Lets see how this plays out

 Right - I'm supposed to start with some kind of impact sentence to 'arouse' the reader.

I'm not inclined to arouse my readers, they might get distracted and that could lead to dancing and the end of civilisation.

I will spell out my motivations for writing this.

It all comes from the fact that I would love to get into a debate about how the world is (as I see it) and how it should be (my opinion). 

My problem stems from the fact that the average person starts to glaze over when I start talking capitalism versus socialism, the social contract, personal freedom versus common good.

In the absence of equally dull people I find I can only get these ideas and frustrations out to an imagined audience.

If anyone should actually read this, take comfort in knowing that I am normally quite brief. I don't find myself punching out more than half an A4 page in anything I write about.

So - to my imagined audience I want to spell out what has been on my mind lately. Whatever 'woke' is it seems to be missing the point, all your dictates about what is or is not acceptable are not going to make anyone's life better. I will run with an assumption that the 'cancellers' think they are acting to better humankind.

So why is 'wokeism' missing the point? Because that movement has fallen into the core belief that the personal is political. If you wear leather you murder animals. If you struggle with misgendering trans people then you are an unsalvageable bigot. If you haven't boycotted Nestle then you don't care about their abuses. None of these are hitting the key problem.

The key problem - is our unquestioning acceptance of the current systems. Which systems? Well - we accept the power of the wealthy, we accept (implicitly) male violence, we accept a patriarchal system that hurts men as much as women, we accept a capitalist system that measures humans in economic terms. 

The real secret is that drag queen book reading is not a big deal. Our outrage has been redirected by certain wealthy old white men. There's so much anger and outrage about what are piddling issues. All fomented by rich white monsters (looking at you Murdoch). It's the equivalent of the magician misdirecting our attention while he steals our watch. 

What should be obvious is that we are getting ripped off - our media friends pump out manufactured outrage and shitty reality TV. All this while our wealthier betters have us over a barrel, taking our natural resources, running monopolies and all the while telling us to work harder for a better life. No one ever died wishing they'd spent more time at work.

Wake up you lot.