Steven Lubka

ON THE GENEALOGY OF WOKENESS
Most people misunderstand the origins of contemporary "woke" ideology
It was not produced by academia, but by teenagers on Tumblr. The internet, and fragile, impressionable young people birthed something so viral it captured American politics
In the 2010s young people were both finally very online, and the platforms advanced enough to promote high speed interactions at scale. A far cry from Myspace and even Facebook that promote interactions with people you *know*.
The feed, and the ability to scroll were recently invented, and teenagers had no defense against it. This takes place right after the victory of Obama, and surging optimism to put the racial divide behind us
Tumblr surges to popularity specifically among young girls. It was a place for girls to participants in "Fandoms". A fandom is where fans of a particular type of media (Harry Potter, Twilight) gather to share their love of this content. It also became interested in social justice.
These interactions began to take over the lives of a segment of young women who were more active online than in real life
While they came to the website to fantasize about Edward and Jacob from Twilight, they became constantly bombarded with social justice messaging in the dawn of the endless scroll
Now where did these ideas come from? The concepts they were exploring came from early Marxist academics from the 60s and 70s who were part of the "long march through the institutions". I use Marxist literally, not rhetorically, they were literally Marxists
It's crucial to recognize that while Marxist philosophy influenced these ideas, the express form of wokeness we have dealt with is not academic or even marxist in origin.
It is fundamentally *teenage* in origin. It is a teenage philosophy, and even a female philosophy. I say this with care, not to provoke gendered resentment.
But one cannot understand wokeness without understanding teenage girls. This is not of the mind of a teenage boy.
To be a teenage girl is many things, and many more I cannot understand, but one thing is to be socially permeable. Teenage girls are not designed to sense social demands and pressures and *then reject them in place of their own well formed ideals*. They are fundamentally susceptible to social pressure in a profound way.
And so what you observe on Tumblr is a type of chain reaction. A Lord of the Flies Island where an ideological virus is allowed to incubate into its most viral form.
When this ideology finally spreads to American society, is when these Tumblr girls attend college. This is why people commonly associated wokeness with academia
But they have the direction of causality inverted. The teachers did not indoctrinate the students. The students infected and terrified the teachers. Now, some of those teachers were all too happy to go along with it, but still it was these young people who brought it to academia.
From this point the rate of spread rapidly increased, and it starts to influence the real world. Academics have influence and students graduate.
In 2013 this ideology was raging inside colleges, I was there!
By 2016 it was raging inside politics at a national stage.
The Democratic party became profoundly infected. And this has continued to this day, although it started weakening post COVID.
Cancellations became prominent in even corporations. Again, a cancellation is a fundamentally female method of social organization. Men do not cancel other men for saying an idea which is outside the norm.
They either argue, or fight.
Cancellation is yet another example of how, respectfully from my part, we are dealing with a feminine ethic from Tumblr. Girls cancel other girls. Look at any middle or high school. It isnt hard to see.
Why is it important to recognize the origins of wokeness?
Because the Left must fundamentally understand they have been led by teenagers. And they must turn to adults yet again if they seek a future in American politics

2024-11-09 14:21:45 UTC

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100% agree, and you are correct, but to address the problem we must understand the origins. And few people get where this thing actually came from.
Ideologically, the country has been run a One Direction and Twilight fandom for a decades.

2024-11-09 14:12:10 UTC

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Wokeness as we currently know it was a Tumblr phenomena. It was created by teenage girls reading academic writings by Marxist academics. This may sound like a dogwhistle but it's simply a description of where the current form of gender and identity politics came from. Everyone gets the genealogy of this thing wrong.
This internet and fundamentally teenage phenomena then was transmitted to the universities *by the students*. It was not imposed by the professors.
However, quickly the inmates were running the asylum and the culture of elite academic institutions was changed profoundly by what the students demanded. Colleges either embraced or bowed to be pressure.
When students graduated and entered the workforce and politics, this hit it's full stride in the period you mention post Obama.

2024-10-19 15:58:14 UTC

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1) How about you shut your lyin' mouth
2) Ben, why do you hate your circadian health?

2024-09-04 19:04:40 UTC

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Ladies and Gentlemen, cultural victory
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2024-08-27 13:34:10 UTC

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Beautiful
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2024-07-28 18:12:17 UTC

Finally, yes. Walking maximalism everywhere all the time
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2024-07-28 18:09:36 UTC

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Me as well!!

2024-07-28 15:25:15 UTC

The sun finally decided to come out in Nashville
What an amazing week! Thank you to everyone https://image.nostr.build/877b934561f210d12615ebfa865cae965eff8f214c6c8c833200da6ecd059e8e.jpg

2024-07-28 00:06:42 UTC

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Regularly 💪💪💪

2024-07-27 23:07:26 UTC

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Many such cases
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2024-07-27 23:06:59 UTC

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Alright alright I am here let's do this
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2024-03-27 19:51:55 UTC

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Know Jack well 💪

2024-03-27 15:59:39 UTC

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Making this documentary with Max has been amazing 💪
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2024-01-28 15:02:18 UTC

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So true ☀️🤣

2023-11-08 15:57:50 UTC

Just the way this works
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2023-10-27 21:37:36 UTC

I'm here to stack sats and annoy communists, and it looks like I'm all out of fiat
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2023-10-15 17:04:22 UTC

Fiat has begun trying to print the sun
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2023-10-14 21:07:44 UTC

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Based

2023-10-14 20:21:39 UTC

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That's awesome! Yeah I was sitting around mid 300lbs on the deadlift a few months ago, but have been doing more hypertrophy work on my legs because they were lagging
My current bulk target is 235lbs!

2023-10-14 20:14:26 UTC

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212lbs now, 6'5

2023-10-14 18:04:50 UTC

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Yeah I think getting rid of excess volume + big focus on recovery and food has been key
I've read some papers on the circadian aspects of muscle growth
I'd love to see a control study because no one has measured this

2023-10-14 18:03:18 UTC

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Typo gluconic acid <> lignan fiber
It's a way of removing excess estrogen wastes
Either eat an apple or two a day or take calcium d-gluconate
Fresh ground chia seeds for the fiber to bind to the estrogen

2023-10-14 16:12:09 UTC

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Have you noticed a difference on how easy muscle growth has been? I'm really trying to figure out which variables made this go so differently
Congrats man! That's huge progress btw

2023-10-14 16:00:41 UTC

Up 40lbs since February. Really sudden change in my bodies response to training compared to prior years. I've changed a lot, hard to know which of these was the main factor but here's the list
- Sun Maxxin and strict circadian lifestyle
- Balanced GABA<>Glutamate, big drop in cortisol
- Testosterone significantly higher due to sun, lower cortisol, and gluconic acid<> lignan fiber estrogen flush
- Upped Magnesium, Taurine, and Glycine materially
- Focusing more on eating 5k calories per day and recovery than training
- Training is high intensity, low volume
Used to be hard for me to bulk, I am 6'5 historically skinny. No longer! Some sort of switch flipped
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2023-10-14 15:55:27 UTC

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I drink never, and buy Bitcoin frequently
Checks out
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2023-10-14 15:54:19 UTC

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Nailed it 🤣

2023-10-12 18:51:42 UTC

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Based

2023-10-12 18:35:44 UTC

Can you guys guess which hotel room was mine
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2023-09-12 13:47:44 UTC

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Not out the gate, but this should be possible and we are fully aimed at finding the right path for self custodial IRA

2023-09-11 21:38:16 UTC

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We've got some great developments rolling out shortly 🤘

2023-09-11 21:17:38 UTC

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This isn't the announcement but Swan Multisig launches next month

2023-09-11 20:47:29 UTC

Okay guys what's up. We are announcing some big stuff later today tomorrow. It will change the landscape of a lot of this discourse re: custody & Swan

2023-09-06 13:31:20 UTC

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Absolutely awesome chat! One of my favorites!
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2023-09-06 13:30:40 UTC

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I DROPPED THE BALL HERE AHHH

2023-08-23 14:18:58 UTC

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Okay, respectable 🤣 That's a good reason to not throw it 🤣

2023-08-23 14:00:15 UTC

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Lyn, if you don't throw copies into the audience from the main stage at Pacific Bitcoin.....
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2023-08-23 13:56:06 UTC

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Just ordered 🧐
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2023-07-22 01:19:14 UTC

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Let's go!!!!!

2023-07-15 13:44:08 UTC

I would be almost no one outside of the Bitcoin space thinks Bitcoin has basically done nothing but go up this year
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2023-07-12 23:54:58 UTC

Surely, the inability for economists and financiers to understand #Bitcoin emerges in the same manner
Excess abstraction leads these men to think in categories first 'a money must possess X, Y, Z' rather than encounter the phenomena itself
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2023-07-11 17:33:46 UTC

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Ah wait this is probably client shares

2023-07-11 17:28:54 UTC

Vanguard quietly buying 10% of RIOT
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2023-07-09 23:14:12 UTC

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THIS IS HOW IT WORKS

2023-07-05 14:12:54 UTC

If you really want to compete with China, offer any person from China a green card if they have an advanced degree
This would have a larger impact than anything else we have ever done

2023-07-03 18:07:50 UTC

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Would you like some psyops with your psyops today
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2023-07-03 14:34:51 UTC

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We running 1000 levels of monistic Idealism here bruv

2023-07-03 11:45:16 UTC

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The world is an illusion, only Brahman is real, the world is Brahman

2023-07-03 00:52:18 UTC

The yield is the zaps we made along the way

2023-07-02 17:17:44 UTC

Me, seeing people join Nostr
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2023-07-02 16:54:28 UTC

Trolls can currently comment on my tweets and it won't let me reply to them
Rage rage against the dying of the light

2023-07-02 15:45:41 UTC

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2023-07-02 15:36:43 UTC

Yesterday I learned most people don't even know what a resting squat is
You can just squat in the sun anon
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2023-07-02 15:35:29 UTC

Cryptos bros will do anything except use Nostr
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2023-07-02 15:23:20 UTC

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Same

2023-07-02 15:20:32 UTC

I currently cannot like, reply, or comments on any tweets on Twitter
Real nice

2023-07-02 12:43:27 UTC

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Resting squat sir, for the ancestors

2023-07-02 03:40:46 UTC

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🙏🙏🙏

2023-07-02 01:20:33 UTC

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This truth reaches beyond relationships with one's peers. It touches client relationships, the users of your products. This is at the heart of how I run the Private Wealth team, which is effectively Sales for Swan.
I tell every single member of our sales org during training:
1) Act like you work for the client, not me. Do what is in their best interest always
2) You build trust by revealing yourself. You can't just stick to the social script. You need to, tactfully, deviate and reveal yourself (interests, passions, real views on the world)
3) By doing this you not only put clients at ease because they are dealing with an actual human being not a sales person, but you open up a space for the client to reveal themselves as well.
4) Authenticity and Trust form the core pillars of our relationship with our clients, and should be the case for any business or entrepreneur
5) I give the example of Nietzsche's saying 'All strength is an excess of strength'. This means that Nietzsche believed true strength could only be known via excess, by doing things you didn't need to do.
It's the same in sales, client relationships, and business. It is by taking a risk and doing something which gives you absolutely no competitive advantage, that you actually build trust. You need to do something which may run the risk of actually being bad for you (risking judgement, negative reaction i.e- why is this guy telling me his thoughts on Nietzsche)
It's human relationship all of the way down.
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2023-07-02 00:58:54 UTC

I run the Private Wealth team for Swan. One piece of data from the front lines.... spot buying has been quite elevated!
Interest and demand for Bitcoin is ramping ⬆️

2023-07-02 00:49:04 UTC

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The marketing budget and team for truly decentralized protocols are centralized companies

2023-07-02 00:44:22 UTC

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AM sun straight to the cornea 🤙

2023-07-02 00:29:17 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣 nice one!

2023-07-01 20:18:54 UTC

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It's way smoother than I expected. Feels as easy as Twitter

2023-07-01 20:13:49 UTC

Circadian disruptions are implicated in almost all mental health and neurodegenerative illnesses
Return to the ☀️
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2868

2023-07-01 20:05:23 UTC

Rate limited? Go touch grass
Already touched grass?
Time for level 2 touching grass 👇
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2023-07-01 19:57:07 UTC

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Level 2 grass touching
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2023-07-01 19:52:00 UTC

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We're touching grasp, we are basking in the sunlight, we are stacking steps

2023-07-01 19:48:46 UTC

Florida summer sun + Outdoor deadlifts + Multiple cold plunges is literally as good as it gets
I'm posting from the plunge 🫡
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2023-07-01 19:47:36 UTC

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🫡🫡🫡 Update
Stacking sats, stacking steps, stacking sun

2023-07-01 19:47:12 UTC

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Updated sir, may we all stack sats, steps, and sun

2023-07-01 19:41:03 UTC

Sunlight, deadlifts, walking, cold plunges
Bitcoin