[teterphiel]

The problem is that journalism doesn't pay much anymore and confers less status and prospect than a coal miner. To make up the difference, they pick up arms against imgainary foes (secret, undetectable yet very dangerous orientalism) to give their lives a meaning it wouldn't otherwise have. Young woke liberals roughly go through the same as the members of UFO cults in the 70s: Unable to accept being discarded by society, they place themselves at the center of a galactic conspiracy.