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213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

The Michael Shermer Show

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Are You Telling Me?

i think what people find in these ings is an anidote to the kind of meaningless grind of life. We want to believe that there is a deep state running things, and we can do something about it. And an uncovering theories like this makes us feel like werethe heroes in our own story. The size of the cause should match the size of the effect. Ifyou get something big, you dlekt. It's n different names for the same thing. You no call it the deep state, the new world order, the illuminat, whatever. It's there are powerful people in charge, and we're going to stop themd.

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