Civil society in the US is mostly dead.

They’d probably be less shocked than we are. That generation saw the rise of totalitarian state powers and the military/corporate collaboration that accompanies it. James Chappell has a book (The Catholic Modern), and I think his thesis holds true for Chinese fascism and communism in the 30s too.

It's striking how quick some of gov office staffers and companies have been to rush to implement Trump's anti-DEI ethos, basically interpreting it as license to scrub all non-white people from historical past or present representation.

Congrats Jessica!!

People's dismissiveness of the term always seems a little strange to me, considering awakening is the classical/serious Buddhist aspiration. The MAGA people's mockery of being 'woke' always makes me think... 'ooohkay, so you want to remain stuck in the sleepy grips of greed, hatred, and delusion??'

Yep, I was testing ChatGPT and asked it some question about 20th century Chinese citizenship laws; it very confidently made something up though cited a real article; then when I pointed out that the cited article actually didn't address the topic at all, it was very apologetic about the error...