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I tend to get the idea that "woke" proved itself somewhat able to give its most ardent practitioners some amount of clout and so it attracted the types of people who most ardently love clout. (David Leavitt is someone who provides a pretty decent example of this, I guess.)
And the David Leavitts are legion compared to the occasional true believer.
I think that this has resulted in two things:
Clout-chasers having to go bigger and bigger and Bigger and BIGGER each time to overcome the memetic antibiotic resistance
Normies noticing that the people who say "woke" stuff might be clout-chasing rather than justice-loving
This doesn't mean that woke won't return next week bigger and badder, but it does seem to have the feeling of the televangelist era following the televangelist scandals of the 1980's.
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