Known this for years, I tell older people this, they don't understand. They say I'm too young to understand

Of course they do, the vested interests have ALWAYS done this. it is nothing new. The only difference this time is that it is easier to spread awareness about it.

We are seeing this more and more, most notably with the west's desire to control the internet and the flow of information. More subtlety, we see it in an increase in emotional conditioning of ever younger children.