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Not that long ago, it was used to mean something good. It was probably around early covid when it started twisting into a pejorative. Before that, it meant being awake to the realities of the world, aware of the violence inherent in the system.
personal aside:
I heard it a lot in the psychedelic community. People would talk about "waking up." At first I thought that meant there was some spiritual dimension that I could emerge into with the dissolution of my physical form. After more experience with powerful psychedelics I realized that the hidden "spiritual reality" was really the same material world, only with the knowledge of the interconnectedness of all beings. People of all backgrounds, livestock and wild animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, waterways, soils, and the atmosphere itself. All of it is interconnected and dependent on each other, and deserves to be treated with kindness, compassion, and respect. So many of the problems of the world are due to our failures to do those things. It's hard to have such a revelation without becoming a leftist, but for many people that takes a lot of deconditioning and deprogramming from the subconscious patterns ingrained in them since childhood.Maybe just sneak some LSD into the water and see how long people stay "anti-woke"