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.

QAnon appeared in 2017 and in essence can be described as a fantasy creation, a psychosocial operation. Thoughts, fantasies, and feelings are substance of political life. They enable formation and realisation and are sustaining to propelling and supporting the QAnon visions. Resembling to the Biblical walking cross introduced in the early Christian Gospel of Peter – verses 39-42 – to wake up the soldiers during the resurrection of Christ. The idea of the resurrection of Christ and the agency of the elements inform the fantasy and empower the Christian action. Cultivation of elaborate fantasy lives overall enables a cult-like intersection between the truth and the real where the two become perplexingly complex and require ethical interventions. The idea of cultivation is a culturological phenomenon well known through the lifestyles of cultivation of the soil that later became translated into the Cicero’s understanding of the cultivation of the human mind.

The Global Network on Extremism & Technology introduces QAnon as, “decentralised violent ideology rooted in an unfounded conspiracy theory that a globally active “Deep State” cabal of satanic pedophile elites is responsible for all the evil in the world”. The awakening includes elaborate ideas that contain conceptualisations of coded words, satanic symbolism, and other elements. Speaking in the ideas of religion, most eloquently described by St. John Chrysostom’s idea that after the sin comes shame and courage follows repentance, but should Satan upset the order the courage would be given to the sin and the shame to repentance. Working from this foundational Christian notion and applying it to the notions of the QAnon, the elaborate fantasy life shed from ethics or immersed into the variations of innovative, unverified, and prior unfamiliar notions and dynamics leaves a void for collapsed interpretations of order and disorder alike when relying on the claim of the satanic essence in the foundation of the current world order.

Popular weaponised considerations and fears could be explored in the narratives of human trafficking, smuggling, and migrants’ issues. Simplifications and conspiracies heavily overlay complex perceptions. The populistic notions could be based on mixture of prior familiar issues that felt threatening and contested, and enabled by the more justified, initial considerations on the United States national level. “Satanic pedophile elites” becomes the not too far of a step into envisioning of the more horrific realities and the awakening of the sleeping soldiers to follow the walking Q in the case of the QAnon. This awakening however can be seen accompanied by problems of inducing structure, emotional drivers, bounded rationality, and belief perseverance.

Appeal is not necessarily limited to the far-right ideas and can appeal to the concerns, imagination, and fears of everybody. Leading to consider QAnon as not solely a far-right structure, but rather an entity of its own that is not as much concerned with governance as it is concerned with the idea of a messianic figure who happens to be in connection to the government role. Highlighting the cultic or messianic notion that is worshipable equally by all believers.

There is an inevitable epistemic question that requires to think critically of what is thought to be a reality and why. The epistemology of the QAnon membership requires to explore the truth and belief and the consequential knowledge informing the truth and reality paradigm of human interpretation and perception.