The Solipsism of Woke
You can’t debate a fantasy.
by Carl Nelson (January 2026)
My current thinking that it is the feminist demonizing of the male, which has made the world without male protection frightening, has fed this “snowflake” solipsism. —from the prequel essay to this, ‘Passing Through the Eye of a Needle’
Over the past few decades, it has been quite the fad to create movies with “strong female characters.” Anorexic models are cast as top shelf assassins and skilled combatants taking out all sorts of beefy bad guys. The movie “Kick-Ass” (2010) is a comedy/spoof of this trend which stars a 12 year old girl, Chloe Moretz. In fact, in modern times the movies have gifted women with every power imaginable: financial, political, physical, mental, sexual, artistic, intellectual, paranormal… You want it, they’ll craft it. The movies offer the same to every vulnerable group, but with women especially it’s rather of the mentality of choosing your own gender. And you can’t argue with fantasy.
But when the rubber of imagination meets the hard reality of the road, the feminine proves to be a very vulnerable nature. Like flowers, it has great beauty and attractiveness but is easily crushed. This is why it seeks physical protection while mentally attracted to fantasy, which is not constrained (nor threatened) by realities. Especially when a person’s needs and wants are supplied it is tempting to employ fantasy in a world of other areas. A fantasy is created by the emotional needs of the fantasist, and there is no arguing with that. It would be like arguing with the wind. With fantasies a person can supply the answers to every test and score 100%. Unless you felt like you may have missed one, and then it might be 95%. The point is you are very in charge of your life—as long as your credit card is not declined. This is a wonderful bubble to inhabit.
The ‘snowflake’ is a quite apt metaphor for the Woke mindset. For what would the world look like from a snowflakes’ perspective? In near all perspectives the world would look quite threatening to a snowflake’s existence, as the warmth of living will melt it.
The best that might be imagined is for them all to pack tightly through demonization of the perceived threats so as to resist the onslaught, or to clothe the nature of a fierce predator in an alliance—or both. In parlance with the motto, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” rather like a sheep’s wool covering the wolf’s features, the woke snowflake can be a useful camouflage for the wolf predator, rather like a pilot fish for the shark. It’s not uncommon to see the woke exposing their breasts or exhibiting nakedness. It is argued to be a protest against traditional patriarchal strictures. But it is also an extreme expression of vulnerability aka ‘virtue,’ which is the strong suit of the feminine, as is it’s sexual allure. “Weakness is provocative” was a favorite truism of Donald Rumsfeld, a former U. S. Secretary of Defense. This has been a common tactic used by woman since time immemorial, to mount their offense under a cover of sexy vulnerability; renting their ‘victim’s’ virtue, a societal ‘coin of the realm,’ to the highest predator.
Again in parlance with the motto, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” What to most minds would seem a completely irrational act, that is to form an alliance with failing economic structures (Marxism) and extremely predatory and aggressive male religion (Islam), has become the new wrinkle—and, ironically, suicidal expression in a pact against the Western White Male and his Civilization. With numbers great enough to bring down the Western democracies, they have literally opened the door to the wolf and virtue cloaked their enemies which will later cook and eat them in their victim-hood.
As Albert Norton Jr. describes it in his essay, “What Dostoevsky Tells Us About Totalitarianism,” when describing the woke nature of the revolutionaries in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed:
The woke don’t hate sane principles, they hate the sane. They inhabit the ideology; it fully defines them; they are nothing without it. That’s precisely how the bungling revolutionaries in this book behave, and how actual revolutionaries behave in all movements of nihilism, anarchism, and antifa-led madness.
Is their a better description of the Solipsism of Woke?
What kind of madness are we up against? Christopher Rufo discusses this in relation to a most current controversy, that is in whether or not Tucker Carlson should have given Nick Fuentes a platform and more pointedly (to Victor Davis Hanson’s thinking) given such a fawning interview and nodding in agreement with outright fabrications while he had some time earlier given such a hostile interview to his opposite, Senator Ted Cruz.
Both sides fail to understand the Nick Fuentes phenomenon. They take his statements seriously and engage with them in good faith. But Fuentes’s stated beliefs, while abhorrent, are not best parried by taking them at face value. Instead, the Right should consider him an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called ‘hyperreality’: a system in which the simulation of reality comes to replace reality itself.
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Under conditions of hyperreality, symbols of past phenomena lose their original meaning. Emptied out, they then circulate through digital media, where they drive the discourse and, while purely derivative, still spark real emotional involvement. In this way, the hyperreal becomes ‘more real than real,’ masking the true nature of reality.
Indeed, hyperreality, is very effective in directing crowds. For crowds do not think as an individual does. Gustave Le Bon’s book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, adds insights.
The characteristics of the reasoning of crowds are the association of dissimilar things possessing a merely apparent connection between each other, and the immediate generalization of particular cases. It is arguments of this kind that are always presented to crowds by those who know how to manage them. They are the only arguments by which crowds are to be influenced. A chain of logical argumentation is totally incomprehensible to crowds, and for this reason, it is permissible to say that they do not reason or that they reason falsely and are not to be influenced by reasoning. Astonishment is felt at times on reading certain speeches at their weakness, and yet they had an enormous influence on the crowds that listened to them, but it is forgotten that they were intended to persuade collectivities and not to be read by philosophers. An orator in intimate communication with a crowd can evoke images by which it will be seduced. If he is successful his object has been attained, and twenty volumes of harangues—always the outcome of reflection—are not worth the few phrases which appealed to the brains it was required to convince. (Pg. 39)
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a crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. An orator wishing to move a crowd must make an abusive use of violent affirmations. To exaggerate, to affirm, to resort to repetitions, and never to attempt to prove anything by reasoning (my underline) are methods of argument well known to speakers at public meetings.” (Pg. 29)
As Hitler noted, the crowd is basically feminine.
For the ruminating mind, all the released chaos of the woke Id creates great anxiety. Black Lives Matter, Global Warming, months of rioting in the Blue Cities, unbroken years of political fighting, rampant inflation, foreign wars, and the upside down nature of the current cultural normal are quite unsettling. This is part and parcel of Left’s “chaos strategy” (Victor Davis Hanson). The common citizen dearly wants these troubles to stop. And ironically, the only players able to quiet these waters are those same ones disturbing them. (Hint: It’s not Trump.)
The strategy employed is simple as the toddler’s tantrum. Give them what they want and they’ll stop. It is simple extortion practiced on the national level. And ironically, no one is more vulnerable to the volatility than the woke snowflake, who demand consensus, collaboration, safety and nurturing—and they’ll toss a tantrum until they get it. According to Albert Norton Jr.:
And yet, all is not chaotic all the time. The revolution is a staged and controlled process, and the existing bourgeois are unwittingly complicit in it because they run around giving assurances instead of warnings. It’s much like the “moderate” conservatives of today responding to leftist agitation excess by urging a return to “conversation” and political normalcy, but their normalcy is only a slow and measured capitulation rather than a sudden one. It preserves their standing but gives away civilization to the barbarians. This is the National Review wing of the conservative party, the Mitt Romneys and Bush’s, hapless von Lembke’s who urge “lowered temperatures” so we can get back to giving away the inheritance of Western civilization piecemeal rather than all at once.
Doesn’t this resemble the mother or father giving a reasonable, high level explanation to a misbehaving child, rather than a “because I said so.”
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Carl Nelson‘s latest book of poetry titled, Strays, Misfits, Renegades, and Maverick Poems (with additional Verses on Monetizations), has just been published. To have a look at this and more of his work please visit Magic Bean Books.