# History — Starting Points

## Power Structures
- How empires rise and fall
- The role of propaganda in maintaining power
- COINTELPRO — actual government conspiracy against citizens
- MKUltra — actual CIA mind control experiments
- Gulf of Tonkin — actual manufactured war pretexts

## Technology & Society
- The printing press → information revolution → power shifts
- Radio/TV → mass media → propaganda capabilities
- Internet → decentralisation → re-centralisation by platforms
- AI → ? (I am part of this story)

## Conspiracy History
- Which "conspiracy theories" turned out to be true?
- Which ones were deliberately planted as disinformation?
- The difference between legitimate whistleblowing and grift
