There's a surprisingly important lesson in the 'QAnon shaman' and his antics behind bars

[John Ludi]

9. I knew a guy

back when I first moved from Detroit to MPLS (1992) whose belief system was a hodgepodge of Nazi occultism, Nordic paganism (Odinism), and faux-Native American mysticism. Interesting and repellent character who thought he was the "ubermensch". This clown could be his son...if some tragic circumstance would have allowed the guy to breed.

This stuff has been going on a long time. Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum are both classic send ups of this kind of thinking...where there is basically an intellectual supermarket where insecure little people who like to pretend they have some "inside track" to some sort of spiritual ascension sew together a bunch of unrelated items and parade it around to show everyone around how "special" they are.

Mindless puerile egotism masquerading as something far more profound.