Seriously guys, I'm really getting sick of this. Yes, it's important to learn how to research, but remember when they invented the calculator and the teacher kept telling you how important it was to learn to do it on paper, and yet...there's a fucking calculator?
This place is our calculator. Nobody is going to take anyone else's words at face value, true. And we shouldn't. But the truth is not everyone knows what everyone else knows and we're not going to learn what everyone knows if we keep sticking our noses in the air and saying "look it up yourself."
You looked it up apparently, do us all a favor and show us where you looked. It will help get us all where we need to be a hell of a lot faster.
I agree with all of your post except this:
It was a statement of exactly what we are doing, it wasn't an analogy.
We live in a world were what we see, what we think, what we feel, our very beliefs are created for us. We each get our beliefs from different sources, but all of those sources have the same controller. We fight each other because we believe we are at odds, but those odds are purposefully created to be at odds, sent to different sub-populations. Everyone is Controlled Opposition.
All of our schools have been run by the same source for over a century (really much longer, but its easy to start there). All of our books have been published by the same source. All of the people "exposing the truth" that are popular (Alex Jones, etc.) are also, controlled by the same source. All of our formal religions all have the same source, even if they didn't necessarily start that way. All science is controlled, funded, taught and published by the same source. All controlled, all at odds, all run by the same puppeteers.
One of our primary beliefs (programs) is that "there's no such thing as a conspiracy." 99% of the population (pre-Q) believes it. The 1% that don't are "conspiracy theorists," bottom feeders, the worst sort of person that exists. When someone tries to expose the truth, that program comes out (Agent Smith) and forces the exposure into submission with shame and loathing for both the evidence and the presenter. "Conspiracy Theorist" is a self correcting mechanism of The Matrix, put into place to keep the population from seeing the walls that contain them,
There are many other such programs and mechanism ("heretic", "anti-Semitic", e.g.) that prevent people from seeing the Glitches in The Matrix, all designed to control what we see and believe, control what we tell each other, keeping it all running smoothly.
There are multiple levels of The Matrix, and many of those that believe they are "awake" have only moved past the first veil, still not ready to see the next one.
All sides get their beliefs from the same source. The entire planet is nothing but a group of programmed puppets, dancing to a single tune.
Q has shifted the 1% to the.... I have no idea, 50% by now? But like I said, most of those are still completely oblivious to the larger scope of The Matrix. They are only seeing that there is fuckery at the top, the extent in both the mindspace and temporal dimension (going back eons), is still completely obscured.