The alignment of astral bodies. Q drops. Turn your eyes to the sky and get your fortune read by our guest (and guest writer) LivPosting. You'll feel as if you were reclining (intellectually) in a salon, the news muted for just one blissful moment.
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Yeah, I'm sort of into astrology in a sort of peripheral way.
I appreciate it as a sort of thing that people follow.
I find it very fucked up that when I read the profile of my sign, it's like exactly me.
That's not fun.
That's the thing too.
When I read stuff... When it's like nailing me, just killing it, or like killing it about my relationship.
Yeah, absolutely.
Relationship stuff.
It sucks to just be like an archetype.
Yeah, like Susan Collins like wrote about on her website.
Oh my god imagine Yeah, you're you're like one of the 12 characters you can pick to play the game, and you only realize that later You're like wait.
There's like people that are exactly like me.
Oh, yeah, you're one of the character classes damn I mean everyone is into that sort of like what some type of like what you could classify as a rational like cultural practices I mean one of the things I was into was the like When Trump got COVID stuff, like, does he really have it?
And then like the fake Melania stuff is sort of at that similar level of like, is that like a body double?
Which is like sort of at the level of Q in a certain sense, because it's just like, you know, nonsense, like it's absurd, but it's fun to like...
Engage in them.
Oh yeah, Jake and I had a very long Twitter DM about Epstein's nose bridge.
Yes, when he was rolled out on that weird, and there was a weird single photo.
Oh man, it got baked so hard on the left.
Oh my god.
We loved it, that was so fun.
Until Travis told us off.
Fucking...
Yeah, he said his joy.
By the way, listener, welcome to the hundredth premium chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the QAnon Astrology episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokotansky, Julian Fields, Liv Fosten, and Travis View.
In our recent episodes, we've attempted to keep up with the chaotic and ever-changing news, which is pretty fucking exhausting, to be frank.
So this week, we wanted to pull away a little bit from all the madness and kind of reflect on the confluence of mysticism, QAnon, and astrology.
And to help us do this, we have streamer and leftist Twitter shitposter Liv, who also goes by LivPosting, and she has written a segment laying out the connection between interpreting QDrops and interpreting the alignment of astral bodies.
So first of all, how's it going, Liv?
And can you give us a little background on how you got into this topic?
It's going great!
One of the main ways that I got into this topic was firstly just like a morbid curiosity with QAnon as like a social phenomenon.
What causes it, how it relates to other like elements within society, and then like I just have like a general interest in philosophy.
It's like my my undergraduate degree.
So upon reading and looking at some of the philosophy within the Frankfurt School and a lot of their writings about like irrational cultures and irrational society and its connection with fascism, I just noticed like a very distinct similarity in this sort of predictive power of a lot of the writings in relation to QAnon.
How is it possible that a far-right movement can be, like, so bizarre as something like QAnon is, and so connected to, like, weird conspiracy culture as well?
And I think that, yeah, it's a very perfect connection.
QAnon Astrology.
The Storm.
Down to Earth.
Upon a cursory glance, one would probably say that QAnon, The Avengers, Nazi propaganda, and astrology would have nothing in common.
What this cursory glance doesn't account for is the writings of two important members of the influential German critical philosophical school of thought known as the Frankfurt School.
These two writers are Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
Who are two German Jews that would begin collaborating in the interwar period upon meeting each other at the Gotha University Frankfurt.
After the Nazi Party took power in 1933, they both lost their professorship titles in Germany and eventually fled to America.
Much of Adorno and Horkheimer's work following this period came to be an attempt to reconcile how it was possible for Nazism and other authoritarian, irrational movements to become so widespread and successful following the period of the Enlightenment.
Enlightenment, to greatly simplify things, was a movement started in the 18th or so century that encompassed Western philosophy that attempted to uplift humanity from irrational, mystical beliefs such as the divine right of kings, and towards a culture and style of governance that
emphasized humanity's rationality.
And millions of Travis views rejoiced in the streets upon that day.
Finally, some inroads into the culture.
Finally, rationalism would have its hour.
Little did the descendants of Travis, of those Travis know how far they would fall.
There's that meme of, like, you know, women going back in a time machine.
It's like, you know, oh, you're my grandma.
It's like men going back and it's telling Immanuel Kant, like, you know, stop.
There's something fundamentally wrong with the Enlightenment.
Yeah, we should not be drawing these buildings in perfect perspective.
It is going to end Western civilization.
During their period of exile from Germany from 1933 until the end of the Nazi Reich, their writing was concerned with this primary question of how the Enlightenment has failed, and for a period of time, especially during the Nazis' furthest territorial expansion in 1942, such a brutal, authoritarian, and anti-rational ideology could become so powerful.
What are the main causes for this?
As written in their arguably most important work within their exile, Dialectic of Enlightenment, is the use of technology as a tool to make people docile and passive.
This is essentially the product of technological ingenuity, which comes from capitalism, industrialization, and the Enlightenment.
So, you know, developments of technology like radio, TV, magazine, etc.
What is so interesting about the works created by these social theorists, especially as it relates to something like QAnon, is that they are two exiled German Jews that are attempting to make sense of what the social causes for fascism and the Holocaust are, primarily by analyzing American popular culture.
This mass-produced popular culture, for them, is one of the primary causes for leading a population to passively receive fascist propaganda uncritically.
When we think of a far-right movement like QAnon, which is angled towards indoctrinating impressionable people into an irrational cult that pledges allegiance to Trump, the military, and the police, among other things, it makes perfect sense for this movement to be infested with pop culture references.
So, for instance, in the 1996 movie White Squall, an adventure-slash-drama coming-of-age film about teenage boys who learn camaraderie and discipline by surviving together on a sailing trip gone wrong, I mean, it is hilarious.
Ah, the bareback boys are sunk at sea again!
I remember when that shit came out in the theaters, too.
I remember it made a little bit of a cultural splash.
I can't remember if I saw it.
Well, yeah, they dumped enough young children overboard to make one!
I was negative two when it came out, so I'm only seeing this as references after it.
Yeah, it's a QAnon movie for you.
It should go back in the time capsule.
Yes, we should put it back in.
It'd be funny to watch it now and think that it has such an important grasp on the QAnon ethos, though.
That would be a good watch.
Oh yeah, we haven't done White Squad Movie Night!
That'll be...
Maybe we'll do that next week.
Yeah, maybe Livel has to come back.
Next week we have our premium, you little bastard.
Don't you try to step on my toes.
Hey, I just work here, man.
Oh yeah, these boys deal with the challenges of survival set within the film through a
rallying cry that is likely familiar to any listeners of the QA podcast.
The ship beneath you is not a toy.
And sailing's not a game.
So why the hell do it?
Bill's character, Mr. Preston.
Of which you are in desperately short supply.
They came from different places.
And this Ocean Academy isn't recognized as accredited.
It'll be a good thing, Dad.
They sailed for different reasons.
I don't wanna be what I was when I left.
There you go.
Anonymous.
But there was only one way.
We'll do it together.
I can't climb!
To survive on his ship.
I will challenge them and they will come together.
Become a team.
When we go one, we go all.
Because where he was taking them What are they doing?
Claiming their place in the world.
Could not be measured in miles.
I can't believe that's the real trailer too and not like a cut that like we made.
Oh yeah, totally.
And you can see in like the comments it's all just like, you know, where we go when we go all, you know, hashtag QAnon, hashtag Trump, you know, etc.
Yeah, which must rule for the person who uploaded this on August 15, 2010.
What is going on here?
I mean, for all we know, maybe they're a QAnon, or maybe they're really interested in the film.
Yeah, if that final line sounds familiar, it is, of course.
Because it's not simply the rallying cry for a few fictional teenage boys stranded in the ocean, but would also become the rallying cry for QAnon.
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