Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.org,
A French intellectual, who goes by Brivael Le Pogam on X, has written a tightly focused and brief explanation of it worthy of Eric Hoffer,putting his finger on the thinking of French philospher-historian Michel Foucault, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and French philospher-literary critic Gilles Deleuze, the first of whom claimed there was no such thing as truth, just power relationships, the second of whom claimed truth was malleable, and the third of whom made the really weird claim that seeds were greater than fully developed trees because becoming was more important than being, poor romantic devil.
Married to guilt-tripping academics of the U.S., he explains how wokery was the result.
His tweet is in French, but Grok translate kicks in on my site, so I will post the translation below the tweet.
Grok translate, (with censorship from me of one cuss word that meansmerde): (emphasis ours)
I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).
We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.
We must understand what they did.
Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge.That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination.
Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning,that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme.
Source: ZeroHedge News
