Conspiracy Theories OF QAnon

 

QAnon, conspiracy theories

Comet Ping-Pong, Pizzagate

“QAnon” prophecies about American conspiracy theories entering a dangerous new phase

If you are one of their followers, no one will be able to know. You may look like any other American citizen. You could be a mom, cleaning leftovers from her baby's plate. You could be a guy with headphones around his head crossing the street. You can be a bookkeeper, a dentist, or a grandmother making cakes in her kitchen. You may have an affiliation with an evangelical church. But it's hard to tell who you are just by looking at you - which is good, because one day dark forces may try to track you down!

You know this sounds crazy, but you don't care. You know that a small group of manipulators, working in the shadows, know the movements of the world. You know they are strong enough to abuse children without fear of reprisals. You know the mainstream media are their servants, in partnership with Hillary Clinton and the secret residents of the deep state. You know that Donald Trump is the only person standing between you and a cursed and destroyed world. You see disasters and epidemics sweeping the planet, and you understand that they are part of the plan. You know that the clash between good and evil is unavoidable, and you yearn for the next great awakening of mankind. So you must be on guard at all times. You must protect your ears from the ridicule of the ignorant, you must find those who are like you. And you must be ready to fight.

 QAnon first appearance !

QAnon's origins are recent, but nonetheless, separating myth from reality can be difficult. One place to start with is Edgar Madison Welch, a devout father of two who lived until Sunday, December 4 2016, he lived an unremarkably monotonous life in the small town of Salisbury, North Carolina. that morning, Welch grabbed his cell phone, a box of shotgun shells, and three loaded rifles a 9mm AR-15, a 36-caliber Colt pistol, and a shotgun , and jumped into his Toyota Prius. he drove 360 ​​miles to the Mysore neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC. he parked his car, and put the gun in the holster next to his hip. Grabbing an AR-15 to his chest, he walked through the front door of a pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong.

Comet Ping Pong happens to be where kids usually gather there with their parents and teammates after soccer games on Saturdays, and local teams perform on weekends. In the back, children challenge their grandparents to ping-pong matches as they wait for pizza to come out of the large clay oven in the middle of the restaurant. In short, Comet Ping Pong is a popular place in Washington.

On that day, people noticed Welch as soon as he walked in. (the AR-15 makes anyone's entry visible in most social appearance ), but especially in a place like the Comet. when parents, children, and staff rushed outside, most of them still chewing, Welch began to move inside the restaurant, later trying to use a butter knife to open a locked lock, before giving up and firing several shots from his rifle at the lock. behind the door was a small cupboard with a computer inside. this was not what he had expected.

Welch traveled to Washington due to the conspiracy theory now known as "Pizzagate", which claimed that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex center inside Comet Ping Pong. the idea arose in October 2016, when WikiLeaks publicly announced a slew of emails stolen from the account of John Podesta, the former White House chief of staff and then Clinton's presidential campaign chief; Comet was mentioned repeatedly in exchanges that Podesta had with the restaurateur, James Alfantes and others. the emails were mainly about fundraising events, but prominent Donald Trump figures like Mike Cernovich and Alex Jones started making the claim ,which originated in dark corners of internet sites (like 4chan) and then spread to accessible areas. (Twitter and YouTube)  the emails were evidence of child sexual abuse. some conspiracy theorists assert that this is taking place in the basement of the Comet restaurant, where there is no basement. references in the emails to "pizza" and "pasta" have been interpreted as code words referring to both "girls" and "little boys".

Shortly after Trump's election, while "Pizzagate" went viral online, Welch started watching conspiracy theory videos on YouTube in a big frenzy. he tried to enlist the help of at least two people to spread vigilance and sensitize the seriousness of the matter, and to send them text messages about his desire to sacrifice what he called “the lives of a few in order to preserve the lives of many” and to fight “a corrupt regime that kidnaps, tortures and rapes children in our backyard.” when Welch finally finds himself inside the restaurant and understands that Comet Ping Pong is just a regular pizza shop, he puts down his firearms, walks out the front door and surrenders to the police, who were securing the perimeter. "The information I had on this matter was not 100 percent correct," Welch told the New York Times after his arrest.

All of this, a community, has defined a global vision that will soon have a name: QAnon, derived from the name of a mysterious character, “Q” posted anonymously on 4chan. QAnon doesn't have a field site, but it does have its own infrastructure, literature, a growing group of followers, and plenty of publicity.

It also displays other key characteristics that "Pizzagate" was lacking. In the face of uncomfortable realities, Canon has ambiguity and the ability to adapt to maintain movement of this kind over time. For QAnon, every contradiction can be explained and no form of argument can make an argument against it.

The world of QAnon is sprawling and deep, layer upon layer of different contexts, acronyms, characters, and symbolic shorthands to get to know each other. the White House is their “castle.” the word "crumbs" is a clue. “CBS” means “calm before the storm,“when we go united, we all come,has become an expression of solidarity among the followers of “Q.” (Oddly enough, both phrases, were used in the trailer for Ridley Scott's 1996 movie "White Squall" watch it on YouTube, and you'll see that the comments section below is overwhelmed with pro-Q sentiment.) there is also the "Q clock," which refers to the calendar that some factions of Q supporters use to try to decode supposed clues based on chronological cues from Q's posts and Trump's tweets.

In his classic 1957 book, the Pursuit of the Millennium, historian Norman Cohn examined the emergence of conspiratorial thinking over many centuries. he found one common case: this way of thinking has consistently emerged in areas where rapid social and economic change is taking place, and in periods of time when the potential for great wealth was abundant but not available to most people. this was true in Europe during the Crusades in the eleventh century, during the Black Death in the fourteenth century, in the Rhine Valley in the sixteenth century, and with William Miller in New York in the nineteenth century. and it is true in America in the twenty-first century.

Seventh-day Adventists and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are burgeoning religious movements in America. don't be surprised if QAnon becomes one like them both. it already has far more followers than either of these two sects in their early decades.

people express their faith through a study dedicated to “Q” as part of a foundational text, through the development of cult groups for “Q,” and through expressions of gratitude for what faith in Q has brought to their lives.

does it matter to us that we don't know who "Q" is? not what is divine always remains a mystery. does it matter that essential aspects of the "Q" teachings cannot be confirmed? no, no one can affirm the basic principles of Christianity.

Among QAnon believers, faith in the community remains absolute. Its believers describe a feeling of rebirth, an irreversible excitement of existential knowledge. they are sure that a great awakening is coming. they will wait as long as they must survive.