Chapter 14: Conclusion: The Relational Life of Radicalisation

We began this book with a scene the world remembers: empty streets, daily death counts, and a collective emergency that could be measured. Alongside that visible crisis, we traced another kind of spread that moved quietly through homes and relationships. This was not a crisis of the body but a crisis of belief, a hidden pandemic whose signs appeared in arguments, silences, and the slow rearrangement of trust. Now, at the end of this journey, the metaphor still holds. By staying close to the SNCs’ lived experiences, we have seen how radicalisation unfolds when you stand beside it rather than above it. Through their accounts, QAnon’s spread appears not as an abstract ideology but as a relational crisis that reshaped meaning and belonging in everyday life.