Around age 5~7 I first noticed how pointless life was when all I saw were people going to work, coming home to pay off a house on mortgage and growing old only to do things or feeling regret over not doing things when they were younger. I already came to the "people are sheep" conclusion internally by then

Then in high school I noticed how the education system was really a sham to get us students used to imprisonment, and that schools themselves were glorified prisons. Teachers are the wardens. Noticed the difference in how much I could learn at my own pace at home over how controlled it was in school

But after high school until the last few years recently I kinda kept my head down, and kept these things in the back of my mind. Wanted to enjoy life and be social - because I was still young. Then again in the last few recent years I really got into investing. And from there confirming for myself all of the blatant corruption in the financial sector, it's links to the political, and then remembering all the things from when I was a kid that I had put aside in my mind. Which has more or less led me to be more active and involved with what's going on now