Sean Donnelly’s mother got sucked into the world of QAnon conspiracy theories, so he made a little video about it, including documenting some bets he made with her about whether or not Biden would still be in office 3 months after the inauguration or if Tom Hanks & Oprah would soon be arrested for pedophilia. Remember when Baby Boomers were all concerned that the internet was going to be harmful for their Gen X and Millennial children and grandchildren? And now all these Boomers are getting brainwashed by Facebook and Fox News?
QAmom via Kottke.org
I see a lot of distressing things in this short video.
The way that the family of this woman are stuck in a position of treating her complete separation from reality as a quirk or something to avoid talking about. She’s something to work around.
The way that even when there are consequences for believing things that are patently false, she holds fast to those beliefs and the identity that comes with them.
The knowledge that there are people like this in so many families across the country. Families struggling with how to live with delusional members who need more than a quick fix to rejoin the world around them.
There’s a kind of mourning that happens when the person is still there, but the person you knew them to be is gone. Maybe forever.
This Builds Character 