In my final class week of “REL 3076: Cults, World Religions, and Minority Religion”, we’re covering Satanic Panic elements. A slide says:
“In the 1980s, Satanic Panic on a national scale about child abuse in day care centers
In 2017, QAnon claimed a cabal of elites wanted to talk over the world and were sexually abusing and eating children
During Covid, in 2020, a proposed reset of the economy became known as “the Great Reset” and hijacked by
conspiracy theorists”
I’ve lived through the 1980s Satanic Panic, which was happening when I was a kid/teenager. The QAnon / Pizzagate phenomenon of 2017-ish era. The Great Reset COVID stuff of 2020.
One of the benefits of being a middle aged college student is remembering history that’s being taught, and knowing that an 18-22 year old in the class might have a vague recollection (of Great Reset), a fainter memory of QAnon (because they’d have been in elementary school) with the 1980s Satanic Panic as historical an event as the invention of the light bulb.
Papers include:
Cults of conspiracy and the (ongoing) Satanic Panic, Bethan Juliet Oake – Introducing the Satanic Cult Conspiracy
‘There is no QAnon’ – Cult accusations in contemporary American
political and online discourse – Susannah Crockford
and
listening to a podcast called “Episode 5: Fighting the Great Reset by Miss Information”
Episode 5: Fighting the Great … – Miss Information – Apple Podcasts
Should be an interesting week.
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