Terry Gilliam Says 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' To Blame For Rise Of QAnon: "That's How F--king Stupid They Are"

Terry Gilliam Says 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' To Blame For Rise Of QAnon: "That's How F--king Stupid They Are"

According to Terry Gilliam, it was neither Donald Trump, nor Hillary Clinton, nor extreme disillusionment with the current state of the US government that bear responsibility for the birth of the QAnon conspiracy theory, but rather himself, as the extremely stupid conspiracy theory would not have sunk its claws into the American political zeitgeist were it not for his film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Terry …