With my new eyesight, achieved in large part by ~4 years of immersion here, i can scarcely imagine I would have fallen for any of this when I was more of a normie, but I know I greatly underestimate the power of the illusion on people living the kinds of lives I used to, even as increasingly-deteriorated as that facade is becoming daily.
And even the degree to which you do wake up to various aspects of the deception can be reversed by just being exposed to enough repetition of the lies again from an "authoritative" source. Gotta wake up to it and become grounded in the new truth. I now know, and am continually cognizant of the fact that EVERYONE I am hearing through screens is an actor playing a role.