Epistemic polarisation, conspiracies, and the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol continued the action of pro-Trump national collective of conspiracy theory, religio-political ideology driven individuals concerned with the current world order appealing to QAnon supporters, and concerns, imagination, and fears of the broader public. The epistemology of the QAnon membership requires to explore the truth and belief and the consequential knowledge informing the truth and reality paradigm of the insurrectionists.
Truth and reality paradigm of the QAnon
Recent social and political developments in the United States of America brought attention to many participants of the right and left wings, the far-right and extreme leftists. Attention encompassing of what is believed to be right wing and far-right, but in essence is a mixed conspiratorial thinking of the QAnon movement. QAnon is a pro-Trump nationalist collective of conspiracy theory, religio-political ideology driven individuals concerned with the current world order.
American citizen, national identity, the leftists and far-right divide
In May of 2020, the streets across North America and Europe erupted with protests condoning police brutality and embedded racism at the societal core. Triggered by death of George Floyd inflicted by law enforcement during an arrest undertaken in Minneapolis on the grounds of a suspected counterfeit bill distribution and continuously reignited by the casualties that followed within the Black American population and across other communities, resulting in not only a societally complex situation, but considerable reciprocal radicalisation. Along with the peaceful protests, solidarity, and creative flares America seen the efforts of the leftists and the far-right to propel their agendas with vandalism, particular to the shared grievances speeches, and violence.
Heterogeneous ideal and the racism of Canada and the United States
Racism and its existence are an unlikely novelty in the contemporary worldview. From colonial conquests to ethnic discriminations, and the paradoxical post European-Western Enlightenment racial experimentation; the way we perceive and interpret racism on all levels of society is ever-changing. Change is accelerated by the technological advancements and enabled by the social connectivity of the Internet and the tools designed for the social globalised society. Accelerated if not from the scope of per individual equity, then from the scope of connectivity established over some hundred or two hundred years that today separate from the overall socially disconnected and abrupt societies.