rostasi

One of the telling usages of “woke” in the early part of last century was that, depending on your belief in God, it had the same general meaning, but the philosophy of how you used the word differed. Keeping it music related, if you were a God-fearing gospel singer, “woke” referred to a higher belief that God was the one that made you woke (“He [the Lord] woke me up this morning…”), but if you were a blues singer (“I woke up this morning, blues all around my bed…”) then “woke” referred to a condition that only you could control - that life was pretty bleak and that it was up to you to be woke to your surroundings. Basically, gospel folk knew they weren’t alone - blues musicians almost certainly knew that they were.

I’m not gonna get into it again, but please resize your pictures.
It makes it real difficult to followup your comments.

Chula Vista

Was going to but then the text became unreadable.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

rostasi

"Origins and Timeline of the Word "Woke."