You're not paranoid—they really are doing that
Not too long ago, if you said the government was spying on everyone’s phones, you’d be labeled a paranoid crank.
Today, if you don’t know that’s happening, you’ve likely been living under a rock.
Years ago, the people who believed that the media was being manipulated behind the scenes were called “conspiracy theorists”—until the Church Committee confirmed the CIA had been embedding assets in major news outlets (and worse). For decades.
Or what about the “crazy” people who insisted that the government was experimenting on its own citizens? Now the declassified files on MK-Ultra are available for all to see and show clearly that yes, they actually did drug and psychologically torture people in secret government facilities.
The list goes on: the FBI infiltrating peaceful activist groups. Banks freezing accounts based on political views. Secret surveillance programs. Military-funded virus research. Corporate collusion to silence dissent.
All of it sounds unhinged and conspiratorial. All of it turned out to be true.
It reminds me of that part in Signs where Mel Gibson’s kids are convinced the aliens are hovering right above them, possibly reading their minds, so they start wearing tinfoil hats. He and his brother do their best to allay the kids’ clearly conspiratorial concerns because… obviously that’s crazy!
Ever the supportive uncle, his brother decides to actually listen to what the kids are saying and it’s not long before Mel walks in to this:
Turns out the kids weren’t so crazy after all.
It’s wild because people pretty readily accept that these so-called conspiracies actually happened. But when you try to get them to think about the fact that this is the same government today that did those things “back then” you often lose them.
Knowing that governments and powerful players have done this stuff in the past should make every one of us pause and ask—what are we being sold as truth today that’s going to be so obviously a lie once the classified documents are released in thirty years?
But for whatever reason, people really struggle to do that.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that the “official story” hardly ever ages well. The same institutions that demand our blind trust today have a long track record of deception, manipulation, and cover-up.
That’s why I don’t get too worked up anymore when people call me a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s become such a meaningless term—usually just a way to dismiss uncomfortable questions before anyone has to answer them.
But our kids deserve better than that.
They deserve to know real history—not the sanitized, PR-approved version in their school textbooks, but the messy, documented, sometimes horrifying truth about what governments and powerful people are capable of.
That’s why we wrote The Tuttle Twins Guide to True Conspiracies.
In it, we don't speculate or sensationalize. We just walk through well-documented, historically accurate examples of real, proven-true conspiracies.
The fact that most of them were denied for decades until the facts became too obvious to ignore just gives the reader more examples of what to watch out for in the top-down narrative manipulation tactics of the powerful elite.
Their methods have worked so well for so long that they haven’t even seen a reason to change them.
If we want our kids to be equipped for the future, they need to understand the past—especially the truth about what happens when people trade freedom for comfort or truth for convenience.
Most importantly, they need to know how to think, not just what to think.
And True Conspiracies is a great jumping-off point.
👉 Click here to get your copy and get started helping your kids become the kind of people who don’t just accept the narrative.
We want to help you raise a generation that not only knows how to challenge the “official story” but that understands why it deserves to be questioned to begin with.
Thanks for letting us help you in the important work you do.
— Connor
