I just want to know what has actually happened in the world so I can live in reality lol
what is falun gong, who runs it, who funds it, how has the CPC cracked down on it, etc
sifting through the google results is just maddening
pseudo-religious nativist movement associated with the 1990s rise in qigong practice & all of its associated self-reflective cultural & ethnocentric results.
a lot of this stuff resulted in some confusing "alternative lifestyle & medicine" kookiness that disrupts education & scientific understanding. so when this particular group was banned, (after initially being promoted by officials as healthy exercise & self-discipline) Falun Gong took a really hardline anti-CPC stance, and i think were picked up early on in "the West" as a group to promote.
they run the Shen Yun dance troupes that periodically tour metro areas in the West. It's an anti-communist cult. There's a part in the Shen Yun production where these ninjas with hammer & sickle designs on their tunics pop out and they try to make it seem like they're harvesting the poor apolitical Chinese flow arts practitioners' eyeballs.
There’s a part in the Shen Yun production where these ninjas with hammer & sickle designs on their tunics pop out
Vocel police!
You're probably thinking of the Epoch Times. It's effectively a front for the Falun Gong.
The weirdest thing is probably that the Falun Gong cult is super into qigong "magical" or supernatural abilities. Think jhanas, little parlor tricks you pick up on as you progress to enlightenment. The weird thing about that is, by all accounts, China was studying these abilities very intently for a long stretch in the twentieth century. If it's anything like the US programs, it's probable these studies continue today under different projects and names. That's pretty weird, but true enough.
Historical Psychokinetic Materialism with Idealist Characteristics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaPzJKycxc
this guy does good stuff.
they also straight up get support from the NED or whatever
You didnt need to watch 653 seconds of that to find THE GOTCHA he made his opinions clear from the start. Doesnt mean his info on falungong is bad JFC
"this guy does good stuff"
Explicitly advancing imperialist and anti-communist talking points isn't "good stuff". Even if he has a good critique of Falun Gong, you shouldn't be endorsing reactionaries.
they like em. Which is kinda one of the few things I that make me realized that china has problems I can't begin to understand. Cause while they have them as both sport and cultural resources they really don't seem to like MMA at all.
Here's a good rundown on Falun Gong : https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
