Sally Kohn: I noticed the wellness people were like, it's big pharma. It's the health officials, you know, fauci, whatever. But other people had different sort of demons for this because the demons just took the shape of what they already didn't like. She says there is an overlap between conspiracism and dark arts such as black market yoga studios that have been shut down by "co-pilfers" The book Conspiritual This Are Not Wrong looks at how these ideas are being used to create a false sense of security in our society.
Conspirituality co-author Julian Walker joins us to discuss how influencers have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia.
What We Discuss with Julian Walker:
- Why have so many wellness influencers gone off the conspiracy deep end since COVID began?
- What do these conspiracies have in common, and who benefits from their proliferation?
- How do otherwise reasonable people get sucked down conspiracy rabbit holes?
- How "The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics)" has synthesized into a hybrid system of belief dubbed "Conspirituality" by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas.
- Why a privately owned platform's refusal to host and perpetuate the views of disinformation peddlers isn't censorship or a violation of free speech.
- And much more...
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