A Woke CIA Will Make America Safer

Bloomberg · by Tyler Cowen · May 5, 2021
Technology & Ideas

A Woke CIA Will Make America Safer

The spy agency needs younger employees, and maybe it can make wokeness seem anodyne.

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May 5, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT

Woke applicants welcome.

Photographer: Pool/Hulton Archive

In one of the greatest marketing coups in the U.S. government history, the CIA has succeeded at one of the most difficult tasks facing any organization, public or private: It has produced a viral video.

Some wags on Twitter are referring to the video as "Woke James Bond." The narrative presents a Latina woman — and employee of the Central Intelligence Agency — with two children, describing herself as a "cisgender Millennial," a "woman of color," "intersectional," and also suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. Not exactly the portrait of a spy from a Robert Ludlum novel.

Bloomberg · by Tyler Cowen · May 5, 2021