The Woke Cycle
30-year cycle theory vindicated
It’s official: wokeism is receding. I was wrong. Everyone else was right.
The shifts are quite dramatic, especially for supporting immigration. Previously, I was skeptical of whether the decline of wokeness was even real, and argued that the decline was an artefact of the movement becoming more positive:
The reading of the chart is correct, but the error lies in the interpretation: positivity and negativity are not different sides of the same coin, as negativity motivates people more than positivity does.
