Wokeness
topic on 4 shows · 11 statements across 9 episodes
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
11 statements about Wokeness, every show
Sacks: Gen Z is becoming super conservative due to wokeness backlash
“I mean, if you look at the polling, this generation of kids are like super conservative because it's a big reaction to wokeness being shoved down their throats.”
Balaji Srinivasan: Financial collapse drove legacy media to adopt ideological wokeness
“This is actually what led to wokeness because it was, you know, you've heard the saying go woke, go broke, right? Yeah. But in their case, it was actually go broke, go woke. Okay. Not my original coinage, but applied to this graph, it's relatively original bec…”
Hughes: Wokeness and DEI peaked in 2021-2022 and have since declined
“Whether you want to call it wokeness, DEI, or intersectionality, it peaked in 2021 and 2022, kind of in the shadow of George Floyd and BLM protests and riots, and it has declined since then. I think there's no doubt about that.”
Patel: Wokeness functions as a replacement for religion in secular society
“There's always going to be the same amount of religion in a society, and if it's not going to be a historic world faith, it's going to be a political ideology, right? Or it's going to be, like kind of a cultural phenomenon. Like, I think that that, I think tha…”
Urban: Wokeness is a far-left, postmodern, Marxist ideology
“I think wokeness is two things. It's a far left ideology, and it is far left. It's, you know, postmodern, and it's Marxist, and that's fine.”
Srinivasan: Woke ideology cannot win in pseudonymous crypto environments
“That army of wokeness, that ideology can win on like, you know, centralized social media platforms, English internet. But once you start going pseudonymous, once you start having cryptocurrency involved, once you start Going international and having people abr…”
Cowen: Wokeness stems from 17th-century Protestantism and Puritan moralizing
“I see some of that, but I also see wokeness is stemming from 17th century Protestantism. And a certain kind of moralizing and part of the Puritans as well, basically.”
Balaji: Wokeness is the redistribution of status via social media mobs
“It's a, it's capitalism compatible, you know, radical left, actually, in the sense that, you know, with communism communism was the redistribution of wealth and wokeness is the redistribution of stats. You know, communism had, you know, the union strike and wo…”
Srinivasan: 'Woke' movement will prove self-destructive due to inflation
“Well, I think it's going to be self-destructive because of inflation, but not necessarily because of its internal.”