| 9/11 was just a bloody blip compared to the decades of spiraling indoctrination with varying focal points. the same way that now "progressive leftists" are completely working themselves into an anticapitalist frenzy, and before them the (performative) woke and the reactive antiwoke mania spread like wildfire, before that it was the homophobia and islamophobia (triggered by 9/11), and before that the red scare, and the reefer madness, and whatnot. https://www.npr.org/2004/12/15/4229442/from-direct-mail-to-a... https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con (2012 by Rick Perlstein) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_the_Un... (Richard Hofstadter, 1964) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-682x.... (Three Kinds of Anti-Intellectualism: Rethinking Hofstadter, 1991 by Daniel Rigney) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2018.1... (Anti-intellectualism is a virus, 2018 by Michael A. Peters) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI (Conspiracy, 2025 by ContraPoints) |