Depressing?
This may be what takes to save western civilization.
What is depressing is that we allowed ourselves to be so deceived and used for so long.
I agree, entirely. That's one of the major reasons this is so depressing. There are still way too many people who actually think that Marx was a brilliant hero - though the reality is that his personal resentment of society has led to the deaths of 100s of millions. We are living in a time during which academia has failed civilization because they let their egos lead them to blind hubris, as opposed to the vision of truth made perceivable via humility.