No argument there.īut there is another genesis story that tracks us back to an excellent science fiction novel that in its origins had nothing whatever to do with real world conspiracy or anti-Semitism. Brian Friedberg speaks of the “blood harvesting conspiracy,” and properly notes the resemblances to the medieval anti-Jewish blood libel. That has left a legacy in the QAnon idea that “harvesting” or “farming” must involve live child victims, who are subjected to dreadful suffering. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with the additional note that, in order to be effective, adrenochrome must be extracted from a living human body rather than a corpse. On the respectable side, Aldous Huxley wrote about the drug in Doors of Perception, and in 1971, it featured in Hunter S. In one lurid variation, Hollywood stars harvest the chemical adrenochrome from children’s bodies.” If you follow that adrenochrome thing, it will take you down multiple rabbit-holes, and not the ones that attract the better class of rabbit. As a Wired story noted earlier this year, “Its core premise is that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against a cabal of celebrities and Democratic politicians who abuse children in Satanic rituals. Last time I wrote about QAnon, the online-based conspiracy theory that has gained such traction since 2017.
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