I'm confused as to the meaning of "Our" here. To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. As someone who's not a twitter denizen, I honestly have no idea what he's trying to say.
> The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the experience of the last 10 years.
He means "wokeness"
As for the initial post:
> Apparently our mini Cultural Revolution may have peaked. It was painful, but I have to admit I learned some interesting things from it. For example, I learned more about independent-mindedness from seeing conventional-mindedness in action every day.
Ho ho ho, what a clever way to hurl an insult.
Whether he's right or wrong, this is pure shitposting. Which, I mean, it's on Twitter, so that's practically a given, but still.
[EDIT] Oh, as for this part of your post:
> To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni.
There's a set of people for whom Elon Musk acting erratically, doing stupid shit, and being a total asshole, is just 4D chess because he's such a business genius, and he doesn't really mean any of it, so it's fine (cf Vonnegut's Mother Night)... and also the "woke progressives" are a grave threat and worth spending a lot of time and energy opposing. Some of these are just twitter jerks, but the tech-influencer and owner/entrepreneur/VC crowd is full of folks who think that way (this is not speculation—they say the above in interviews and such all the time, and I personally know one of these sorts, as in, IRL)
That's the audience, I guess.