If you are interested in the origins of Qanon

FSB & MAGA, LLC

This stuff fascinates me.

A couple of months ago a DUer posted an absolutely fascinating article about Q Anon written by (I think) a game developer who broke it down. He concluded that Q Anon self-conditions followers to look for and inevitably find connections between totally unrelated things, and he wrote how at a certain point the game is self-perpetuating because human beings find pleasure (dopamine release) in locating patterns in random coincidences and finding "connections" between two things that are unrelated in any way. People who do this also feel smarter than others, who are missing what is actually going on in the world. So the game is pleasurable, addicting and self-reinforcing.

In some ways, it was a frightening article, because the reader is left to conclude that it will be very hard to stop people from tumbling into deeper and deeper layers of self-delusion. But he really explained how this is possible and why certain people are so susceptible.

I wish I had kept better track of that article. It was truly ingenious.

a few days ago. It really needs to be spread further.


https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5

Thanks for sharing. I am going to share it with people I know. When I see these people interviewed I am stunned at their certitude. This article makes so much sense from a psychological perspective.

Charles Bukowski - 'The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.'

Bukowski was special.

The comeback that gets us in trouble::::

Are you sure?

Us: Absolutely! (Ruh Roh!)

https://www.wired.com/story/qanon-most-dangerous-multiplatform-game/?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4xbm/what-alternate-reality-games-teach-us-about-the-dangerous-appeal-of-qanon

I promise to keep better track of these articles!

IMHO, this is a brilliant article.

Nostradamus in that people go back to the drops and reassign them meaning to match what happens rather than judging them based on the context in which they were written. They also overlook things that he directly predicted that never happened or come up with some ridiculous claim that they really did happen and we just don't know it yet.

It's also important to remember that Q hasn't posted anything in months. This is a cycle of "influencers" now pushing things out to keep their own grifts going.

There is an economy built off of this. Each of these major influencers like MajorPatriot and PrayingMedic have built businesses on the back of pushing Q content to the believers. In a way, it's these people who are the most to blame for what's happening. These people actually believe the lies that they are being told and it is ruining a lot of people lives and not just because they entered the capitol and got arrested.