Pink Floyd's The Wall and the Rise of the Alt-Right
How the worms ate into my brain, what I did and did not understand about The Wall, and what it tells us about the rise of the Alt-Right.
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Bibliography and Further Reading
The Libertarian-to-Fascist Pipeline: http://[ / from-hayek-to-hitler-an-analysis-of-the-li... ]
How Trump supporting figures like Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon literally don’t believe in Democracy: https://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Study about how whites backed Trump because of the perceived threat to their dominance: https://www.prri.org/research/white-w...
Interview with Michael Kimmel about how people get swept up in Neo-Nazi movements: https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Film Critics Hulk’s essay on the problems with Joker: / 33213577
And finally, Sean Skull’s essential deep dive into how The Bell Curve is based on sand: • The Bell Curve