I'm with you, on all counts. And I think not wanting to touch USA's shit is a legitimate take right about now. Shit, it was the wrong take to back in 2001/2003, and it was the wrong take back in checks notes* most of US history, but right now for sure. We got our own problems now anyway, many of which were directly caused by the USA, so...
Hey look, aim for the stars is what my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather used to say before he ate all the mammoths.
Corporations are getting WAY too much fucking power over our personal lives, it's at critical mass where their power is superseding that of our basic democratic rights.
We all knew it would happen, and here we are. We need to fight the fuck back with everything we've got, and coordination and planning is the first step.
There has to be something already happening, where do we sign up, who do we get in contact with? Where's the team?
Does anyone know or have any leads on that? I have the possibility to devote my life full time to it and I'm feeling like me and many others are not being utilized the way we could and are capable of.
One is an attempt at a lexical definition, the other a judgment of it, those are different things, but you are definitely clearing something up here, because what I feel like I'm getting at is that there is one definition that is actually solid and makes sense- being socially aware, being aware of systemic racial and social injustice in general, and another where "being woke" is performative and is just being obstinate about everything and anything and demanding justice for unspecified grievances that one might not even have legitimate claims to.
I don't know if that makes sense to you but I think it's kind of the core of the matter, really.
But that is what it has grown into. A sweeping semantic and perfectly malleable construct that can occupy everyone's minds while the oligarchy just laughs and counts its money.
That stat only checks out if there's less than 50% assholes around you all day, which is a tenuous proposition at best.