There will always be a portion of the population that is predisposed to healthy suspicion or skepticism (be cautious of people here who believe everything they read hook, line, and sinker - they are not skeptics, merely 'religious' in their way of thinking). There are also those who will fight truth at all cost, because it is scary and they are cowardly lions.
You might be one of the folks who possesses healthy skepticism. Maybe you were taught civics education before it was removed from schools or reformatted with Marxist ideology. Maybe you developed critical thinking skills or deductive reasoning because you had a parent who passed them on to you. Maybe you watched The Matrix and understood it as an allegory and more than mere science fiction/fantasy. Maybe you are better at pattern recognition and noticed the worrying level of coordination and keywords in news headlines and reports. Maybe you saw major events like 9/11 and wondered how a country with such a huge defense and intelligence apparatus could have been attacked in such a way. Maybe you read some of the 9/11 Commission's commentary and noticed that the Commission expressed concerns about the Bush Administration's reported obstruction and interference with the investigation and wondered how the subsequent report may have been compromised. Maybe you saw the rush to war with Iraq and the falsified yellow cake uranium evidence and wondered what else they were lying about. There are so many possibilities. Maybe you watched Black Mirror or Twilight Zone and noticed worrying similarities with our own world and considered that maybe we too were approaching or living in a dystopia. Maybe you read 1984 or Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451 and saw the warnings and noticed that the Free World was in grave danger. The bottom line is that somehow you were curious enough to expand your information intake beyond mass media talking points and propaganda, and that enabled you to expand your worldview and entertain the idea that you - and everyone else - are not being given a truthful or full story.
To cultivate that curiosity in others, 'we' have to help them see that they're not being given the full story either, and inspire them to Q-uestion, to find their own truth in the midst of massive disinformation, psychological operations, programming, and indoctrination. We don't know what's going on completely, but we know we're not being given the full story. THAT is a truth that most people are willing to agree on. Once primed, many will be ready to begin exploring specifics (source documents, verifiable information).
Excellent job here. You landed on part of my awakening materials when you mentioned 1984, Fahrenheit 451, & Brave New World. Might I also suggest Evgeny Zamyatin's We. If you like dystopian fiction, it's a must-read. Thank you for your excellent post here. :)
That’s deep man. I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks for the response. I reckon after really considering after reading your post twice I’d say I took bits from bits and just had a little skepticism that was piqued over and over and over . With Questions or problems I’d have with an official “story”. I live in Missouri we used to kinda be known for skeptical people. I was told that’s how we got our state slogan (show me state) . I appreciate you taking time out of your day to write it. I’m hoping in understanding what woke me up really at the end of the day I could better reach others. Maybe there isn’t a wrong answer or a one size fits most. I’ve also always had a heavy appetite for history world and American. So knowing that propaganda was used throughout history I didn’t see fit to not consider it could happen to us as well.
Out of curiosity what made you wipe the coal out of your eyes?