07-17-2020, 11:06 PM
I've been paying passing attention to the QAnon movement for may be a little over a year. Back in the day, I used to have a good laugh listening to Art Bell and later George Noory on the 3rd shift-friendly early am hour airwaves. The'd talk about everything from aliens to demonic possession and even some gubmint-related conspiracy material every night on my drive home. It was entertaining, but I always felt a bit sorry for the guests or callers, as they were absolutely invested in the totally laughable material that the hosts discussed nightly. Bringing anything on the program as anything other than a joke would likely get you laughed out of any dinner conversation.
So now we have QAnon. This time, it's a secret squirrel operative spilling secrets in cryptic tweets with far-right narratives built in. Pizzagate is probably the best-known example of their buffoonery. Another, which came into existence during early Covid panic involves human-animal hybrid children being marketed by liberal Satanic cults in underground facilities. Allegedly, Trump and the right were using Covid as a cover to free these unfortunate souls from their captors/creators.
So, I guess I'm just trying to see how board members feel about this and why it came to be a thing that adults literally swear oaths to. I don't see a lot of people in P&R that I think are overly susceptible to this stuff, but Jungle Noise is a different story, likely chocked with these believers. Why are we so easily manipulated by anything that even remotely reassures our political leanings? Why, without any substantial evidence of these theories bearing out does the movement grow rather than contract and disappear? Are people so unsatisfied with actual reality that they want someone to create a new one?
So now we have QAnon. This time, it's a secret squirrel operative spilling secrets in cryptic tweets with far-right narratives built in. Pizzagate is probably the best-known example of their buffoonery. Another, which came into existence during early Covid panic involves human-animal hybrid children being marketed by liberal Satanic cults in underground facilities. Allegedly, Trump and the right were using Covid as a cover to free these unfortunate souls from their captors/creators.
So, I guess I'm just trying to see how board members feel about this and why it came to be a thing that adults literally swear oaths to. I don't see a lot of people in P&R that I think are overly susceptible to this stuff, but Jungle Noise is a different story, likely chocked with these believers. Why are we so easily manipulated by anything that even remotely reassures our political leanings? Why, without any substantial evidence of these theories bearing out does the movement grow rather than contract and disappear? Are people so unsatisfied with actual reality that they want someone to create a new one?
