You never recover from the first time you realize the system has lied to you all your life. In one topic. In my and many other’s case, it was about sexual relationships. All this crap about “be Mr. Nice Guy, worship women and they will love you”. But, for others, COVID was the first time.

Once you know that the system can lie to you, the logical step is “what else are they lying to me about?”. Then you can’t accept something only because “TV says so”. You start to investigate and discover that the modern world is like an onion: layer after layer of lies

Once somebody knows for sure some body is in male fide about something, everything they say about everything is suspect, especially when they can’t personally attest to adeptness in all those different spheres as they might in the one they did.

And extensively, it elaborates to everything else in their social network; what others bodies are related to this body, positively or negatively disposed to the body, also say the same things as that body, et cetera et cetera.

And by the end of it, the act of pulling on one thread can end up unraveling and reknitting a whole sweater’s worth of weltanschauung.