So we joke about how easy it would be to create a QAnon identity and start a Patreon where we, too, can post fake lists of people who have been arrested & cloned.

The joke is "I'd just have to not care about other people" and that's true but ignores the inevitable self-harm.

How we think about things kinda rewires your brain. That's what learning is, after all. Watch Arrival, it's a good movie. And when it comes to learning about things that aren't true, it can be dangerous to rewire your brain.

Normal people can see other people wearing red shoes and not have a reaction.

Just because I've been watching the fictional world around QAnon for so long, I can't-- I see someone in red shoes & I have a moment where I laugh about it to myself.

And that's just from *exposure*.

Imagine if my *livelihood* depended upon not only pointing out the shoes, but reverse-engineering a theory about how that person must be connected to the Pope's baby-leather factory or whatever.

This could get ugly real quick.

Alex Jones came into a civil court & swears he doesn't really believe in FEMA camps, then next day on the air he assures his listeners that he needed to say that in court but FEMA camps are very real.

I'd like to say I know which Alex was lying, but I don't, not for sure.

Certainly, not everyone will end up like Lane Davis, but you also cannot get out without being changed.

The more effort you put into your QAnon Patreon, the worse it would get for your brain. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/lane-davis-ralph-retort-seattle4truth-alt-right