Why are archaeologists taking to anonymous online spaces to practice their craft?
In part because we have an inflation of young people, educated to around the postgraduate level, who no longer see a future in the academy, where jobs are almost non-existent, and acutely aware of the damage a single remark or online comment can do to a career. But also because we have a university research system that has drifted towards a political position that defies a common sense understanding of human nature and history. A young man entering full-time research interested in warfare, conflict, the origins of different peoples, how borders and boundaries have changed through time, grand narratives of conquest or expansion, would find himself stymied at every turn and regarded with great suspicion. If he didn’t embrace the critical studies fields of postcolonial thought, feminism, gender and queer politics or antiracism, he might find himself shut out from a career altogether. Much easier instead to go online and find the ten other people on Earth who share his interests, who are concerned with what the results mean, rather than their wider current political and social ramifications.
Wokism intends to destroy history and knowledge generally in favor of a new paradigm. The woke know nothing, not even what the new paradigm entails. The woke are credulous puppets of globalist financiers and the media they own whose aim is to reduce once-free people to abject servility. Insect-based foodstuffs, social media credit/banking systems, mandatory pedophile pride parades etc. and war on all who resist are our glorious woke future. Hopefully I’m wrong about this.
Wokism intends to destroy history and knowledge generally in favor of a new paradigm. The woke know nothing, not even what the new paradigm entails. The woke are credulous puppets of globalist financiers and the media they own whose aim is to reduce once-free people to abject servility. Insect-based foodstuffs, social media credit/banking systems, mandatory pedophile pride parades etc. and war on all who resist are our glorious woke future. Hopefully I’m wrong about this. We shall see.