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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @07:30PM (1 child)
And who gets to decide who is "trash who barely deserve to be called human?" You?
No thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @01:29PM
That's rather the point I was making. I do think we can create some guidelines few people would disagree with, but anybody who was granted this sort of power would eventually come to abuse it. Even if I think "I" would do right and I was made emperor, it's still not a power I would necessarily entrust myself with because what happens with the emperor to follow me? Or what if I simply lose my mind in older age, or become emotional as any human is wont to on occasion?
This is why eugenics, what was once a mainstay of academic theory in the United States, is also a horrible idea. In a vacuum it can dramatically improve society even moreso when many of those called on to sacrifice the rights to bear offspring often would not even see it as a sacrifice. It was even endorsed by a who's who of society from Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) to WEB Dubois to all of the big names in academia. But the problem these people did not consider is that in practice it *will* be abused. Hitler was not an aberration, he was an inevitability. When any government or leader is granted too much power, it is only a matter of time before that power is turned to evil.