I know it sounds ridiculous, but in the past few weeks I've had to cull certain people from my life. Some friends who I've had for many many years.
I never talk about PG around people who aren't already aware of it, I'm not some lunatic raving psychotic conspiracist either. This is the first proper "conspiracy theory" (i fucking hate that term) I've been so involved with. 2 weeks ago I gently tried to red-pill my closest group of friends, I tried to suggest and give reasons why they shouldn't really trust mainstream media, that everything in the world is ultimately bought and paid for and that there are certain people who run the world, because they have the money and means. Their response to this was "no that's bullshit, big corporations run the world yes, but not people." I wish I was joking.
I then segwayed into PG and presented them with intro evidence and a shit tonne of info, basically just asking "hey, don't you guys find this pretty fucking weird? Look at this instagram account, look at the art on this politician's walls" etc. then tied it all in. Anyone with a brain or any interest in the world, i would've thought, would be compelled by what I'd said or at least interested, in the same way I was when I found PG.
My friends completely wrote me off and abused me, gaslighted me and called me a fucking tin-foil idiot while ignoring every point I painstakingly thought out. They argued every single point with "no i don't think that's right, look here, look what the Washington Post said, it's debunked" while ignoring blatant links and evidence I showed them. These guys are all educated, smart people with good jobs and girlfriends etc.
I've had to cull this group of friends because our world views are irreconcilable and they've blatantly demonstrated they have zero respect for me or desire to look past themselves. It shows I fundamentally have nothing in common with these people.
Does anyone else know what I mean? Are you guys experiencing the same stuff? Have you managed to red-pill people? If so, how? I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone and slowly going insane, like I'm on the fucking Truman Show or something.
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jastonas ago
Welcome to the dark side. I've had more or less the same experience with you. It started a couple of years ago with feminism, last year with Trump and politics, then when I thought I was fully red-pilled, I stumbled into pizzagate.
With feminism and politics, I was able to make some reasonable discussions, but overall people would alienate me, or I would alienate them.
With pizzagate, and /v/conspiracy and /r/conspiracy, the shit really hit the fan for me. Now I feel that every day that passes, I keep closing to my self in because I can't take any more the denial of truth from people who I am friends and I (used to??) respect.
jastonas ago
On the upside, I've seen some people getting redpilled (partial) because of me, and once in a while, someone (acquaintance, not random person obviously) will come up to me at a bar or somewhere and tell me almost secretly: Hey J, I see your likes etc on your social media... interesting stuff, i agree with a lot of those things. I even managed to show dcpizzagate.wordpress.com to a couple of people, who at least didn't dismiss it. They didn't buy into it that much as I have, but they were like "hmm ok... this sounds creepy... but... ok what are we having for dinner tonight??"