I got glasses. That definitely changed the way I saw things. Everything suddenly became more focused.
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The coup in Bolivia shook me of any demsoc liberalism I still had in me and made me understand that a workerβs movement can only be defended with force
Less profound, but it destroyed my remaining lingering faith in any mainstream media sources and confirmed The Guardian had completed it's transition from a bunch of socialists in the 70s to a neoliberal establishment mouthpiece today.
The Obama presidency and how all flavors of western media acted like it was taking the US down a radical leftist path.
The damn toilet paper crisis
That week recently when there were floods in every country except where there were fires in every country. That was wild.
Probably being on welfare for an extended period of time. It kinda beat the techno-libertarian out of me.
Most of my big internal changes were done through years of struggling in communities and therapy though
I stopped watching the 24/7 need channels. It cut out so much fear and paranoia that those channels thrive on.
The state murdering Fred Hampton.
Finding out in primary school that other kids weren't poor and had all the shit they wanted while we sometimes had issues getting food.
Going through spine surgery at a relatively very young age, and all the suffering beforehand. Revealed just how fake the world is and just how superficial a lot of things are.
GamerGate destroyed my confidence that the mainstream media tended to get things right and pick the right side. That doesn't mean it is always wrong, but it is not always right either.
What do you mean by this? I don't have much knowledge on the subject, but it seems like it had led to a bunch of social media village idiots (you know those YouTubers like the quartering) saying that "wokeness is killing videogames" and review bombing any game with a gay character in it.
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Unironically since I live in the imperial core and am from an ex-socialist country, but not old enough to have experienced it. It was the Trump v. Clinton elections where I saw what lib brain does to people.
Does it have to be an event in our lifetime (and not a historical event we learned about)?
If some historic event changed your life so much, we probably also like to read about it.