Didn’t watch vid lol, but of course it’s a process and not likely to be a singular event, but for me, watching the film version of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine freshman year of college in class (4 years ago) was pretty fundamental. I vividly remember sitting in that class, feeling familiar nationalist defensiveness turn into a new rage and disgust for America. I was suspicious of unfettered capitalism and liked Bernie prior to that, but was still entirely a reactionary with mostly shitty social and political beliefs.

In my experience, seeing the course of world history through an actually critical lense for the first time made a much more holistic image click into place. I feel like a lot more things regarding society and economics that I was confused about began to make sense after that