Qanon uses systematically the confusion between p->q and q->p, like prohibition, but on larger scale. Mark Twain said that a lies has the time to go around the Earth the time Truth put his shoes, and that is true, except that with the technological communications, the lies have the time to go a million times around the world. It is a phenomenon akin to the pseudo-religion, the exploitation of fear, etc.
What is crazy is that two members of the congress are Qanon people, which is corroborated by what they say and how they act. One of them has just some days ago write a bill to impeach Biden, for example (on unclear grounds). They single out some truth, generalise it (without grounds). They know that fewer that people will take all confirmation as somehow proving the facts, which is just invalid science. They are dangerous, but the lack of investment in solid education for all is what enable that kind of foolishness. It is not worth than Russian or Nazi propaganda, but it is made much more efficacious, and thus much more dangerous, by the current technology which amplify the misinformation and makes it resonate in many social groups. Many people confuse freedom of speech with freedom of defamation, or freedom of lying, which is not helped by the relativistic “postmodern” pseudo-philophy... It is a sort of e-jesus. If we don’t fight this, it can make life difficult for centuries if not millennia. In that optic, it is relief that Trump did not win the election. Qanon loves Trump, and Trump loves all what loves him… Qanon type of conspiracy will not help humanity to face their real challenge. Fighting Qanon, and all fake-religion is one of the big challenge to humanity. As you can expect, I do consider that making theology back to science will help a lot, and is even necessary at some point, if only to remind people to doubt even more in the fundamental domain, and keep alive the critical, doubtful, attitude. But most people still prefer the comfortable lies. Bruno > On 16 Jan 2021, at 02:49, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a video everyone should watch. In working on cyber-security since > last spring I have brushed into some of this and have come to know CICADA and > its role on the dark web. The world we live in is in a precarious state, > where our infrastructure depends on systems of vast complexity, but at the > same time more of humanity seems to be entering into some sort of voluntary > schizophrenic state. > > This makes an important connection with this bizarre subculture of > cryptography on the web. There is literally a vast network of people out > there doing these things. In college I was a bit of a hacker, but it was > elementary stuff. Today, there is a dark industry of hacking the internet, > and this has resulted in a continual war. This war makes light of the old > saying, "Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?" Everyone has joined, > and it is a huge multi-networked struggle or conflict that involves > ultimately all of us. > > I worked as a contractor to two companies that did work with the INTEL > community. The reality then was you has the United States and the Soviet > Union in a dynamic tension, and this involved what I worked on which was > SIGINT, or signals in intelligence. The matrix of actors of this sort has > grown exponentially since the time of the late 80s and the first half of the > 90s. What occurs with cyber-security, even in the private world, is much the > same and it curiosly involves propaganda games. QAnon is really just the > propaganda wing of a much larger network of actors. In fact I suspect QAnon > will fade away, but something or maybe several new things will emerge this > decade. > > About every century some region of the world enters into some sort of > gregarious group-thought hypermania. This results in a mass disaster. Last > century this took place in Russia, Italy, Germany and Japan. Before then it > was the Napoleonic wars, and this pattern can be seen through the reformation > wars back to the middle ages. Even tribal or indigenous societies can have a > pattern of this, where every 3 or 4 generations they tend to fight wars. We > are coming in queue here for the next big global tango, It also might be > worth pointing out these have tended to happen with the introduction of new > communication technologies. None of this looks at all good. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4vb6UWhf3o > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/673de927-9b5e-4ebe-9001-7066a5155d9cn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/673de927-9b5e-4ebe-9001-7066a5155d9cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/BB949273-F947-47E9-9535-FF840EC3A45C%40ulb.ac.be.
