We take a trip to China to uncover the origins of the Falun Gong, the contradictions between superstition and science, rural ear reading, levitation, and Qigong fever.

Copy pasting a fantastic comment from the reddit thread.

I tried to explain to my mom why I don't want to go to Shen Yun with her the next time I visited but she agreed with all their insane ideas about evolution being a lie and science being a communist plot. Luckily she thinks yoga is also sacrilegious so explaining Qigong finally got her to turn on it.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    like the chapos said in the recent episode on Harlan Crow in far clearer terms than I can remember, reactionary art aspires to a flat representation of its subject that doesn't evoke more than familiar recognition. "hotel art"