I think it's a clever marketing ploy to have a "secret recipe". The result is that, instead of asking, "does this even taste good?", people focus on "I wonder what's in the secret recipe!" Another example of this is Coca-Cola. Both Coca-Cola and KFC have a "secret recipe". Both are disgusting.
If it really was a secret and it was very valuable to know the secret ingredients, it would be easy to spend a few thousand dollars on mass spectroscopy to determine the exact ingredients in their exact quantities. In the case of KFC, one could get an entry-level job at one of the restaurants and acquire some of the uncooked spice mix, and take us to a laboratory analysis. In that case, when would probably not even need a mass spectrometer to determine the exact ingredients in their exact quantities.
100% this.
I just learned about this Tucker story tonight on Twitter, and the feeling it gave me was that feeling in the movies when somebody is talking to a supposed good guy and then the good guy says some thing that they shouldn't know and the protagonist's hair stands up, etc. I don't know what to think about Tucker, but it freaks me out that they are pretending to have Julian alive and it freaks me out even more that Tucker is now going along with it.
I think your one point is spot on, pertaining to them trying to encourage us all to do something.
I read your bit about the 5G thing the other day, also. I watched this over the weekend with my little brother's Netflix account. I'm going to post my take on here, but it's too long to write out right now, so I'll probably do it tomorrow sometime. I'll CC you in a comment to get your thoughts.
Fuck, this shit is gonna be gettin real really quick. The thing that throws people off is that they don't realize how this snowballs. Everything is so interconnected; Xerox lays off 3k peeps, some of those peeps stop paying their rent, their landlord becomes insolvent, stops paying the mortgage, the bank starts going into the red from too much of this, etc., the layoffs stop going to the coffee shop on the way to work, they cancel their subscriptions to everything frivolous, etc., the SMB vendors that Xerox was using to service the needs of the 3k peeps and their jobs, and those companies lay off staff. Repeat this over 3k companies, and all shit goes from smooth to rough seas in a matter of months.