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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:12PM (3 children)
Oh, yes! That is why.
*We envy his ignorance.
*We envy his stupidity.
*We envy his girth.
*We envy his fatheadedness.
*We envy his racism.
*We envy his rude and obnoxious behavior.
*We envy his "booty bump".
*We envy his bliss that comes from being completely ignorant.
*We envy his not knowing where Estonia is.
*We envy his living in Arkansas (Oh, crap, too obvious that this is sarcasm?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:52PM (2 children)
Discussions get derailed easily enough when everyone is at least marginally serious. Some moron spouting his idiot tirade only derails the conversation sooner. Of course, that was probably your intent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @12:42AM (1 child)
Gotta admit you had me in the first half, but you weren't talking about runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:04AM
I envy his ability to be completely and totally oblivious to how ignorant and stupid he is! If only I had half of that ability! Ah, we can all dream, can't we? But he is kinda racist, so there is that.