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A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon - Playing with reality (20min+ read. A bit lengthy, but it worth)
In brief - apophenia. Just a tad more elaborated - induced/guided aphonenia.
What's fascinating is the buttons of human psyche that are pushed to sink people deep into the rabbit holes:
- Follow The Breadcrumbs - don't tell, just select the dots that are to be connected
- The Eureka Effect - the rush of the Aha! moments and the feeling of being rewarded
- Lamestream Media - passivate against the reality that's not supportive to the agenda
- Community - sense of belonging, behavior reinforcement; a population large and motivated enough to adopt an evolutionary strategy in selecting the best CT-es
All the above are exemplified - and these examples is how I got to get WTF Beyoncé has to do with QAnon.
So, if all it's an Alternate Reality Game, there's no harm, right? Not so fast, the US Military Academy ran the The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making? article in its "Combating Terrorism Center" journal, stating
QAnon represents a public security threat with the potential in the future to become a more impactful domestic terror threat. This is true especially given that conspiracy theories have a track record of propelling terrorist violence elsewhere in the West as well as QAnon’s more recent influence on mainstream political discourse.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 18 2020, @04:59PM
It sorta works. For those who the education they received (and on which's basis they act) was actually operant conditioning.
For the others who have their critical thinking kicking in a habitual manner (i.e. became way of life), button pushing fails in the majority of time (but, unless they are not married, not all the time)
In particular, QAnon conditioning will fail fast to critical thinking; simply because the QAnon mode of thinking stops when a possible explanation pops up, validation of the hypothesis be damned, we're jumping into finding an explanation that fits for the next puzzle; such a way is incompatible with critical thinking.