I remember being a punk kid around 2006-2007 and having a bit of a political awakening seeing Ron Paul campaigning for president in America. It was my first real introduction to Libertarianism and small government as ideas. I also remember I started watching Alex Jones (thinking he was kind of crazy) and learning just what a total shit show the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were like they had deliberately gone out of their way to make the situation worse. So that is also around the time I learned about the "false flag" as a concept - really the only previous example I knew of was the 1933 Reichstag fire. Then you look at history and see how many false flags there have been like the USS Maine, Gulf of Tonkin and then I realised 9/11 suddenly made sense.