Surprisingly great article. Adam Curtis's seminary documentary series "The Century of the Self" is the detailed information source for the points touched upon in the article. It should be noted that the instance in whcih the general public have not, historically, behaved as mindless zombies, are relatively far and few between, and they usually occur in the early, non-degenerate stages of new empires and new systems. For instance, early Rome was bad-arse, middle and late Rome was sort of like the US is now. Early Greece was awesome, later they destroyed themselves via civil and internecine war. Same for basically any empire. Let's hope that the US can somehow change course and come together against this zombie outcome. Maybe the Republicans can stop stupidly blaming everything on excessive woke-ness and the Dems can stamp out excessive woke-ness, and we can all realize that woke-ness has nothing to do with anything real or important.