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Anyone know if QAnon is more GenX or Boomer? Somehow I expect GenX. It seems like a peculiarly X’er way of going crazy, with lots of data.
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QAnon is Driving Families Apart | As her mom posts QAnon theories on Facebook, Emily gets texts: “They’re like, ‘I can’t look at your mom’s Facebook.’ And I’m like, ‘I can’t look at my mother’s Facebook.’ I wish my parents had no access to social media.” teenvogue.com/story/qanon-co
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You’re imagining a particular urban kind. Remember it’s a full generation. There’s vast numbers of them in conservative Christian red towns. They’re not all cyberpunk heroes in big cities.
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Boomers and X definitely make up the majority. New agey greens and Christian Right, lots of antivaxxers from both camps too. Same people targeted by Cambridge Analytica
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Frankly? I feel responisble for some of it. In an argument about Stefen Molyneux(2014), I laid out how he was attempted to create a virtual cult & all the ways he had fucked up. Sadly, the once friend I was talking to, fed my analysis directly to those behind Qanon.
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boomers grew up keeping two sets of mental books -- what they were told to want and aspire to and celebrate, and what they gradually learned about how the world works, and what those things they achieved actually cost. Q is how some are now forced to reconcile the dissonance.