Ah the naivety of youth - time to talk to your grandparents - they tend to see things pretty clearly . They don’t fall for the loudest voice .
I'll take that as a back-handed compliment. I'll be 50 in a few years. The point of my post was that I'm not falling for it. Piers Morgan wrote a book on 'Wokeism' but when he was interviewed about it he was unable to justify anything other than the trans issue as being 'woke'. And that issue in itself is way more complex than being defined by using that term.
I’d just like point out that I’m a grandad who doesn’t get his knickers in a twist over things that don’t exist.
Yes, absolutely. Try Douglas Murray. The Madness of Crowds The War on the West The Strange Death of Europe (not so much about 'woke' etc, but a cracking read ahead of it's time, or just that he saw what was happening and questionned it before most others realised what was going on and where it was heading)
-> I could never bring myself to read something written by an individual as awful as he is. -> Just read up on him. What a strange individual. Exactly why (awful / strange)? And that likely sums up a big part of the problem! Why not listen / read THEN comment? I would find it hard to believe any normal, sane person could disagree with most of the content in those books. I really don't like James O'Brien as a person, but I often listen to him, and even to his books, as I want to hear alternative views, and on occasions find myself agreeing. I often think it's a massive pity that Christopher Hitchens isn't still alive. A giant. Would love to have heard him commenting on what is happening these days, although tbf he already was commenting (and destroying the arguments of) a lot of what is going on.
