There is no such thing as a Woke virus.
Parasites of the mind “In the same way that brain parasites have evolved to take advantage of their hosts in the furtherance of their evolutionary objectives, parasitic viruses of the human mind (devastatingly bad ideas) function in a similar manner. They parasitize human minds, rendering them impervious to critical thinking, while finding clever ways to spread across a given population (for example, getting students to enroll in women’s studies departments).” So writes Gad Saad in The Parasitic Mind , a book-length complaint about “mind viruses” like “postmodernism, radical feminism, and social constructivism”, all of which are “bound by the full rejection of reality and common sense.” Saad is not alone in his analysis of “woke” ideas. In the past several years, talk of the “woke mind virus” has itself gone viral among right-wing culture warriors. In a recent interview , Elon Musk alleged that the mind virus had even killed his child. What he meant was not that it ha...