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Liber de contemptu mundi, sive, De miseria humanae conditionis

26Score

Very Little Woke

Mostly focused on storytelling.

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Is Liber de contemptu mundi, sive, De miseria humanae conditionis Woke? Quick Answer

Liber de contemptu mundi, sive, De miseria humanae conditionis scores 26/100 on the IsItWoke scale and reads as Very Little Woke.

Messaging can show up, but it is not the main event in this book.

The text is a medieval Latin treatise focused on the misery of the human condition and contempt for worldly matters, reflecting strong anti-materialistic and anti-worldly themes. Its framing is deeply rooted in religious and traditional Christian values, but it critiques worldly and secular life, which can be seen as anti-traditional in a modern secular context.

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Signal profile

What is driving this verdict

Messaging

Political messaging: Present

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Woke profile

How the score is shaped

Eight stored dimensions, each scored from 0 to 20.

Message

Characters

Story

Legacy

Politics

Lead

Tradition

Norms

Column height is the stored score out of 20

Message-first dialogue
2/20
Tokenistic characters
1/20
Ideology over story
3/20
Legacy rewriting
0/20
Modern politics injection
0/20
Protected protagonist pattern
1/20
Anti-traditional framing
15/20
Cultural normalization framing
12/20

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Why it received this score

Based on: Published title analysisConfidence: MediumLast updated: 2026-10-06

Key reasons

The text is a medieval Latin treatise focused on the misery of the human condition and contempt for worldly matters, reflecting strong anti-materialistic and anti-worldly themes.
Its framing is deeply rooted in religious and traditional Christian values, but it critiques worldly and secular life, which can be seen as anti-traditional in a modern secular context.
Dialogue and prose are not modern or activist-coded; instead, they serve a moral and philosophical purpose consistent with its time, so message-first dialogue is minimal by contemporary standards.

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There is no evidence of modern political discourse or contemporary culture-war signaling; the work is firmly historical and theological.
The work does not rewrite legacy properties; it is itself a legacy text, preserving its original ideological framing without modern reinterpretation.

Score signals

Signal	What was measured	Strength	Impact
Anti-traditional framing	How strongly a title normalizes, glamorizes, or positively frames anti-traditional, anti-religious, anti-family, or civilizationally subversive themes in a way that should count as woke or corrosive for this product's audience.	15/20	+10
Cultural normalization framing	How much the title repeatedly frames a specific social model, identity/sexuality framing, lifestyle, family structure, or set of values as culturally meaningful, normalizing, morally instructive, or aspirational. Increase score when the work itself is explicitly positioned around that cultural proposition - through narrative, marketing, advocacy, or identity-specific educational/sexual content. Mere presence of any demographic or an incidental relationship is not enough.	12/20	+7
Ideology over story	How much the overall storytelling prioritizes ideological framing, message delivery, social commentary, or activism-coded narrative choices over pacing, conflict, immersion, and entertainment.	3/20	+2
Message-first dialogue	How much the dialogue, monologues, or character interactions feel driven by overt messaging, moral lecturing, ideological framing, or making a point instead of serving the story naturally.	2/20	+1
Tokenistic characters	How much characters feel inserted or shaped primarily for symbolic representation, political signaling, or demographic checkbox value rather than narrative depth, organic fit, or strong characterization.	1/20	+1

AI cultural analysis

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AI read

Liber de contemptu mundi is a classical medieval text that serves as a moral and philosophical meditation on the human condition, emphasizing the vanity and misery of worldly life. Its narrative is deeply embedded in Christian theology, promoting a worldview that rejects earthly pleasures and materialism in favor of spiritual contemplation.

While this framing is traditional in the medieval religious sense, it can be interpreted as anti-worldly or anti-materialistic, which contrasts with modern secular values. The text does not engage in modern ideological messaging or political commentary, nor does it feature dialogue or characters shaped by contemporary activist agendas.