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People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…
In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.
Naomi Klein talks about this in Doppelgänger, and it’s really interesting. She argues, compellingly, that the yoga/spirituality/wellness types were never so much truly left-wing as they were counter to the medical establishment. Which wasn’t inherently harmful - yoga and meditation are good, and modern medicine doesn’t solve every problem. But then COVID came along, and it stripped away all the control these people felt they had over their health. And then it became revealed that they were never so much far-left as they were far out.
the current yoga is a white womans assumption that they can connect witht he universe, its basically co-opted from the religion from india, which is a different thing and turned into a huge industry for targeting mostly woman of a certain demographic.
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Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”
Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.
I remember seeing a doTERRA ad some hon had put up at a Mexican restaurant. In English it said normal stuff about how aromatherapy helps with mood, maybe a vaguely defined “energy levels” but no legally defined health claims. En español it was literally claiming that the doTERRA oils could cure cancer!
Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there’s a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about “National Socialism and extremist right groups today” on their page about Esotericism.
This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.
My mom died last year because she thought she could treat her cancer by “resonating with the world’s vibration.” Fuck this woman, and fuck the people who decided to put her in charge of healthcare.
Same thing here. Grandmother and uncle (early 40s) Blake, you died nearly two years ago now. The herbs and vitamin C were never going to save you. Cindy, not even a year yet. I can feel nothing but sadness and sorrow for the way they were decieved.
certain demographics are very into the cult of homeopathy and naturopathy, and pseudoscience. its usually woman in thier mid 40s, and midwesterners. Chronic lyme is one, i once ventured into communities across various site. they all have undiagnosed mental illnesses, delusional parasitosis(they deny they have it).
they were taking supplements and antibiotics to the point of causing serious symptoms unrelated to the actual infection.
We are all going to die lmao
but we’re gonna come back as flowers, maaaan 🌸🌺💐
Somewhere, deep down, a hippie is turning in their grave.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
I think the hippies are very very high
RIP everyone in America with a networth under 88 million.
Well if only they could stop polluting the world so we can get some of that clean living.
The lockdowns and subsequent vaccine drama turned a huge amount of previously assumed “liberal” new-age dumbasses into full-throated right-wing dumbasses. It was surprising to watch at first, but it makes sense when you think about it.
Is it because there’s a whole ton of people who are simply selfish?
No?
It’s basically just anti-academic.
If you can just invent arcane knowledge that only you know then you’re smarter than everyone and can do anything you like.
That makes more sense than what I was thinking before
So selfish.
Basically the whole contingent is anti-authority, and con’s were able to capitalize on that by feeding the pushback against vaccines and masks.
I believe you, but I don’t understand how. mRNA vaccines are basically magic.
*sufficiently advanced technology
thats the same.
No it isn’t one has me using the blood of my enemies to paint runes for good luck on my jacket. The other requires math.
i was refering to the saying that any sufficiently advanced type of technology might as well be magic- something along the lines, i forgot.
I know but… Math…
i watched some yotubers turned to rabid magats, after all the vaccine drama+ some controversy that kickstarted it all from thier declining channel, they couldve connected with alot of POC in the community, im guess thier true colors of sucking off trump and musk was thier true value.
I’ll let my transplant team know it wasn’t new lungs I needed, and three people’s worth of blood and six months in ICU and three weeks on ECMO, it was just light I was lacking… silly me!
I’ve heard if you expose your perineum to the sun, it maximizes the benefit (and your odds of ass cancer).
Like they always said: Just get more sun! Touch grass! Its easy!
This isnt surprising at all to me. There is a woman in my city who is a massive MAGA chud that runs a New Age store and claims she’s a medium and clairvoyant. She thinks she’s a pillar of the community but even her own kids say she’s full of shit.
What the fuck…
So this lady is just looking for a bigger, better vibrator? Might solve a few problems…
Hole widening therapy, now for MAGA communists, MAGA yoga enjoyers, and MAGA commanders wives (If you watched Handmaids Tale, you’ll know).
Mass suicide pact when?
Let them proceed
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So who’s gonna propose we bring back leeching and lobotomies first, this lady or captain brain worm?
The worm does the lobotomy
is she talking about global warming and people fucking up the nature? Isn’t that like extremely woke?
It’s woke until she gets to the “solution”.
Yes, but this is nothing new. “Mysticism”, “esotericism”, “religion”, etc… have always been a tool of fascism.
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/02/everything-youve-been-told-is-a-lie-inside-the-wellness-to-facism-pipeline
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/fringe-left-alt-right-share-beliefs-white-power-movement/672454/
- https://thepangean.com/Rise-of-the-New-Age-Nazis
- https://spheresofinfluence.ca/strange-bedfellows-far-right-extremists-new-age-spiritualists-and-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/
- https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/5117-acid-fascism-past-and-present-ties-between-occultism-and-the-far-right
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Sounds pretty woke to me
