1. What Wokeism Teaches (The Blueprint)

At its root, wokeism — originally — was a call for awareness. Stay “woke” meant don’t sleepwalk through injustice. It was about staying alert to systems of discrimination, inequality, and abuse. The premise was simple: open your eyes to other people’s realities, especially if yours has been comfortable. Understand power. Understand privilege. Listen before you speak.

In its ideal form, it sought to build a more just and empathetic society by acknowledging historical wrongs, dismantling systemic biases, and uplifting the voices that have long been ignored.

In short, it was never meant to be a movement of superiority — but of humble awareness.

2. How the Nincompoop Mind Rewired the Message

And then, of course, the Nincompoop mind did what it always does: it hijacked the message and made it about itself.

• Projection crept in early: People used social justice language not to challenge themselves, but to attack others. Guilt was projected outward. Anger was sanctified. “Calling out” became a performance of morality, not a path to truth.
• Social Mimicry took over: Overnight, people began parroting phrases they barely understood. Complex histories were reduced to hashtags. Slogans replaced thought. Online movements turned into purity pageants — people signalling awareness rather than practising it.
• Confirmation Bias hardened the bubble: Any dissent — even from within — was treated as betrayal. The movement lost nuance and became an echo chamber. “Listen to others” slowly became “only listen to those who agree with us.”
• Tribalism found a new flag: What began as inclusion splintered into factionalism. Competing grievances emerged. Victimhood became a form of social capital. Instead of solidarity, there was infighting over who was more oppressed, more right, more righteous.
• Heuristic Shortcuts butchered the complexity: Centuries of philosophy and ethics were replaced by quick-fix binaries. Everything was racist, or anti-racist. Good or evil. Oppressor or oppressed. No in-between, no grey area, no thinking required.

So what began as a plea for awareness mutated into a moral arms race — where shouting louder often mattered more than listening deeper.

3. What It Could Look Like Through the Nincompoop Lens

Seen through the Nincompoop lens, wokeism would drop the pretense of moral perfection and remember its original aim: awareness — of others and of yourself.

It would call out injustice, yes — but without the smugness of someone who’s never been wrong.
It would return to humility: the realisation that your good intentions don’t make you correct.
It would prioritise understanding over performance. Listening over branding. Dialogue over dogma.

There would be fewer witch-hunts and more accountability.
Fewer slogans, more questions.
And above all: a brutal honesty about how the mind — even when “woke” — can still be biased, tribal, and wrong.

4. What Wokeism and Nincompoop Have in Common

Oddly enough, a lot — when each is honest.

Both begin with the idea that there’s something deeply flawed in the way society works, and that blindness to those flaws is part of the problem.

But where Wokeism often assumes others are blind, Nincompoop says: you are too.
Wokeism says “check your privilege.”
Nincompoop says “also check your ego, your projection, your bias, your assumptions — all of it.”

Wokeism sees systems of injustice.
Nincompoop sees the flawed human minds that built and maintain those systems.

Both seek a better society.
But only one remembers that you don’t get there by pretending your side is immune to stupidity.