I've never been "blue pilled". I was raised in a very traditional household, I sort of had a 1950s upbringing which I'm eternally grateful for.
So seeing the nuclear family and having a non feminist, stay at home mother, and a strong father, made it where I naturally despised feminism and these chip on their shoulder liberal female teachers as soon as I encountered them from early age.
But there was a moment I want to highlight as utterly retarded that made me realize that a large chunk of adults and people in general are profoundly stupid and it happened in 9th grade.
It was gym class and Supersize me had come out about 3 years prior, and the gym teacher, a man btw, has our gym class for that day be to watch that documentary.
I could not believe that anyone would be so dumb as to think that documentary was some sort of eye-opening revelation.
The second I knew the concept of it, the only thought was "duh".
Don't eat Mcdonalds every day, it's not good to do that. Where can I contact the Pulitzer prize people, because the brain trust behind that mind-blowing exposé needs to receive it retroactively.
I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone that a grown man would think that this documentary would be an exercise in anything but 1 hour of stating the obvious.
The fact that the documentary itself was incredibly pretentious didn't help either.
And then the dawning realization that it's not just a gym teacher showing this, and students watching it, but some studio actually paid money to get this made.
It really made me question the intelligence of mankind as a whole. Something everyone knows gets made into a documentary. (And yes I know the documentary was full of lies and fudging, but even without those lies, if you need a film to tell you not to eat Mcdonalds too frequently, then you're not long for this world).
Anyways, I just was baffled such a thing existed, and that teachers thought it would be eye-opening to students. I looked around thinking "is everyone morons"?
It would be years of further red-pilling until I finally got my answer...yes. The answer is yes.
Similar "revelation" but it had the same effect on me.
The first time reading past the headline of "95% of dieters put the weight back on" to find that it actually meant that researchers found and published a sentence like "When dieters returned to their original diet after finishing their diet 95% of them returned to their original weight"
The first time clown world hits it almost hurts.
You mean that if you go back to smoking after you quit smoking, you smell like smoke again?
No way! You're supposed to quit smoking for 3 weeks and then go back to doing what you were doing before without the negative consequences of your past behavior!