I’ve been thinking about this a lot, but haven’t really been able to put it into words. In a lot of ways, the pandemic strikes at the heart of the individualism narrative in america. This sort of idea that as long as you work hard and work smart, you can make it, is just destroyed by the fact that we literally just need people to stay home or the economy is going to crash. Both ideas can’t be true, so you end up with large groups of people who are certain that masks don’t help and there’s no reason to stay home.
I had a conversation with my Q boss yesterday. I told him essentially what I wrote above about Q… That the world is a complicated place and people latch on to HQ and this great awakening because they are desperately searching for meaning and a way to make sense of everything…
He tried to convince me that Tom Hanks eats children. When I asked for his evidence and what persuaded him, he mentioned “creepy social media posts of children’s gloves”, becoming a Greek citizen to evade arrest, and this guy:
I explained that creepy instagram posts, moving to another country, and evidence less claims of a mentally ill man weren’t evidence and he was aghast that I could honesty believe this actor killed himself after saying he wasn’t suicidal.
The brokenness of these brains never ceases to amaze me.
fight fire with fire. he’s trolling your ass. make it clear to him that his position is so absurd you don’t believe you’re having an honest conversation, but are instead both having a goof, making up wilder and wilder stories for laughs
FACT: george w bush was president on 9/11 and in the days before
FACT: george w bush met with and planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks with osama bin laden at mount vernon in early/mid 2001
who had the most to gain from the 9/11 terrorist attacks? BUSH. who bought flight insurance for passengers on both the planes? BUSH. who fired a missile into the pentagon after an official there threatened to leak the truth? BUSH
Yeah, with stuff like the dead actor reply with stuff like “how can you be sure he’s dead?”
“OH, you trust the mainstream media reporting on him dying?”
may i suggest “molemen”? john hodgman’s descriptions of the molemen in his book more information than you require provides good interesting lore to work with.