From woke to awake

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

How quickly the narrative changes.  

I like how the progressive (including myself) managed to make the a somewhat natural thing fail. It seems we managed to make the grass roots grow to an authoritative canopy that blocked the sun.

It got superficial. The woke movement became largely driven by activists, HR departments, discrimination lawsuit fears, rainbow capitalism, and straight PC warriors turning it to a virtue signaling arms race. Which spread to the electorate that tried to keep up with their own progressive leadership mandates. DEI in government was elected and then quickly regretted. And rejected by consumers.

It was a temporary representation of what people wanted for a moment in 2020. People wanted and voted for an end to hate, and that resulted in enforced safe spaces and everyone trying one up each other in ushering in this grand new way....

... which became overbearing, pandering, preachy, transparent, fake until every commercial/show/movie had a United Pronouns of Bennaton thing going. Disney really bought into it (to atone for their past racism and sexism) and now their movies have to jump the woke shark to counter their history of white privilege. Which included turning almost every 80s girl's favorite red-headed aspiring hominid into a way to shake things up and break ground. They basically did a 70s exploitation thing for a progressive statement.

If they wanted to really shake things up they would've done the Hans Christian Anderson version where Ursula wins and Ariel kills herself. Like protagonists in all Danish (Germanic) children's stories.

They changed the movie I watched hundreds of times in the name of transparent pandering. And as they intended, it ruined it for me to some degree.

Which was brilliant on their part because I asked myself, "Well, why am I so turned off the recessive white people traits were given back their melanin? Is it really arbitrary how she looks? Would a Latina mermaid do the same thing? Yes."

I determined I had an inherent preference to see a red-headed white mermaid. And the discomfort of changing that was exploited. Touché, Disney. I see you do overt psyops now. It must cancel out Dumbo.

But I'm glad to hear a black girl say that I'm not a total racist with that.

I just don't see it as something to wake up too. People have always been pandering herd-minded followers with cultural preference, which can change often. And people are prone to taking everything too far.

ETA:

It's just a variation of changing normative values. And I'm worried not viewing it in context with its predecessors can also backfire and lead to an abrasive replacement form that removes the Bolsheviks woke influence from society as part recapturing greatness and stopping unconfortable change. Positive progress destroyed because the totally of it got too overbearing.