Wokism is an extremist religion. The West has not faced so powerful of an extremist religion movement since the 1600s.

One of the maxims inscribed outside the Ancient Greek temple at Delphi was “nothing to excess”. Aristotle expanded on this with his concept of the Golden Mean:

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, the one involving excess, the other deficiency . . . it is such because its character is to aim at what is intermediate in passions and actions. . . . 1

It is the nature of . . . things to be destroyed by defect and excess, as we see in the case of strength and of health. . . ; both excessive and defective exercise destroys the strength, and similarly drink or food which is above or below a certain amount destroys the health, while that which is proportionate both produces and increases and preserves it. So too is it, then, in the case of temperance and courage and the other virtues. For the man who flies from and fears everything and does not stand his ground against anything becomes a coward, and the man who fears nothing at all but goes to meet every danger becomes rash; and similarly the man who indulges in every pleasure and abstains from none becomes self-indulgent, while the man who shuns every pleasure, as boors do, becomes in a way insensible; temperance and courage, then, are destroyed by excess and defect, and preserved by the mean.2

Thus, for Aristotle, most virtues fall in the middle between two vices, one caused by excess and the other by deficiency.3

The concept of the Golden Mean does not apply to everything, but it applies to most things. Those who are mostly at the extremes in what they teach, believe, or practice are usually some combination of foolish, evil, and depraved.

Wokism is a religion mostly of extremes:

• It celebrates uncommon and unusual sexual behaviors to the point of sacralizing them, while disdaining mainstream sexual norms.
• It lionizes unconventional family arrangements and roles while scorning established, customary family structures and roles.
• It imposes extreme and contradictory standards to people depending on their race.
• It requires adherents to show excessive levels of compassion for some groups and a near complete absence of compassion for others.
• It seeks to eliminate established traditions and practices.

 

Footnotes:

1. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, part 9.

2. Same at Book 2, part 2.

3. Aristotle admitted that this principle did not hold in all cases. For example, it did not hold for things universally recognized as bad, such as adultery, theft, and murder. Same at Book 2, part 6.