In this Lessons episode, explore how wokeness evolved from social awareness into a powerful cultural system.

Discover how the 2008 financial crisis merged activism with corporate interest to form woke capitalism,

understand how virtue signaling and hypocrisy divide society and weaken shared spaces,

and uncover why separating capitalism from democracy may be key to preserving American freedom.

How did wokeness get to this point where it started in, it started with, in theory, a good, you good you know there was there was good thought behind

why we should be woke why we should be more accepting why we should do all of these things to

perhaps get rid of some latent ideologies that are not so great that we see in society

how has it got to the point where it's almost gone to the other

end of the spectrum? And now what you're stating is that it's actually negatively impacting

society to a point. Yeah. Look, I think that when wokeness was born, it was about challenging

the system, about standing up to the system.

And agree or not, there's something about that that I respect for somebody who has the courage to stand up to what the prevailing system is.

Okay.

But today, I think a couple decades later, wokeism is no longer about challenging the system.

Wokism has become the system.

And I think that the untold story of how that took place actually traces back to the 2008

financial crisis when corporations were the bad guys.

The old left wanted to take money from the wealthy corporations

and redistributed to poor people. Agree or not, that's what the old left had to say. But there

was the beginning of this new woke movement that began to say, actually, the real injustice in

society wasn't poverty per se. It wasn't economic injustice per se. No, it was racial injustice and

misogyny and bigotry. And after 08, that actually presented the opportunity of a generation

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