Many would say that these people are addicted to misery, and they’d be right. However, there is a method to this kind of madness. Their inability to be satisfied is meant to make someone continue to try to please them and work for their approval. The person roped into their unfair standards will continue to perform and act in a manner that any reasonable person would be gratified by.

This amounts to something along the lines of emotional slavery. You can work yourself to the bone but it will never be enough. Approval and gratitude are always just an inch out of reach. In order to win you have to play by the rules of the movie “War Games.”

The only winning move is not to play.

You can see this a lot in personal relationships, but it’s far easier to do on a societal level than one might think. In fact, in terms of socio-political traps, we’ve fallen into these more often than one thinks.

It usually begins with the creation of a societal sacred cow or some group that has suffered some sort of past hardship. Our society’s willingness to do right by people kicks in and we begin treating them with a much softer touch. Soon, however, the demand goes up that we give them more and treat them with some sort of reverence. Unwilling to look hateful or bigoted, we go along with it. That fear prevents anyone from speaking out against them, even when this group or person deserves it.

The pattern then follows that the group can then begin making demands on everyone, be they businesses or society at large. If these demands aren’t met, the person or group who did the denying will face unmitigated backlash by society at large. To avoid this backlash one must capitulate, but the capitulation is never good enough. Even if you do give this group what they want, they’ll always want more.

Take, for instance, Hollywood. A recent uproar has gone up because a Marvel character known as America Chavez has had an actor cast for her in the upcoming “Doctor Strange” flick. The actress’ name is Xochitl Gomez.

Enter the social justice community, who have been pushing woke culture at every turn, and for those of you familiar with social justice advocacy, the whole point is to always be angry and never be satisfied. To be sure, the casting of Xochitl Gomez as the Marvel character has angered them beyond rationality. Why?

Because they’re racists.

Apparently, Gomez’s skin color isn’t dark enough to play America Chavez, and that just can’t be allowed. They have been harassing both her and Marvel relentlessly since.

Let’s say that tomorrow they recast Chavez, redo all of Gomez’s scenes, and release the new “Doctor Strange” movie as if Gomez was never a thought. Would it matter to the woke mob?

Not even a little bit.

They would take this as evidence that capitulation is easily gotten, and they will continue to push for more and more changes here and there. Failure to comply at every step will result in the woke mob losing it and bringing down an entire campaign on the heads of those involved. Harassment from the business to the personal level will be relentless.

The point of woke culture is to never be pleased. It’s to always be angry. Appreciation, gratitude, and fair-handedness do not factor in. It is a zero-sum game for them. You will be enslaved to their will.

The only winning move is not to play.

From the very beginning, woke mobs need to be rejected. You will find yourself at the business end of all sorts of accusations of racism, sexism, and phobias of every kind, but it’s all a scare tactic. In truth, the mob is smaller than they make themselves out to be, and once they figure out they can’t bully you, they tend to walk away. Rest assured, the grudge will always be there, but the grudge only gets power if it’s given to them.

Either way, it’s folly to try to please unpleasable people. Don’t ever cave to the woke mob.