I just mentioned that book!
I'm very indebted to John Michael Greer's blog , which I was reading back in 2015, for helping me recognize how my entertainment industry white collar career primed me into voting in support of my own class interests against the blue-collar working class. He helped me see how both "Woke" activism and 4chan emerge from the same source of economic insecurity and blocked class mobility after the 2008 financial crisis.
The Millennials attacked us Gen-Xers in games and film using "Woke" as wedge issues to force us out. The ownership class, always looking for cheaper labor , were all too quick to accept their argument they were "hip to the kids, being younger" so it worked to a large degree. I was already management, but still had to deal with it. The result was over a decade of increasingly shittier, boring , broken video games, and an industry burning to the ground.
My friend in NYC book publishing, a woman, got pushed out by a younger female colleague who weaponized political language against her. When good jobs disappear then moral purity becomes the new credential. You eliminate competition by calling them "problematic" and cry-bully them until they get let go. Being Gen-X and very work focused she had no idea about the language being weaponized against her.
Meanwhile, the 4chan nihilism (locked out entirely) happens when you have no institutional power, can't compete in the credentialed economy, and attack its legitimacy. I get it. Well Greer helped me get it. We in the U.S. Democrat party had abandoned the working class since the 1970's, and coasted on brand power alone.
I see most of the low-information Boomer-Millennial occultism that came about in the past 15 years as originating in a similar or same socioeconomic survival tactic, to pose as Grand High Wiz Hufflepuff to make second income for themselves.
