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I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist if you limit conspiracy theory to "9/11 was an inside job", "Kennedy assassination was actually X".For me the big wake up was discovering that a decent number of the main propositions about the holocaust were not nearly as well supported as nearly every teacher and piece of media suggests.I am not a full on denier but you start to wake up when even questioning a small piece of the story causes torrents of censure upon you. It is now widely admitted that 1.5 died in Auschwitz not 4 million. The revisionists debate the 1.5 figure of course but the figure is the MAINSTREAM one.You tell people "you're wrong about the number that died in Auschwitz and they say "Are you one of them! Are you one of them! Why do you care about this anyway!"How can you then believe you are not living in a form of police state. A place where your thoughts are regulated by artificially constructed social pressures (TV/movies, public education, etc.) and the truth doesn't matter.You realize that the West is about freedom within a prescribed window. There aren't many countries outside the west that are a good alternative but believing you are truly living free becomes more and more of myth the deeper you dig into history or even modern culture. The idea that "Jews run the media" which is a crude way of putting it, is true and there is no doubt that the values of that group get expressed through that control. That control is subject to some constraints of the market and of politics but as those restraints drop I have seen a more naked pursuit of what feels like hostile values. It is hard to see it another way if you are paying attention.