This is a brilliant discussion from QAA with Jesselyn Cook about her new book The Quiet Damage: QAnon And The Destruction. The opening section of the interview captures the distinct thesis which QAA have developed over recent years concerning the power of a community focusing their anger on a singular enemy (the other’s other as Zizek would put it), as well as the promise of retribution if only you sustain resolute solidarity in the face of the enemy:
It reminded me of this section from the end of Bourdieu’s Pascalian Meditations pg 226:
Below a certain level, on the other hand, aspirations burgeon, detached from reality and sometimes a little crazy, as if, when nothing was possible, everything became possible, as if all discourses about the future – prophecies, divinations, predications, millenarian announcements – had no other purpose than to fill what is no doubt one of the most painful of wants: the lack of a future.
Mark Carrigan 