like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don’t know. What can you even say to people who don’t understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about it?
Am I overreacting? Is this too blackpilled? It genuinely seems like this is a very dark potent, especially at this nexus of heightened contradictions
I think this is a bad take, and it sounds like maybe it is based on online interaction. Have you been talking to people while canvassing or doing some kind of outreach to poor working class neighborhoods? Its usually not hostile at all. Often times it has more to do with your ability to listen to them and phrasing things with more popular language. We also live in a time with the highest number of college graduates ever- but that has almost no baring on whether a person is indoctrinated or not. anti-intellectualism is for sure an issue, but I would argue that is more a product of US advanced education being highly associated with elite status and smugness - the same smugness that the ruling class uses to tell people not to believe their lying eyes is also a signal to people that they are powerless to make decisions or agency because they aren’t qualified to know the ”Truth”