vibe for the remaining years in that discipline.

Bear in mind the Blundstone boots for fashion-wearing hippies at the University of Tasmania generally don’t take too kindly to a redneck (me) from a small Tasmanian country town. These people have had life so good. They live in their own little sheltered bubble and have no idea how the real world works.

My point is Universities can breed woke socialist idiots. I raised this in an interview recently, if a Geologist has a Ph.D. or shiny honors qualification contrary to what you might think, it’s not necessarily a good thing for a company. Hyperintelligence usually comes at a cost in other areas, such as poor people management or lacking plain old common sense.

Another problem with today is that once upon a time you could escape university and go and work for a company and put the woke bullshit behind you.

Chances of doing that these days? Getting smaller.

I experienced this firsthand and found that the first company I worked for was great.

A smaller resources miner focused simply on mining and exploring for minerals.

I benefited from this setting and enjoyed my time while learning a lot from very smart people.

I don’t want to say too much about the next company I worked for but let’s just say I recently saw a decorated mining manager, one of the smartest and most well-spoken professionals with a career expanding 30 years, including working in the war trenches (metaphor) of West Africa, attending some very questionable woke conferences (likely part of his job role).

I also know a guy who was fired from his job for highlighting results regarding crime statistics committed by certain local people in his hometown. He had lived there for 30 years and his remarks we not racist but an observation backed by the actual crime statistics.

I fear the day the bulge of wokeness that has infected universities for many years moves into positions of power in society. We are just starting to see it happen, like I said I experienced this in university 12 years ago, imagine the situation now. You could escape it once you began in the workforce, but even that is becoming tough as companies move towards wokeness (ESG).

There is some hope. The fall of company profits (creating hard times) from going woke may see a rejection of the woke movement in the future. I’m counting on this.

“Go woke go broke”

Light at the end of the tunnel? I hope this catches on by making people's lives who think like me more bearable.

Hopefully, this trend continues and we return to companies focussing on being companies and not virtual signalling Disney movies.

If you’re working in the West and you desire a break from it all or simply value speaking your mind and open dialect. I recommend considering moving to Latin America and living life on your terms. Writing about this stuff feels very liberating. Try it out sometime.

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed that and are having a great weekend.

Cheers,

Jordan - Geólogo Trader 🇦🇺