Another view of America as a civilization in decay. Chris Hedges, writing in Common Dreams, describes how crisis cults (such as Q-Anon) are symptomatic of the way civilizations die. The irrationality is a necessary feature. As was observed in the 1930s, 'if Nazism depended on rational acceptance of its theories, there would be no Nazis.'
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