It is almost heretical nowadays to claim that you just need to look at your surroundings and not be an expert to recognise what is real and what is surreal. In a matter as massive as what is happening now, it is easier to distinguish the lie from the truth because it lacks the subtlety, the finesse that would otherwise make one mislead. It is always good to observe the environment in which one physically lives. What are the biggest buildings, the squares that are kept the cleanest, the monuments? How much money and effort, how much architectural statement can be found? Once you realise that the most expensive and largest buildings or those that are historical monuments are often government buildings or alternately corporate or consumer buildings, it is not difficult to conclude from there that the rest are vicarious agents of the powerful.

This is particularly visible here in the city: Hospitals. By now they have so many floors or have formed themselves into villages. I have long wondered why this does not inspire anyone to ask questions.

The same can be observed in the so-called "country". What do you find? Large monocultures and fields as far as the eye can see?

If you want to see it.

I, too, have repeatedly turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, like so many people who try to live their lives under the consumer societies. Probably out of the realisation that I saw no solution.

At the moment I'm reading a lot about anarchy or hanging around on such anarchist portals. It's a good change from what else I've found.

Yes, I agree with you completely, you have to trust yourself first.