You don't think we're being conditioned to be passive against each other and, by proxy, our government?

You don't think we're being conditioned to value the abstinence of violence for whatever reason regardless of claims of justification?

You don't think we're being conditioned to ignore the reasons people blow up and instead ask how they had the means to be able to do so?

You don't think we're being conditioned to complain about the way things are without thinking about the way things could, or even should, be?

The book should be taken at face value indeed.