In a nutshell, mine would be:
- “My favorite color is red. Imma look up economic systems. Wait, what is socialism? Hey! The socialists like red! Oooooooh, their books are also red! I’m sure that these will be good reads-”
- A few hours later
- “Huh, I’m an ML now. I regret nothing.”
Though, I’m just asking what was the dumbest reason you get radicalized left-wards.
Long ago, I wrote my high school thesis on Stalin, and I don’t exactly remember the details, but I remember picking my thesis because I thought it would be easy, it was based on some propagandistic representation of the non-aggression pact between USSR and Germany during WWII. Then when I began researching and reading more detailed books as research for the thesis I realised I couldn’t even logically defend it at all. So I wrote a 4000 word essay with no solid conclusion. That made me realise that many things that were taught to me in my “Western education” were lies and misrepresentations. The entire experience made me feel pretty stupid.