The section before this was about the history of Yoga, and I feel the author just had a fucking seizure while watching Fox News, before continuing to write the book. agony-consuming

Like what.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    It's fairly common for people into chakras and crystals to also have a bunch of reactionary brain worms. My friends ex is a vegan whose really into yoga and organic food, also thinks the Holocaust was a hoax because she watched some YouTube videos on how there was exercise equipment at Auschwitz and most of the people died of cholera or something.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Every hippy crystal/astrology person in Tinder is a coin flip between fairly normal person who just happens to be into it and anti-vax, libertarian, white supremacist psycho.

      • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Which is nuts to me, 10 - 20 years 95% of those people were very left wing, or at least primitivist. Basically you can track what happened to JP Spears and see that writ large across western culture.

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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          9 months ago

          Which is nuts to me, 10 - 20 years 95% of those people were very left wing

          I'm not sure that's entirely true. There were reactionary spiritualists as far back as the 60s. I think that Yogi the Beatles were into became a sex pest AnCap.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          I had people who sent me that guys videos all the time several years back and there was definitely a point where his views starting seeping into what was supposedly tongue in cheek stuff. Dude also gets fucking acupuncture for his dog.

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      If you can be convinced about magic rocks and meditation super-powers, you can probably be easily convinced about all sorts of stupid shit.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        Yeah she basically has "So open minded it could fall out" syndrome. When they were still together I told my friend he needed to consider putting a parental lock on Youtube because the conspiracy videos were absolutely melting her brain.