The Wokus Dei Cathedral is finally collapsing, says Toby in his Spectator column this week. Almost overnight, MSNBC’s primetime audience fell by a staggering 53%, while CNN’s fell by 47%. Suddenly, the West’s prestige faith has lost its sheen. Here’s an excerpt:
Is the ‘Cathedral’ about to fall down? That’s the name given by the Right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin to denote the 21st century’s most prestigious intellectual institutions, particularly in journalism and academia. He’s talking about the BBC, CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. But we can enlarge the definition to include nearly all the West’s high-status institutions and professions. One of the mysteries of the Cathedral, he says, is that the people in these power centres seem to be members of the same cult-like religious movement – the Great Awokening, Wokus Dei – even though there’s no Holy See responsible for its official doctrine. Indeed, there doesn’t appear to be any central organising body at all. Yet the members of the Cathedral all march in lockstep as if they can hear some drummer that’s inaudible to the rest of us. …
In the past few months, large cracks have begun to appear in the Cathedral walls. … The catalyst was Donald Trump’s unexpectedly large victory, which seemed to sap the woke citadels of their aura of invincibility. Almost overnight, MSNBC’s primetime audience fell by a staggering 53%, while CNN’s fell by 47%. Suddenly, more people were tuning in to watch shows on the Food Network than they were to watch the stars of the liberal-Left media like Joy Reid, who described Kamala Harris’s campaign on election night as “flawless”. Reid was fired last week. …
These setbacks have contributed to a wider impression that the zeitgeist has moved on. Regurgitating the orthodoxies of the woke church used to be a way of signalling you were a member of the Brahmin elite, but since November they’re no longer high-status opinions. It was the social status automatically conferred on members of the Cathedral that played the role of the coordinating ‘invisible hand’. Its members’ almost supernatural ability to know which opinions would signal their superiority meant they didn’t need to be told what line to toe. It was communicated via osmosis.
Now, the illusion that their most passionately held beliefs are based on pure logic or ‘the Science’ is being shattered. The cross and the altar have become visible; they can finally see the walls of the Cathedral just as they’re beginning to fall down. In my more charitable moments, I hope they escape before they’re buried beneath the rubble. But at other times…
Worth reading in full.
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This reminds me of 1 Kings 18:26 where Wokus Dei = the priests of Baal
[The priests of Baal] called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made. [..] And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
2 Samuel 1 v 27: “How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of woke perished.”
PS my paraphrase: for ‘woke’ read ‘war’ in the original.
Nothing lasts unless based on the truth.
It was still tough for a while for Elijah and the 7000 who hadn’t “bowed the knee to Baal.” Funnily enough it was General Jehu of dubious and unpredictable character who God appointed to finish the business when he became king. What does that remind me of???
John Swinney still seems to think men can be women, at least in public, but look how uncomfortable he is when he has to answer the question. Just another woketard that happens to be a man. Duplicitous coward! Quite a lot of them about, isn’t there?
”Let’s be honest: he doesn’t really believe trans-identified men are biological women. Literally nobody does. The real question for politicians like this is, are you pretending to believe it out of fear of telling the truth, or because you think it’s personally advantageous?”
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1894823646486511841
Top comment;
”Genderism is a toxic belief system.
It convinces emotively, and bypasses rationality in believers.
Think communism & fascism, it works on the same behaviours.
Those who’ve enabled harms in its name (the SNP!) can’t renounce their belief, as this would mean ADMITTING to the harms!”
“he doesn’t really believe trans-identified men are biological women. Literally nobody does.”
100%. Same with most of this other bollocks about “equality”.
Dr Beth Upton does:
“A transgender NHS doctor who got changed in front of women colleagues has claimed to be a biological female.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/10/im-biologically-female-insists-trans-nhs-doctor-born-male/
I think if you volunteer to have healthy bits of you cut off then you are bonkers. I don’t think anyone else believes you can “become a woman”.
If he’s still allowed to practice medicine I think he needs to resit the biology module.😳
This is great stuff! Excellent article by Lord Toby.
Near-universal belief in God Almighty may have nowadays faltered, but those magnificent medieval cathedrals, abbeys and minsters remain symbols of a quest for meaning that’s survived down the ages.
The opening blast of a Bach Mass, heard over half a century ago in arguably the country’s most iconic college cathedral, lingers to this day.
I somehow doubt the same will be said of the fashionable drivel lately emanating from some corners of some college senior common rooms, or released in the Christmas videos of the more progressive College Presidents, Masters and Mistresses.
Pendulum at last swinging back to sanity.
These changes are happening in the US with its guaranteed free speech and with Trump having smashed up the grip of the self interested, liberalese, group think on the media and social discourse. However, in Britain, the establishment is still rowing us in the opposite direction. This occurs due to the power of the establishment in Britain (the British class system is still alive and kicking); the absence of free speech (this has become much worse); and the capture of almost all of our institutions by a societal cohort that spouts this woke, DEI, garbage for their own personal gain. Little is going to change here without some major political upheaval.
Exactly.
We’re an SME bidding for a big contract with a global firm. They are insisting on seeing our DEI and CSR policies.
Of course, CSR not standing for Common Sense Regulations. 🙂