The Don Quixote Generation

"[With] his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that any madman in this world hit upon... he fancied it was right and requisite... that he should make a knight of himself..."

- Cervantes, Don Quixote

The last two generations are misnamed; they aren't “the millennial generation” or “generation Z” - they are the Don Quixote generations - hallucinatory generations utterly impervious to reality.

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If you want to understand what we are dealing with in the Woke, read this and take notes.

In Cervantes' novel, we find a man, Don Quixote (DQ), with heaps of free time, who has ceased caring for his property, for work, and even for recreation. We find a man who has immersed himself in tales of gallantry:

...the above-named gentleman, whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round), gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardor... that he almost entirely neglected... his field-sports, and even the management of his property...

In short, the character DQ and the Woke DQs stroke their political erogenous zones by binging on the righteous actions of others and then they become monomaniacal about do-gooding.

One of DQ's servants in the novel often heard DQ mumble to himself, “I desire to be a knight.” If you listen closely to the Woke, you'll hear them whispering the same thing.

To be a knight is a noble impulse; however, the problem for the Woke is that there are no more (or very few) dragons left - America and the West are mostly radically just places.

But like the character DQ, the Woke must create their monsters - they must see run-of-the-(wind)-mill conservatives as fascists in order to have a grand life mission. If everyone is pretty decent what will they do all day? 

I want to point out a vital but totally overlooked part of the famous tilting at windmills scene from the book. Let's read:

At this point, they came in sight of thirty windmills, and as soon as DQ saw them, he said to his squire, "Look there... where thirty monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay!..."

DQ thus fell upon the first mill that stood in front of him; but as he drove his lance-point into the sail, the wind whirled it around with such force that it shattered the lance to pieces, sweeping its horse and rider to the ground!

This episode is well-known, but not many catch what happens after DQ has been pummeled by the windmill he thought was a monster.  Does DQ observe the error in his ways? Certainly not, instead he gives a demented explanation for what just happened to him:

"Hush, [squire]," replied DQ, "the fortunes of war, more than any other, are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover, I think, and it is the truth, that [a Wizard] has turned these monsters into mills in order to rob me of the glory of vanquishing them..."

That's the real peril of DQs right there—DQs employ "(black) magical thinking" to explain away good news (e.g. there are no monsters) and to keep their knight-errant quests alive.

We've all seen videos of those who, when confronted with indisputable facts that legitimately and thoroughly obliterate their false convictions, do not give up those convictions. They are infuriatingly intransigent. They are viciously thrown to the ground by the windmills of fact, and instead of admitting they were regrettably misguided, they resort to preposterous claims of being deceived and/or broach paranoid conspiracy theories to defend their fraudulent worldviews. It's cognitive dissonance in its most baleful form, as it's a delusion for the sake of a great moral cause. 

For example, when they are told some popular conservative is a rank bigot—a monster, if you will—and then they scour all of his content and find nothing to suggest he is a racist, does it matter to them? Of course not. They will fabricate an explanation for the lack of prejudice. "Ah, racists today are crafty," they'll think, "they wear the guise of colorblind attitudes to hide - and often these bigots don't even know they are racist, as white supremacist culture has put them under a trance of unconscious racist possession." There are endless examples of this sort of thing. 

In the end, they really want to “punch a Nazi” but end up coldcocking a grandma who voted for Romney. 

None of this suggests that there cannot be real monsters. Just because police shootings of unarmed African-Americans are not at all widespread doesn't mean there are not racially motivated police shootings. Sane people can honestly investigate claims and determine the true scope of potential evils.

Further, there are real dragons in other parts of the world, where DQs wouldn't have to fake it. But DQs don’t actually want the real thing.

But here in the West/USA, they must fake it, and when too many people engage in such hallucinatory behavior, refusing to see that their enemies mostly exist only as figments of their imagination, it represents a significant threat to the stability of any society. What we have here isn’t just one man in the Spanish countryside, we have millions of DQs running about and they can bring ruin to good systems, institutions, and people.

Worse, these DQs feed off each other. Our Woke chevaliers become inspired as they watch TikToks of other demented DQs hurling tomato soup on Van Goghs, or reclining in rush-hour traffic (ambulances be damned), or caterwauling as guests try to speak on college campuses.

In sum, I suppose the two most terrible ironies of all this are that 1) they, the Woke, have actually become dragons that the sane must presently eliminate (with nonviolent argument, of course).

And 2), our DQ generations may bring their phantasmagorias of oppression into being (the far right isn’t called reactionary for nothing); they may spawn genuine dragons that real “knights” will have to duel with at some point in the (near) future.