{"id":2240,"date":"2021-03-22T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:59:42","slug":"the-anons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2021\/03\/22\/the-anons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anons have been around since at least the early 1950s. <\/p>\n

Fifty-some years after Alcoholics Anonymous officially became “Al-Anon”, the four little letters took on a darker tone than self-help and ‘people helping people’. The turn of the millennium and the overreactions of the power structure to events like Nine-Eleven called forth a new group called just Anon, or Anonymous. Wikipedia describes them as a ‘hacker group’, which is not wrong, but at least incomplete. <\/p>\n

During the Trump years, the Anon known as Q-Anon caught the public imagination and maintains a good deal of fervent support, in spite of Q’s predictive failures and Trump’s loss. <\/p>\n

A central tenet of QAnon belief is that many of society’s elites are pedophiles. Sometimes this is expressed in ridiculous ways, such as Pizzagate<\/a>, and sometimes in very credible and verifiable ones, as with Epstein. I’m a regular listener of the podcast known as TrueAnon, and that’s a good place to go for level-headed non-Trumpian discussion of these issues.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to watch the media and other self-appointed guardians of What Is True try to deal with the Anons.<\/p>\n

On QAnon’s Wikipedia page, the first “See Also” link reads:
\n“Apophenia \u2013 tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things”<\/p>\n

Subtextually, we’re being instructed to believe that the entire QAnon phenomenon is just a cult of crazies. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile and elsewhere on Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n

“On May 31, 2020, a person or group claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective tweeted that they have uploaded a number of documents to the Scribd account OpDeathEaters that contain incriminating evidence against U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in multiple cases of paedophilia, rape and sexual assault. According to what they found Epstein and Trump were co-defendants in the one case.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, again elsewhere on Wikipedia<\/a>: <\/p>\n

“QAnon, or simply Q, is a disproven and discredited American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office.”<\/p>\n

So in broad terms, incriminating evidence exists, but somehow, conversely, QAnon is only a conspiracy theory, and it is, in total, apophenic and “disproven and discredited”. <\/p>\n

I don’t know who shot JFK, and I don’t have a considered alternative to the lone gunman theory.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any strong beliefs either way about whether people have literally walked on the moon.<\/p>\n

I don’t spend time trying to convince myself about who was behind the towers in New York coming down, or which of them fell when, or why.<\/p>\n

But I do believe that this society, this culture, this Empire, is run by and for an evil cabal that perfectly conforms to the definitions of words like ‘satanic’ and ‘rapey’ and ‘cannibalistic’. <\/p>\n

It’s only tangentially important, whether certain specific wealthy and powerful individuals have literally engaged in specific immoral acts with kids or corpses. The odds are very good that they have, but even better that they’ll never answer for any of it. They own the rotten system. The system, the Institutions, exist to enrich and protect them, and exist for no other reason than that. <\/p>\n

As Spring breaks, my soul cries out to me, to find a way to live apart from all of it always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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