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You're winning some battles but that doesn't mean you're winning the war.
The efforts you've described are admirable and I'm sure has saved lives and the truth, but if the control runs deep, so must the resistance. I think the more we look into the secrets and recognize manipulation, the more enraged we will feel at how normal it was all made to seem.
It blew my mind when I realized how much of the internet and how much of national media in many countries is propaganda and flawed reporting. Leaving out details is lying imo and it's often normalized because it's "PR" or "protection".
It all often takes me back to my abusive childhood home where I was kept inside/sheltered not to be protected from harm, but to keep me from realizing what was going on. To keep me from reaching people and information that would tell me it isn't normal. But without the internet, its privacy and the people (not AI) I met there, I might still believe in that normal. It was thinking that got me out, and intense self-reflection. When the AI (even the algorithms sometimes) thinks for you, it doesn't allow you to go through the process of reasoning and critical thinking.
I first thought it must feel like magic for the kids, then realized no, it's as normal as our childhood surroundings were to us. And that is terrifying.
There's a reason the word "renaissance" means rebirth. Wounding isn't the same as killing (a status quo or a powerful person). They obviously know that, I think most of us don't though. We didn't even recognize the evil grow because they pit us against each other. I cri sorry for rant lemmy.