Martin, that was actually really fun. I kept finding myself saying, "yes, exactly" to point after point the author made when stating QAnon claims in order to ridicule those same QAnon claims. OMGosh, it was so funny! And I thought to myself, "Did this author actually use an article full of recognizers and resulting ridicule to actually bring into the author's sleeping community of readers actual knowledge they needed to know? Was it deliberate on his part to do that? Or was the author so clueless that he thought repeating so many Q-related claims would never ultimately lay the groundwork for waking up some of those same readers years down the road?
Think about it - the author could have written the article without stating any of the claims at all and basically accomplished his apparent goal, or he could have taken just one truly weird claim and made all the same points without naming any other claims.
From our current perspective, though, the list of claims reads like a list of truths - was that deliberate, the only way he could get those claims registered in his readers' minds for later? Or did the Q folks set out from the start to troll folks like this author into spreading their information (ie, there is no bad marketing but rather only reinforcement)?
This is a beautiful and apt metaphor—the law's patient presumption of life offers a powerful lens for Geddes' journey . Like a missing person legally held in a state of "not dead," he refuses the social and legal pressures to declare his intellectual self deceased, instead insisting on his right to personhood and presence until definitive proof of his "wrongness" is established . He is not demanding a final verdict, but rather resisting a forced declaration of cognitive death, choosing instead the dignity of a living, questioning sovereign soul over the tidy administrative convenience of a recognised identity.
Martin, that was actually really fun. I kept finding myself saying, "yes, exactly" to point after point the author made when stating QAnon claims in order to ridicule those same QAnon claims. OMGosh, it was so funny! And I thought to myself, "Did this author actually use an article full of recognizers and resulting ridicule to actually bring into the author's sleeping community of readers actual knowledge they needed to know? Was it deliberate on his part to do that? Or was the author so clueless that he thought repeating so many Q-related claims would never ultimately lay the groundwork for waking up some of those same readers years down the road?
Think about it - the author could have written the article without stating any of the claims at all and basically accomplished his apparent goal, or he could have taken just one truly weird claim and made all the same points without naming any other claims.
From our current perspective, though, the list of claims reads like a list of truths - was that deliberate, the only way he could get those claims registered in his readers' minds for later? Or did the Q folks set out from the start to troll folks like this author into spreading their information (ie, there is no bad marketing but rather only reinforcement)?
Kinda mind-bending. :-D
This is a beautiful and apt metaphor—the law's patient presumption of life offers a powerful lens for Geddes' journey . Like a missing person legally held in a state of "not dead," he refuses the social and legal pressures to declare his intellectual self deceased, instead insisting on his right to personhood and presence until definitive proof of his "wrongness" is established . He is not demanding a final verdict, but rather resisting a forced declaration of cognitive death, choosing instead the dignity of a living, questioning sovereign soul over the tidy administrative convenience of a recognised identity.
An exquisite dissection executed with great clarity ! Well done (as always) !
This was a fun and satisfying read, fren.