{"id":13836,"date":"2021-08-02T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2021-08-02T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:31:15","slug":"incompetence-arrogance-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/incompetence-arrogance-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Outrage mob and cancel culture symbol or cultural cancellation and social media censorship as canceling or restricting opinions that are offensive to the public with 3D illustration elements.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we know, too, how such insanity\u2014from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism\u2014can spread, despite alienating most of the population, through fear and the threat of personal ruin or worse. These are the dark sides of the tulip, hula-hoop, and pet-rock fads, the mass obsessions so suited to past affluent Western societies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does wokeism serve another purpose as well? Specifically, does it either hide preexisting incompetence or fuel it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies.   We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness.   And we know, too, how such insanity\u2014from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism\u2014can spread, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3Ba","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13838,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}