American Thinker Reports: Woke preaches superego, but practices id.

Sigmund Freud is perhaps best known for his enduring concept of explaining human behavior in terms of the superego, the ego, and the id.  The superego strives for moral perfection.  The id imposes selfish demands and primal urges.  The ego strives to maintain a realistic balance between the two.

Freud would immediately note that the woke preach and project superego.  To be woke is to be moral.  Wokeness is the moral beacon of society.  It demands that the unwoke take a deep dive into their subconscious and expel deep rooted, id-driven, immoral, implicit biases from their psyche.  The woke are committed to elevating society to a state of pure and collective moralism in which each individual neither falls victim to nor generates offensive thoughts, speech, or actions.

Freud knew that superego excesses, just as id or ego excesses, can lead to dysfunctional behavior.  Attempts to achieve moral idealism in a society are fraught with hazards.  Lao Tzu, 6th Century BCE Chinese philosopher, opined “……try to make people moral and you make them evil.”  Overly zealous moral activism is easily misdirected and generates unintended consequences.

Feminism is not advanced by demonizing toxic masculinity or by attempting to blur the line between the sexes with gender dysphoria.  Disadvantaged people of color are not lifted by demonizing white privilege.  Society is not strengthened by replacing merit with equity.  Rampant accusations of racism can serve to exacerbate rather than ameliorate it.  Criminal behavior is not lessened by handcuffing law enforcement.