Comment by Miner49er

> His whole argument is it's unimportant and performative, so then why did he spend all this time writing an article about it?

Arguably because a large portion of the population doesn't agree that it's unimportant and performative. Current culture is captured by the concept and collectively spends a massive amount of time worrying about it.

If you personally feel that this is a waste of time, how else do you communicate that if not by spending time thinking and writing about it?

I also think most meetings are a complete waste of time. The fact that many other people feel meetings are important directly impacts me, and just believing that they're a waste isn't good enough. It's necessary to actively push against something if you think that thing needs to change.

Because it comes with very real consequences, sometimes even criminal now.

He doesn't argue it's unimportant. If you took that away from the essay you didn't read it closely enough because it contains sentences like:

"College students larp. It's their nature. It's usually harmless. But larping morality turned out to be a poisonous combination."

If you're describing something as poisonous, especially if it's the behavior of a large group of people, then you're saying it's important.

> the fact he spends this much time thinking about wokeness

This is the first and only article I recall from PG about wokeness, is it part of some anthology that I've missed or where are you getting the "this much time" part from?