QAnon and religion as real-time participatory fantasies

The Atlantic discusses the "new American religion" known as QAnon. It's a very interesting cover story in an elite magazine. I think we can go further, though: what is here and now deemed as a "real-time participatory conspiracy theory" (QAnon) is only a special form (maybe extreme and certainly ugly, but fundamentally not different from an analytical point of view) of social unfolding of religious phenomena as real-time participatory fantasies (inherently fact-free or fact-shy, especially in their emergence stage). We are witnessing interesting things, albeit a little sad and probably dangerous as well. 

Second day of school...

 

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