According to Wikipedia, a utopia is a “draft of a possible, future, but usually fictional way of life or social order that is not bound by contemporary historical-cultural framework conditions. The term derives from ancient Greek ou ‘not’ and tópos ‘place, location’.” 447
Woke goals such as equality and sustainability are based on idealistic utopias. The longing for utopian possibilities underlies almost all new-left movements. In new-left, utopian metaphysics, humans have fallen from an original state of perfect equality and natural harmony into an unequal and inharmonious world.448
The continued existence of, for example, hierarchy, poverty, violence, inequality, and unresolved environmental problems requires explanations that identify the dominant power structures (see Oppression). To break these ominous structures, all relevant societal processes must be fundamentally problematised (see Socialisation and New Left).449 The only areas exempted are those already fully controlled by woke ideologues.
By disguising woke ideology as science, the utopian detachment from reality of woke thinking remains hidden at first glance. However, wokeness is utopian (and detached from reality), as empirical checks of woke theses against reality cannot be drawn as long as power structures continue to be responsible for problems.450 Moreover, woke utopias require control over the discourses (see Social Constructivism). Sceptical viewpoints that point to a non-woke reality therefore stand in the way of realising the woke utopia.