The righteousness of the morally bankrupt

From The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon, Milan Kundera, translated from the French by David Bellos from The New York Review, December 1991.  

In our times it has been easy to betray friends in the name of what are called convictions. And to do so with moral righteousness. A degree of wisdom is indeed required in order to understand that the positions we adopt are but imperfect and probably temporary hypotheses, which can be made to seem like truths and certainties only by the blinkered.

Here we are thirty years later and the Gramscian Marxism of Wokeness, described in the essay, has seeped into the commanding heights of Academia, the Mainstream Media, NGOs and the administrative state.  With the same results of individuals admiring themselves for their brave poses based on imperfect and temporary hypotheses ungrounded in reality.