The serpent in the garden was the original Critical Theorist. He tempted man by casting suspicion on God’s revealed truth and reinterpreted reality through the lens of lack and grievance. He encouraged man to become his own arbiter of what is “good” apart from God (which can only ever result in counterfeit) – “then the woman saw that the tree was good for food...” If you read Gen 3:6, notice how it parallels the earlier verses wherein God sees and pronounces His own creation as good. The gnostic disposition and hermeneutic is at the heart of woke (and arguably sin in many ways) – its driven by a deep discontent with the givenness of reality and the impulse to deconstruct what is and replace with a man-centered, man-defined “ought to be” removed from the authority of God. As creatures, this is utter foolishness (and this is a massive understatement, bc I don't think we can grasp the implications and ramifications of this without really coming to terms with what it means for God to be Holy - the only attribute of God magnified in scripture to the third degree; e.g., Isaiah 6). Yet we do it time and time again, and we will do it time and time again unless we understand and accept that God is who He says He is and that we are His creatures. It’s no coincidence that so much of manmade ideology is a recycling of the primordial rebellion. There is nothing new under the sun.