Modern cultural discourse is increasingly dominated by the phenomenon known as ‘Wokeism’, a social, linguistic, and ideological paradigm characterized by intense hyper-reactivity, categorical identity splitting, virtue signaling, and moral absolutism. While conventional sociology analyzes Wokeism through political or psychological lenses, this dissertation examines the phenomenon through 2.0 Metaphysics.
People with the lowest levels of competence in a domain consistently overestimate their own abilities, while high performers often underestimate theirs.
The “first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club,” as Dunning has noted, is that members do not know they belong to it.
Governments killed 262 million of their own people last century – that’s called democide.
This thesis argues democide only works because of People’s Stockholm Syndrome: when a population lives under constant state threat, isolation and propaganda for long enough, they fall in love with their kidnapper to survive, start policing each other, and defend the very system that is destroying them.