Bro, it's a development of clerical caps worn in the middle ages that Renaissance scholars started to wear because the clergy *were* the scholars. This is the anglosphere model but a lot of Europe uses something similar. It stuck around particularly in the anglosphere because, at one time, Britain and America both had enormous roman and Renaissance influence that most of the rest of Europe dropped.
I don't buy the correlation here
I don't buy the correlation here
These
(((they))) love to co-opt and corrupt our symbolism, like they did with the pentgram and have unsuccessfully tried to do with the upside-down cross.