Seems like a completely different universe when I think back on it. In a way, the ignorance I had at that time is kind of comforting, bliss as they say. At that point in my life I had no idea about how the world really works, and it would be years afterward before I started to learn. I remember it clearly. I was 20 years old, I had not been in my first apartment for even a year. My now wife I've been with for 21 years had just found out she was pregnant with our first son who is coincidentally now 20 years old. I woke up on the mattress on our bedroom floor to see me wife standing there looking at the 19 inch crt tv. I turn my head and see on the news one of the twin towers smoking. "What the fuck?" I said. Not long after that, the second tower was struck. "We are under attack I remember thinking". The wife and I spend the day watching the "news" in horror. I actually said, "good thing we have a Bush as a president, these people have to pay". LOL It wasn't until the US invaded Iraq for the second time did I start to think something was fucked. What the fuck did Iraq have to do with 9/11? Then one of my good friends died fighting in Iraq, which really got to me. The seeds of anger and complete distrust for my government were firmly planted at that point. A few years after 9/11, I watched Fahrenheit 9/11, by the gross fat stupid piece of shit wat lady Michael Moore. I didn't know about him being a faggy leftist gross fat piece of shit wat lady back then, but it got my wheels turning. I knew there was something wrong with the world as I knew it, I didn't know what yet, but it was a splinter low key fucking with me. I think it was 2005 or 2006 when I was just watching youtube, before it was jootube if that is even possible. I was just watching UFO and ghosts on camera videos or some shit. In the sidebar in the suggested videos was a screencap of Bart Simpson holding money in front of a travel brochure. The brochure was a picture of New York, with a big $9 on the cover next to the twin towers. The title was 9/11 symbolism in tv and movies. I clicked on that video and fell down the fucking rabbit hole. After that video was early Alex Jones shit, then "Ring of Power: Empire of the City" etc. and the rest is history. What I'm getting at is 9/11 was the catalyst of waking so many of us up. It was an event on such a scale that many of us have never seen before in our lifetimes. Something that big is impossible to keep clean, to coverup. The cabal fucked up big time when they pulled that shit. It was an act of desperation, and that is always messy. One big win I take away is my now 20 year old son. He is at a level of awareness and knowledge that took his old man to be almost 40 to know what he knows, to see what he sees. If my 20 year old son met my 20 year old self he would call him a blind, normie sheep faggot, and he would be right. That is what gives me hope. It takes a fraction of time these days for someone to be awakened than it was back then, and it's happening to younger and younger people. So, the cabal may have gotten what they wanted in the short term, but they played with fire, and they will get fucking burned.