John McWhorter at the NYT explains why wokeness will never truly go away, particularly its most virulent strain, i.e. ‘High Wokeness.’ … It’s depressing. But I have to agree. Unfortunately, there’s no stake-through-the-heart cure. It’s too much like a religion, providing a complete moralistic world-view mixed with old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone warnings of heretics lurking amongst us. … In other words: wokeness is also a spell.