A reflection: Qanon as a scaleable, decentralized public intelligence agency The formal spec for an intelligence agency includes a subset of the following: Command Control Communication Computers  Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance In the defense industry, this full set of capabilities is known as C4ISR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4ISR  Using this set of capabilities all together, one can architect a framework for a group of people to cooperatively plan, operate, and execute missions, as well as collect, process, and make decisions upon information.  Using message boards and various social media forums, Qanons have replicated a very basic, thin layer of capabilities that map onto C4ISR. Q, with a volunteer army of Bakers, large social media accounts, and social media forums provide C4. Anons, participating in threads, gathering crumbs from the public domain, piecing together puzzles, provide ISR. Meme makers and spreaders serve as a light-weight news service, distributing intel from Q to the broader public, a critical function of a free and democratic society that the news media (if it were honest) should provide. We are the news, now. More than we know, we actually are digital soldiers. Operating in a brave new theatre of war: total information warfare. There is an enemy that has made itself known by its weaponization of media against the minds of entire populations, and it does not discriminate between combatants, civilians, men, women, or children. They are engaging in global "fourth generation warfare": the battle for the heart and mind of the individual in society.  When a nation state is attacked by a foreign (or domestic) aggressor in an information war, its intelligence agencies are supposed to respond to the threat with their C4ISR capabilities to monitor the threat, form a plan, execute the plan, and constantly gather information and adapt. What happens when these default lines of defense have been partially compromised by the enemy? What happens when the news no longer serves as actionable intelligence reporting to the civilian population? Everyone feels the information war nowadays, although the words we use to express it vary: some feel it in their soul as a spiritual warfare, some see it in the news as a monolithic propaganda campaign, some sense it by the insane behavior of the general public around them.  The reason Q's message has resonated with the entirety of modern western civilization is precisely because -- deep down -- we all know that this movement is the last Wall standing as a defense against Their ruthless campaign to turn man into a beast, a machine, a cog. Q is a uniting force for those of us left who see an alternative, noble future for humanity. Q rallies together those who choose to preserve the light.  I will leave you with a brief clip from my favorite film, made in 1981, that I believe predicted our current predicament accurately: The Conspiracy Scene - My Dinner with Andre Truth will prevail.