For those confused, whenever I’ve seen someone describe themselves as “awake” they tend to also use phrases like “truth seeker” “do my own research” and call themselves critical thinkers, I have a few people in my wider family who call themselves these words, always say they only want to speak to people who share their views, but whenever you flyer and delve deeper and ask genuine questions, they call you a sheep.
Some of the things I’ve seen my “awake” in laws claim, Covid was made up to control us all, Covid vaccines were deliberately made to harm us, certain celebs are members of the illuminati, that Muslims are on a mission to breed western culture out, the moon landing was staged, their main thing at the moment for the is immigration and HMOs etc. they also seem to love ai generated videos that back up their beliefs and share all kinds of shit in social media as proof of what they say and when you point out it’s ai and fake, they will tell you to go “do your own research” but won’t ever give you a jumping board to start from.
I don’t call myself awake or asleep in the context of “conspiracy theories” because I think there’s some systems in the world that actually are designed to keep the social structure and hierarchies as it is, because you can’t have powerful people without people to have power over, I do think media outlets of all sorts are influencing society and public option changes so fast, in the blink of an eye, depending on who is shouting the loudest and getting the most attention.
What does awake mean to you op?