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Jan 14, 2022
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Anti-Utopia #3, Woke #14

My rejection of utopianism is grounded in the belief that utopianism is inseparable from messianism and that messianism, above all in its secular iterations (the messianism of people of faith is a different issue), is a kind of moral category mistake: positing the end times without time actually ending. The claim that Woke is a k…

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