For the progressive West, the woke opening of the Paris Summer Olympics and the scandals of the women’s boxing matches have had very unintended consequences.
We are witnessing a process in which the woke ‘culture’ is completely subjugating the Global West and which is unacceptable in the countries of the Global South. The so-called progressive states, having embraced the woke way of life, did not stop at the borders of the inventors of this ‘culture’, but wanted to ‘export’ it at all costs.
But the transplant of woke into other countries had the opposite effect to that anticipated by the Global West. The overwhelming majority of the states of the Global South are strongly traditionalist and even deeply religious — think of the peoples of Latin America, where Catholicism is almost a state religion — and in these societies what they saw at the Olympic opening did not fit.
In summation, belonging to a nation and having respect for tradition — religion has a big part to play here — has completely rejected what the Olympic opening was trying to send to the world. The message of the woke opening of the Olympics was a direct consequence of a Western philosophy that provides considerable ammunition to the forces that want to preserve the traditional values of the Third World.
The message of the Olympics opening ceremony and the scandals surrounding women’s boxing to the developing world was nothing less than their world being turned upside down by those who had invented it. It is safe to say — perhaps it has not yet been fully exposed — that the desecration of Christianity has not only caused a justifiable outcry among Christians. Members of other faiths have also wondered whether, if it could be done to Christianity, it could be done to their faith.
The conflict between North and South was sharpened by the war in Ukraine, and the differences between the two camps became increasingly “visible.” The states of the Global West quickly began to create the conditions for the internalization of the woke ideology that Southern societies could not process. Russia, on the other hand, has been equally quick to take action against ideologies that go beyond the norms accepted by the majority of society. A crisis of values, or perhaps one could say a crisis of civilization, has emerged between the two sides.
It is therefore understandable that the conservative Global South quickly found its way to Moscow in this situation. The Western intellectual influence, which had gained and maintained a strong position in the Third World in the fields of culture, lifestyle, and worldview, had become completely empty and lost all its appeal.
And for all this, the Russian leadership did not even have to lift a finger.
