[goodSteveramos]

The US propaganda regime is like a champagne tower. The most self-serving but still superficial plausible narrative is the top glass. Most people are caught here. If you reject this, you will be presented with a choice between several semi-mainstream counterculture narratives some of which are closer to the truth and some of which are more obviously false. If you reject all of those, you will get another set, all of which are more “fringe” and some of which are more obviously false but some of them will be even closer to the truth. If you pick an option that is even more of a lie than the mainstream you become a conspiracy theorist. If you pick the option closest to the truth at every level and discover how even that is a lie, moving on the more fringe level below, you will eventually find yourself with the whole truth, which is indeed quite fringe.