When I was 18/19 I watched the documentary called #Zeitgeist.. it all started there for me, started looking everything with different eyes.
Have you watched it?
Very likely on #nostr the % of who saw it will be bigger than anywhere else, but still not sure how famous is it or if considered like full of bs. #asknostr
yeah I also saw it it the same years, it was also for me a "first experience with controversial stuffs"! I was shocked and amazed at the time, I didnt know bitcoin and a lot of things at the time. Now dont remembe exactly what the doc was about, remember just a "generic cospiracy theory about new global scientocratic order" sort of, but at the time clicked something in me!
my first contact with this theory was when i was like 9 years old, it was part of my dad's collection of little leaflets and papers about the apocalypse... CFR, NWO, all of it, i learned before i was 10
I loved it because undermined Money, Religions, Politics and History as we learn in books.. and many other stuff, it really blew my mind.
bitcoin wasn't yet invented/discovered, I do believe I watched it first time in 2007 but very likely was some made some yrs before.
Thinking about downloading and republishing on nostr.build so to be visible directly on #nostr.. 👀
Same with me, but if I'm fair .. I think it didn't start with this kind of truths. It started when I was younger, on a forum with a lot of techies, where some very skilled developers were discussing complicated topics. I realized that one can discuss all kinds of things, without forcing anything on another, just exchange of ideas. Where you're stimulated to think, and allowed to disagree and discuss. I tried to learn. I continued to learn, and Zeitgeist was on that path 😋 (also VPRO Backlight documentaries on the (collapse of the) financial system)
Will check those docs you mentioned, thanks 😁🤙
"Quants the alchemists of wallstreet" "flash crash 2011” " the chinese economic bubble 2011" "the tax free tour"
Look for around 10 years ago
And also, some speakers like Richard Dawkins tend to attract a lot of nonsensicle discussions in the Q&A after his talks, especially 10 years ago. The blinding incorrect, unsound arguments and relentless pushing for it, opened my eyes in one particular way.
If you look/listen carefully, you'll notice that Dawkins is quite skilled at accurately describing/explaining what he means, to emphasize key points, or to ridicule in order to emphasize the part that's silly, as opposed to ridiculing a person. The responses that are then misplaced, are also eye-opening.
Same here, along with Krishnamurti.
The part on money mechanics blew me away!
Yeah, from then I started to see how much money incentives shaped the world
