{"id":980737,"date":"2023-02-03T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T06:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273206"},"modified":"2023-02-03T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T06:40:54","slug":"woke-is-not-awake-to-confound-the-great-ones-we-need-our-baseness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/03\/woke-is-not-awake-to-confound-the-great-ones-we-need-our-baseness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Woke\u2019 is Not Awake: to Confound the Great Ones We Need Our \u201cBase(ness)\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;he who accepts the ambiguities of his culture without protest and without criticism is rewarded with a sense of security and moral justification. A certain kind of unanimity satisfies our emotions and is easily substituted for truth&#8230;In order to protect our common psychic security we readily become blind to the contradictions\u2014or the lies \u2013 that  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/03\/woke-is-not-awake-to-confound-the-great-ones-we-need-our-baseness\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/03\/woke-is-not-awake-to-confound-the-great-ones-we-need-our-baseness\/\">&#8216;Woke&#8217; is Not Awake: to Confound the Great Ones We Need Our \u201cBase(ness)\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/03\/woke-is-not-awake-to-confound-the-great-ones-we-need-our-baseness\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;he who accepts the ambiguities of his culture without protest and without criticism is rewarded with a sense of security and moral justification. A certain kind of unanimity satisfies our emotions and is easily substituted for truth&#8230;In ord&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980738,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980737\/revisions\/980738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}