My own experience of recognizing that the world didn't work as I was told was after the murder of JFK. Even as we all remember exactly where we were when that happened, a traumatized nation, but so much of it made no sense, and especially when we watched Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly after audibly saying, "I am just a patsy", getting shot to death right in front of all of the national television cameras, on live TV. We all watched it.
It was at that time that I became curious enough to read several books, written by credible investigative journalists, each of whom blew huge holes through the official narrative. To this day, the official JFK assassination files have not been fully released to the public. There is a reason for that, way too many are still not curious enough to want to know, so it is forgotten, drained down the memory hole. JFK was murdered by someone inside our own government, and by others infiltrated from other governments, specifically what some will at least recognize today as the operations of a "deep state".
So, some of us have been skeptical of all the lies since then, even as we tried to ignore a lot of it and just get along with making our lives, but once seen, never unseen. I could list hundreds of instances when I have questioned the official narratives, right up to and including the entire rona scamdemic. Yup, guess I am a conspiracy theorist, thank you C I A, for coining that term.
What amazes me today is that these very same globalist operators don't even try to hide their ambitions anymore and the fear mongering and war mongering and hypes become almost too ridiculous to be believed, and yet, still, today, a majority fall for it.
At this point in time, anyone that actually still believes anything that controlled media portends as truth, or still believes that politicians get into positions of power without lying, and without being heavily compromised, is living a life devoid of curiousity and courage.
We are all being "had" and it is global. It is so obvious to some of us, a total ridiculous but dangerous clown show. History repeating itself, but in more ludicrous and obvious ways due to our new found global AI total control surveillance system than ever before, something is going to give. At this point, even if the psychopaths still in charge ultimately lose, there are some real shit storms ahead for all of us.