Our Post-Modern Hyperreality - Legitimization by Paralogy through Media Monopoly...

"Legitimation by paralogy" roughly means "manufacturing 'truth(iness)' through (forcing) consensus," or, in simpler language, creating social enforcement of lies that must be believed. Lyotard rightly recognized that this is a disaster (he wrongly believed everything is that). (Source)

Postmodernism stems from a "Crises of Authenticity" and the death of the meta-narrative.  

Authentic people have "character" and risk putting their real identity on the line in all their social interactions (but must constantly fight  to resist social pressure) unlike inauthentic people who instead project an artificial external image [as in schizoid personality disorder] and  most frequently submit to and conform with social expectations and norms.

A nostalgic desire to "return to the past" is a symptom of this crises of authenticity (especially for internet influencers like Travis Scott.)

Source of Marxist thought (ie - Michael Foucault)... People with deviant desires and who are forced to conform to societal and moral norms have a pent up desire to "expand potentialities of being" so as to change society in a manner which allows them to reveal their true "authentic" selves publically and not be subjected to these formerly oppressive social and moral norms (through guilt).  They rationalize their own pathologies through their idealized theories.

So the question becomes, "What is the authentic experience of the oppressed person?"  Is "blackness" today a more-real-than-real (hyper-real) social paralogy?  Why can't Kanye wear a MAGA hat (because to do so would be considered "inauthentically black")  If  you don't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black (or at least the paralogy of blackness as defined by the MSM monopoly).  All black conservatives considered by the standards of the media monopoly are "inauthentically black", because those standards have been legitimized by paralogy (media consensus).

The problem is that these media created hyper-real identities (of what it means to be minority x) seek to define an individual's  "authenticity" through identity categories reflecting a victimhood of historical oppression having nothing specific to do with the individual's character (thereby replacing the real with the hyper-real).  And what "oppression" are these minority groups being subjected to?  Hyper-real "micro-aggressions" (not even REAL oppression).

Wokeness is a media manufactured theoretical identity substituting for authenticity.  Authenticity is being who you are when you aren't trying to be anyone.  It cannot be faked.  You can't "fake it 'til you make it (ala an "Internet Influencer")