For me, it didn't happen like that. I'm unsatisfied with explanations I don't understand, and I enjoy questioning endlessly if I don't get it. Just so happens, American culture is upheld by a veritable mountain of unquestioned assumptions and conventional wisdom, none of which hold up to even a little bit of scrutiny. I had a long conspiracy period phase looking for explanations that did satisfy, and you'd be amazed to learn that the ones that made sense and that I could follow the logic of were anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, and later, more specifically, Marxism. For me it was a process that feels kind of inevitable in retrospect because I like running against the grain.
ya, there was a similar arc in my experience - it just really became apparent "how awful the US is" when Iraq WMDs narrative hype started up, and then seeing how none of the protesting and opposition stopped the invasion from happening
once I had that clear example of how fucked up the US foreign policy 'works', it verified so many of instances of similar shit throughout US history
For me, it didn't happen like that. I'm unsatisfied with explanations I don't understand, and I enjoy questioning endlessly if I don't get it. Just so happens, American culture is upheld by a veritable mountain of unquestioned assumptions and conventional wisdom, none of which hold up to even a little bit of scrutiny. I had a long conspiracy period phase looking for explanations that did satisfy, and you'd be amazed to learn that the ones that made sense and that I could follow the logic of were anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, and later, more specifically, Marxism. For me it was a process that feels kind of inevitable in retrospect because I like running against the grain.
But also, it was when Bush did 9/11.
ya, there was a similar arc in my experience - it just really became apparent "how awful the US is" when Iraq WMDs narrative hype started up, and then seeing how none of the protesting and opposition stopped the invasion from happening
once I had that clear example of how fucked up the US foreign policy 'works', it verified so many of instances of similar shit throughout US history