Paul Graham on the origin of wokeness

[jon-nyc]

Longish but excellent.

For those unfamiliar with him, he’s a cofounder of Y-combinator and helped launch many startups including Reddit, Twitch, Airbnb, etc. Before that he created an offshoot of LISP called Arc.

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

[Mik]

Spot on. Great article. I highly recommend.

Particularly liked this.

Curiously enough, the tolerant side of the 1960s left helped create the conditions in which the intolerant side prevailed.

[jon-nyc]

One thing I liked is the way he said that a proper explanation of its origins would account for why it happened when it did and not a decade sooner or later.

[jon-nyc]

For those who haven’t read it but are going to, do your old eyes a favor and crank up the font size a notch or three.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Paul Graham on the origin of wokeness:

One thing I liked is the way he said that a proper explanation of its origins would account for why it happened when it did and not a decade sooner or later.

Agreed. The timeline aspect is probably the most interesting part, as well as pointing out that it's really not a new phenomenon. The tolerant 60's were a reaction to the prigs of the day.