The Replacement Religion For Wealthy Elites
Ed West writes at Unherd:

It was the upper-middle-class who became radicalised during the 2010s, not the poor, with progressivism partly becoming a replacement religion but also reflecting the fact that upper-class wealth relied on globalisation. The culture wars that flared up were essentially the product of wealthy people in a wealthy society with no real, existential problems.

The real dark side of this "great awokening" was that, while woke capital lectured us on how progressive they were, they did so on the back of near-slave labour in China; while young western liberals convinced themselves that their countries were on the verge of fascism -- when they were in fact becoming more liberal than ever by almost every measure -- they were tweeting on devices made in a state where Muslims are put in concentration camps.

Political activists are the white blood cells of a country, and when society faces no real threats, they turn in on society itself, ripping up its institutions in a desperate attempt to rid them of non-existent dangers. And so social problems had to be essentially imagined and invented, and there were plenty of journalists and activists willing to imagine them.

Now society faces an actual threat, and meanwhile our devil's alliance with China has been irreparably damaged, it all seems so dated. Don't these people know that it's 2020?

It's just too easy to "cancel" people without even having to shower, get dressed, or leave the house.