If you listened to the last episode of Citations Needed, you heard that the CIA funneled money into into cultural institutions like the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Paris Review to win the cultural war against communism. Much of this led to the emphasis on first-person writing and a focus on individual experience.
I don't know about you comrades, but I got Ds throughout secondary (high school) in English. I fucking hated 20th century lit. Are there any pretentious and overly individualistic writers that you blame on the CIA?
Right? It's hilarious for this supposed socialist to spend all his time parroting his capitalist government's line to criticize a socialist country, yet everyone bought it (including me a lil when I read it at school)
I almost bought it until the part about sociologists and teachers taking over the government. I grew up around sociologists and teachers, they have neither the time nor the energy to create a fascist state.