what if wokeness is substantially an intra-middle class red queen differentiation phenomenon
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Explication. Statics: managing wokeness requires social attentiveness and the ability to conspicuously play at hiding one's own status without actually surrendering it (h/t @sleep_murder). This is hard and costly to do, and so a credible signal of (social ability?).
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Dynamics: eventually people lower status pick up patterns of woke behavior, at which point its value as a signal of higher status is attenuated. So: on to the next level of wokeness! Plus ultra!
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Stray thought: like any popular ideology, performing wokeness requires managing lots of contradictions (both internal and empirical), and convincingly maintaining beliefs in spite of contradictions is (again) a credible signal of the ability to manage a demanding cognitive load.
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conspicuous cognitive surplus consumption
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