And they've already taken root.
supposed to breathe a collective sigh of relief in 2021—at least when it came to extremist, radicalized thinking. Donald Trump was out of office. QAnon, that cult-like movement operating under the belief that a secret pedophile cabal runs the world, was losing steam. Vaccines were going to bring an end to the pandemic.
The growth of increasingly radical fringe beliefs will be fueled by a rising distrust in authority and expertise. This skepticism isn’t new—we have been primed by “fake news” headlines for a number of years. Next year, though, a potent ingredient will be added to the mix: the exhausting, continuing uncertainty surrounding theHistorically, cults have flourished in times of flux, when behavioral norms shift and stability is elusive.
This will continue to be the case. It’s difficult for the human mind to deal with uncertainty during the best of times. We crave certainty and hard numbers—not evolving knowledge and statistical caveats. And this is far from the best of times. “They are lying to us!” is the battle cry of conspiracy theorists. In 2022, this will grow in volume and lead to an explosion of extremist activity.
Already, we are seeing the nascent roots of what 2022 will look like—in the coalescing and increasingly radical voices of the, in the anti-mask protests we are seeing across the world, and in labeling governments like Australia’s “fascist” for subjecting their citizens to continued lockdowns. These are the seeds for an extremism that will be sticky, lasting, and difficult to uproot—tied, as it has become, to core personal identity.
Cult-like extremist movements appear to provide an antidote to the potent mixture of isolation, uncertainty, changing narratives, and fear we have experienced during the pandemic by offering a skewed form of safety, stability, and certainty, along with a cohort of people who are just like us, who believe us and believe in us.
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