“Did you hear that on TV? Did you lose interest...?...how much of it was because you were told everyone else lost interest?
... Virtually all mass media is for the purpose of conditioning....
In short, don’t watch TV...” [JustaTech, post 23]
The answers to your questions are no, no, and no.
I was required to live through it.
And I also listened to a great many individuals, across a wide cross-section of society. I’ve always had a talent for listening; we can learn more that way. Let me emphasize the word “can;” there aren’t any guarantees.
You’re hinting at conspiracy theories. Theories are belief, not knowledge. Knowledge beats belief every time.
I remember as a teenager staring up at the moon in 1969 and realizing there were men on it. Why can’t I do that today?
It’s blatantly implausible that we stopped the manned space exploration program because we simply “lost interest”.
Imagine if everything west of the Mississippi was still unexplored by Americans even today and you were told the westward expansion stopped because Americans “lost interest” in exploration. You wouldn’t believe it and you would know something else is keeping us out.