I didn’t know much of anything other than “politicians and our political system and institutions are corrupt” until about 2003, though I had a constantly bothersome intuition it was somehow deeper than simple corruption and bad decision making, I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then I watched Loose Change and saw the AJ Bohemian Grove expose like w/in the same couple weeks which started a super intense crash course in ALL things “Illuminati” that has continued to this day. I feel like I woke up extremely rapidly, like all this info was a river rushing into my mind and flooding all the ignorant and naive gaps and crevices, making that intuition make much more sense. I remember trying to show my loved ones some of this information and being legitimately shocked at how they reacted to me. Like, here it is, right in front of your eyeballs and not only do you not perceive it, but you perceive ME as some kind of ne’er do well rabble rouser trying to spread dangerous lies! I get the how/why of it now (trauma based cog dis combined with Stockholm syndrome) but it hurt me deeply and I’ll probably never not be a bit salty about it.