As much as I love doing my podcast and doing what I can to get this conversation out there, I would so much rather this QAnon thing go away, you know? My podcast, of course, is about families torn apart by QAnon and this season was full of emotional stories. It's exhausting. We have the father whose son joined a militia and kept bringing guns to his house. We have the son who survived a school shooting only to be accused of being a crisis actor by his father. We have the Black woman whose white mother keeps sending her racist material, and then we have the broken-hearted man whose soulmate snapped on him out of the blue and threatened to have him framed for a crime he didn't commit and then killed in prison. It's all very heavy, and I truly wish I didn't have to make this podcast.
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I think you must use Wix. Commenting is difficult and problematic. Nevertheless, I will persist.
I think that what you are doing, and your reasons for doing it, are extremely valuable. At the same time, I have to wonder if it is actually DOING something, apart from helping you process what is going on with your own parents. I don't mean this as any kind of a criticism. It's just an observation.
the last few years, especially since the pandemic, but really, ever since the republican party and evangelicals together decided to abandon reality, I have been wondering if it is even possible to effect any change in these people who have decided that facebook memes and right wing talking points are a good substitute for reality.
it doesn't matter what the actual subject matter is. Gay rights, transgender rights, the war in Ukraine, flat earth "science", anti-VAX misinformation. Anti-VAX politics, Covid, chem trails, secret inderground pedophilia, networks, adenochrome, the january 6 insurrection/attempted coup, the validity of christian doctrine, wokeness, myths about DEMOCRAT cities being destroyed by antifa and BLM...
the list just goes on and on and on.
They are not interested in reality. They are not interested in getting back to reality. They don't care about facts, logic, and experience. What they care about is what they think, and whether what they think gives them that little frisson of excitement, power, superiority, and again, on and on and on. I was just in a conversation this morning with a man about the ongoing attacks by the right wing on transgender and gender dysphoric people. He said, although I am not quoting him directly: "I don't care what science says. I don't care with compassion says. I don't care what cultural anthropology or medicine say. I'm not going to change my mind about this subject."
How do you argue with that?
And all of this is complicated by one more thing: on the Internet, anyone can be anything, do anything, and say anything. Who is to know if they are actually who they say they are or believe what they say? I have become increasingly convinced in the past few years that a large number of people who comment on the Internet know exactly what they're doing, and are either doing it for money, are doing it out of patriotism for an enemy country, or are doing it just to raise hell and see what kind of chaos they can cause.
How do you argue with that?
I don't have a solution for this. I'm not sure if there is one. But what it tells me is that large numbers of people are broken, they don't know that they're broken, and they have no idea of or interest about getting fixed.