"So it's a perfect example of a divided mind; after all, what people believe often has nothing to do with 'facts,' and no matter how rigorous & persuasive the presentation of the facts, people will go on believing anyway.
"Is that materialist?"
It is Marxist, Hegelian, and Gramscian. It is the master's side of Hegel's master-slave conflict-reification analysis applied to modern capitalism, and hegemony as internalized by the petty bourgeoisie.
Ken Lawrence