Three Pillars of Wisdom

A sharp analysis portrays wokeism and political correctness as modern tactics to upend long-held privileges in favor of newly empowered interest groups. It asserts that, beyond labels, power remains a battle between monarchical and oligarchic forces driving divisions in politics, religion, and law. “Wokeism” and, before it, “Political Correctness” are attempts to replace traditional privilege with a new privileged class of special interest groups that have supposedly been discriminated against. In Three Pillars of Wisdom, Dr. Michael Arnheim argues that that there are and always have been only two forms of government: monarchy and oligarchy, regardless of the labels placed on them, and that politics, religion, and law are all fields of contention between “in” and “out” groups.