How Manufactured Crisis, Programmed Rage, and Misguided Resistance Prolonged Human Suffering By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)With Contributing Author Janet Kira Lessin INTRODUCTION Wars do not erupt spontaneously. They are prepared for—psychologically, politically, and mythologically—long before the first bombs fall. The Vietnam War stands as one of the clearest modern examples of how domination …
