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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, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki 2.0 on Wednesday November 18 2020, @08:39PM (1 child)
That tweet isn't advocating violence, it is describing historic precedent. The US has shifted so far towards fascism in the pursuit of unfettered greedy capitalism while trying to silo different aspects of society. China had their communist revolution and a lot of land owners were murdered or sent to reeducation camps where many perished. That is what happens when you try and separate business from society. Same thing in France. It is cycles of greed where each successive generation is normalized to think they deserve all the riches they've inherited or stolen, so they steal some more until the peasants start lopping off heads.
Businesses that make these situations worse are remembered, and CEOs will indeed be the first ones attacked by mobs.
I find it strange you would get so outraged over SV politics when we have conservative militias openly planning to terrorize the nation, yet we hear zilch from conservatives about that threat. Conservatives condemn even the slightest hint of violence from liberals while cheering on rightwing violence and oppression.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 20 2020, @03:10PM
Sure, it is. Historical precedent here is almost two centuries old Marxist threats of violence, if they don't get what they want. It doesn't get even a little more palatable because some rich guy is saying it.
Cool story, bro. But it was a vastly corrupt Chinese society not business that was the fertile soil for a Communist revolution. Kuomintang didn't separate business from society. It was all revenue source to them.
As to your complaint about "try and separate business from society", that follows in the Marxist traditions quite well. Some of their best ideas were incidental or even intended as straw men arguments to be struck down in scorn (like the idea that capitalists work or that labor isn't the source of value). Truth haphazardly strewn through the delusion and lies. You want separation of business and society - it prevents things like "too big to fail" and the economic equivalent of the state church.