“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world.”
~Kenneth Minogue

As I’ve written here, the end game to wokeness is Evergreen State. There is no interest in addressing human suffering, no means to enhance human flourishing. For example, BLM and its allied CRT partners have not shown any interest in improving education. They offer nothing to the many schools where almost none of the students are proficient in math or English, other than to eliminate grades (and thus accountability), as in Portland.

Keep in mind that a magazine is not necessarily about science just because the word “Science” appears in the title. As economist Thomas Sowell pointed out: “When examining institutions, it is critically important “to distinguish between (1) examining issues and institutions in terms of their process characteristics versus (2) examining them in terms of their proclaimed goals or ideals….” Knowledge and Decisions (1996).

George Orwell, once again, is spot on in his quote:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

To echo Orwell’s concern: Wokeness is power-seeking in the absence of any plan for what happens after existing institutions are hollowed out. It is Chesterson’s Fence on steroids. It’s a blind faith that one can achieve more than the Enlightenment merely by wishing and hoping.