The price of not being woke: resistance or stubbornness?

The cost of refusing to jump on the proge bandwagon: courage or stubbornness?

Embracing the easy option comes with an immediate reward; rejecting it does not. That is the trap of proge: society pushes people toward conformity with a discourse that promises inclusion but demands loyalty. Anyone who steps off script pays for it in social and economic opportunities. Yet a handful of voices argue that the easy path is an illusion, that behind the pogre mask lies a new orthodoxy just as rigid as the one it claims to fight.

The paradox of the proge critic is that they fight the system with the system's own tools. They use the same smartphone, the same operating system, the same search engine that funds the companies embracing the cause. Some point to this contradiction as hypocrisy, while others see it as simple pragmatism: there is no clean technological alternative.

What drives someone to refuse to dance to the tune of proge's total victory? Those who resist speak of an ability to see beyond the moment, of a survival instinct against a trend they consider disastrous. They believe history will judge this era as decadent, and they are waiting patiently for the bubble to burst. In the meantime, they accept the cost of being the odd one out at dinner, the one who does not trinc the sarracena consensus.

Truth, they say, is a long-term value. But in the short term, anyone who steps outside the official narrative loses points on the social market. Even so, some prefer consistency to comfort, even if the only reward is the satisfaction of never having given in.

In the long run, perhaps truth will prevail, but the short run pays the bills. And while the river flows on, the corpses of passing fads end up floating to the surface.