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Wokeness is not a politics - by Sam Kriss

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Look at yourself. Look at what you’ve reduced yourself to

In a small glass display case in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum you can see a small black circle made of polished stone that once belonged to John Dee, England’s greatest-ever weirdo. This was his shew-stone, a magic mirror he and his scryer used to communicate with angels. In Dee’s own account, recorded in his Five Books of Mystery, this object was delivered to him by the angels themselves. One of them told him that ‘one thing is yet wanting; a mete receptacle. There is yet wanting a stone. One there is, most excellent, hid in the secret of the depth. In the uttermost part…

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