So the "fiction" books, movies, and TV shows are documentaries, while the "fact" news is fake, made up, and staged. The inversion makes things easy and impossible at the same time. Once you know "the code" you can decode most media and figure out whether it is trying to tell you the truth or not. At the same time, you have to live in a social environment where most people can't tell reality from fantasy.

The more aware you become and the less you are seduced by the propaganda, the more isolated you are from the crowd, and the harder it is to find peers who "get" how you perceive the world. The mass awakening is weakening the grip of the false narrative, and they are converging, but it will take a collapse event; corrosion is too slow to finish the job.