I'm like three chapters into The Shock Doctrine and I'm already overwhelmed. The CIA's torture of random Canadians, later repeated on people around the world and esp from the Middle East, is heartbreaking and infuriating. Somehow the economics stuff (so far) I more or less knew, if not in such stark terms, but I had no idea about the MKUltra torture. If I'd heard of MKUltra before, it was straight up conspiracy theories or jokes about LSD, not torture. I actually had to google it, thinking it's some half-hidden half-conspiracy theory stuff, but it's straight up on wikipedia. Idk, it's fucking with my mind. Every time I think I know how evil the CIA is...
Yea that book itself is shocking and I think is what radicalized me the most. The process of first learning about how evil America is and then having to integrate it in yr brain is like difficult, but then everything happening around you makes 1000x more sense and becomes way easier to digest/understand lol
I'm like three chapters into The Shock Doctrine and I'm already overwhelmed. The CIA's torture of random Canadians, later repeated on people around the world and esp from the Middle East, is heartbreaking and infuriating. Somehow the economics stuff (so far) I more or less knew, if not in such stark terms, but I had no idea about the MKUltra torture. If I'd heard of MKUltra before, it was straight up conspiracy theories or jokes about LSD, not torture. I actually had to google it, thinking it's some half-hidden half-conspiracy theory stuff, but it's straight up on wikipedia. Idk, it's fucking with my mind. Every time I think I know how evil the CIA is...
Yea that book itself is shocking and I think is what radicalized me the most. The process of first learning about how evil America is and then having to integrate it in yr brain is like difficult, but then everything happening around you makes 1000x more sense and becomes way easier to digest/understand lol