Thread by @MatrixMysteries

"They sold virtue as marketing and truth as branding—until the numbers proved neither could sell." - Christopher Hitchens

A Thread Exposing the Collapse of Institutional Credibility🧵

1. Inclusion Was the Slogan. Sales Were the Reality.

Advertising’s Quiet Return to Reality

🔹 Inclusion was never a moral revolution—it was a marketing campaign. Corporations discovered that virtue could trend, and they rode it until the metrics collapsed. Consumers weren’t persuaded; they were exhausted. And when sales tanked, the mask slipped.

🔹 In the end, profit—not politics—won. What was framed as “progress” was just a strategy. When the numbers came in, they didn’t expose the audience. They exposed the lie.

2. The Death of the Media Propaganda Machine

🔹 The press once commanded trust as if it were a permanent asset. Today, every headline is met with instant skepticism, fact-check threads, and independent journalists dismantling their narratives in real-time. The monopoly on truth didn’t erode—it evaporated.

🔹 The louder the media screams “misinformation,” the clearer the signal becomes: they no longer decide what’s credible.

3. The Business Of Big Pharma — “A Patient Cured Is a Customer Lost”

🔹 “Trust the experts” was less about medicine than it was about market share. Behind every press conference sat lobbyists, settlements, and quarterly goals disguised as public health. The result? Skepticism became survival instinct.

🔹 Now, people don’t need theories—they have evidence. Every scandal, every payout, every hidden memo burned away the illusion. What was once unquestionable authority is now a brand with permanent damage.

4. Feminism: The Lie They Sold as Equality

🔹 Feminism was never just about equality. It was a cultural reprogramming. What began as a movement for empowerment was twisted into a campaign against the family. Motherhood was reframed as a burden, masculinity as toxic, and tradition as oppressive. Liberation wasn’t the outcome — fragmentation was.

🔹 The only real winners were corporations. By doubling the workforce, they halved the value of labor, doubled the taxable population, and gained a generation too busy, divided, and exhausted to resist. Feminism didn’t break the system — it fed it.

5. Hollywood: The Empire That Stopped Selling Dreams

🔹 For years, studios traded on nostalgia while rewriting the culture in their own image. Beloved characters were dismantled, tradition was mocked, and lectures replaced storytelling. But audiences didn’t buy the message — they walked away.

🔹 Now, the box office is in freefall. Hollywood didn’t just lose its magic — it lost its credibility. People don’t want propaganda wrapped in popcorn; they want stories that matter. And until the industry remembers that, it will keep burning money trying to sell movies nobody asked for.

6. The Fragmentation of Identity

🔹 Identity politics replaced unity with division — turning shared humanity into niche categories. You were taught to see yourself through race, gender, and labels before seeing yourself as a person. Victimhood became currency. And the more fragmented you became, the more powerful the system grew.

🔹 This wasn’t empowerment. It was distraction. While people fought over pronouns and flags, real power structures stayed untouched. Confusion became control. The more lost you are, the easier you are to lead — and the harder you are to rebuild.

7. The Climate Change Hoax

🔹 Climate change isn’t a crisis —it’s a business model. The narrative has been weaponized to push carbon credits, green taxes, and endless “solutions” that enrich the few and burden the many.

🔹 Behind every doomsday headline is an economic or political motive. The goal was never to save the planet. It was to sell you fear, restrict your choices, and enforce compliance under the illusion of moral responsibility.

8. School: The Promise That Never Paid Off

🔹 For decades, they told us the formula was simple: study hard, go to college, and success would follow. But behind the cap and gown was a business model, not a guarantee. Degrees became products, and students became customers drowning in debt.

🔹 The truth? You weren’t taught to thrive — you were taught to comply. Most of what you learned had no real-world value, but it kept the loans flowing and the system fed. Now, millions are waking up to the same lesson: school was never about education. It was about control.