Ep. 1677 Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Woke – MIND BLOWING!!!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">In this episode, we’re talking about Thomas Sowell, one of the great intellectuals of our age, as he blows our minds on the origins of wokeness.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong style= "mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang= "EN">Highlights: </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9.0pt;" xml:lang="EN"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style= "font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span></span> “The subtitle is Self-congratulation as a basis for Social Policy. In other words, people who think that everything is wrong with the country is due to the fact that other people are just not as smart as they are, and if only they could, or people like them could take over and make our decisions, we'd be so much better off."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9.0pt;" xml:lang="EN"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style= "font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span></span> “So you get this notion, this very widespread notion that my freedom and happiness is dependent on these technocratic elites being in power.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9.0pt;" xml:lang="EN"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style= "font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span></span> "Wokeness in effect, recasts everything in society as composed of two groups of people: an oppressor group, and an oppressed group, and we know who belongs to which group based on our race, our gender, and our sexual orientation."<span s