Who's drinking the Kool-Aid?

Addressing my critics

In celebration of reaching a thousand subscribers, I’m addressing the three most frequent criticisms from you all. The cultural views I’ve rejected are simplistic explanations for the world, and we should know intuitively that such ideas can’t explain the endless complexity of our society. These views also become excuses for chasing desire over wisdom. I want a life of spiritual fulfillment over that of desire, but this is not how American liberal culture is oriented, so my writing makes some people angry.

The three buckets of critiques from readers:

First, I’ve been drinking the anti-woke Kool-Aid. Second, I’m a closet conservative or Republican. The third is that I’m so far in the anti-liberal feminist camp that I’m a contrarian, which I guess means I’m a closet traditionalist who wants women to return to the kitchen.

This is my id, Hegel

Am I drinking anti-woke Kool-Aid?

First, let’s parse the idea of drinking the proverbial Kool-Aid. For anyone unfamiliar, this term originated when the…