1/5: 2.5 stars, being generous-1 star for still being under copyright = 1.5 stars I bothered to look up one of the claims that was fundamental to the argument being made here (while it is fiction, it's clearly a polemic) -- turns out that the "they pivoted to using fear to control the western world after the berlin wall fell, and we can know this because words like 'crisis' are thrown around more radically shooting up then"...or perhaps, put differently : "that there was an abrupt fear-related word climate change starting around 1989" Well there wasn't. "crisis" indeed has been growing in use...