So Where Does Wokeism Come From? (Spoiler Alert: The French, of Course!)
18th May 2026
A French intellectual, who goes by Brivael Le Pogam on X, has written a tightly focused and brief explanation of it worthy of Eric Hoffer, putting his finger on the thinking of French philospher-historian Michel Foucault, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and French philospher-literary critic Gilles Deleuze, the first of whom claimed there was no such thing as truth, just power relationships, the second of whom claimed truth was malleable, and the third of whom made the really weird claim that seeds were greater than fully developed trees because becoming was more important than being, poor romantic devil.
Married to guilt-tripping academics of the U.S., he explains how wokery was the result.
His tweet is in French, but Grok translate kicks in on my site, so I will post the translation below the tweet.