When i went to pepperdine university as an undergraduate, i was a boardigan christian. And then at pepperdin the hot thing, and this was 19 75 or so, everyone wis reading atlas shrugged. It's like, oh my god. This thing is not big into novels, but all righ, i read atlas shrug, caus everybody's reading atlas. Same thing in a very manicean the world is very simple, black and white. Those are the bad people, and we're the good ones. You don't want to be on the side of the devil and of the clintons ad of soros. Those people are evil. Here
Michael Shermer speaks with Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, about QAnon and its followers.
On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm” — then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump’s remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not?