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.

  • 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.