The Post-Woke Age?: Mamdani, AI Job Loss, & the "Vibe Shift"

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This is an Elleven Labs voice-over of an essay I released a while ago on my Substack titled "The Post-Woke Age: Making Sense of Mamdani, AI Job Loss and the 'Vibe Shift“ A Post-Woke Age,” (Part 3 of my Genealogy of Wokeism series). In this essay, I argue that the Fourth Awokening is exhausting itself while AI-driven white-collar displacement could produce a Fifth Awokening through a broader crisis of elite overproduction. I also examine the return of class politics, the appeal of neoreaction, whether a “woke right” really exists, Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the left’s inability to learn from defeat, and the political trajectory of the Palestine movement.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The Post-Woke Age
7:46 Is Woke Dead, or Is It Coming Back?
14:00 The Vibe Shift
19:47 AI and the Fifth Awokening
26:52 Elite Overproduction in STEM
32:59 The FIRE Industries and Bullshit Jobs
34:41 Blue-Collar Workers and the Producer Class
44:12 The Appeal of Neoreaction
46:52 Is There a Woke Right?
52:48 Rise of Class Politics Across Left and Right
55:46 Don’t Mess With the Zohran
1:08:59 Why Mamdani Won
1:13:39 It’s Not Just Optics. It’s About Truth
1:16:43 Anti-Left Propaganda Works Because Leftists Are the Propaganda
1:21:56 Why the Left Is Slow to Learn
1:28:19 Israel and Palestine
1:35:39 Bibliography/Footnotes

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