How Conspiracy, Politics, Social Media and Dead Babies Compete For Your Eyeballs
How we love the horrible.
Have you ever noticed how effectively anything morbid, sensational, and often horrible, will demand your clicking attention? The ‘dead babies’ phenomenon is an excellent example.
It is not new, and it is horrible, but the truth is that it works very well.
Last week supporters of Q-anon stormed our nation’s capital. While many were there for various reasons, one that is inescapable — and cost Ashli Babbitt her life — is the specter of dead babies.
Like many of us, most Q-anon devotees, are solidly against the idea of murdered babies. Especially, if they are murdered for satanic, ritual sacrifice, collection of their adrenochrome — a reported fountain of youth elixir extracted from human blood — an attempt to gain power, human trafficking, or for the purpose of disposing of one’s enemies.
The exploitation of our human fear of baby murder is very common. It has been around for thousands of years. We also find it in lopsided debates about a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and family planning. Many people believe that abortion is the murder of a human baby. Many people even believe that contraception is baby murder.
