Mine was a flurry of articles on fluoride, and a personal look into the psychology of manipulative and emotionally abusive relationships. I realized the media uses the same dark triad tactics on us, and surreptitously lies all the time.
What inspired you to seek the truth? What made you no longer wish to bathe in the beautiful lie?
1976 - I was 13 and we held a faux Pres, election at my middle school. Everyone including me was jazzed about Carter, and while speaking to my dad about it, he educated me on a few things. The one thing that left an impression was the forced relaxing of Home Loan requirements for lower income earners, Sounds all well and good on the surface to help folks out, but if they're not making enough to own a home, that does not change. When loans start defaulting, who's going to suffer the most? Those now without a home, and those that take the financial brunt of it. Not the banks or the government, but us, in the form of higher interest rates, more fees, less interest earned on savings... He taught me to dig. Look and see where the money goes. Read the fine print. if it sounds too good to be true, it is not true.
As soon as I heard GWB's rally to war speech, 9/11, I had a really freaky suspicion it was a planned event. I managed recovery efforts directly across the Hudson and watched the smoke rising for over a week, but had zero time to see/hear any media. When I heard his speech after returning home, to say I was incensed, is a major understatement!!! Still pissed!!!!!!!!