A lot of the mail that I've gotten over the last probably even like 20 years has been from young people. This is how people get sucked into ridiculous conspiracy theories or neo nazis sympathies, stuff like this. There's a sociologist, Michael Barcunar refers to it as stigmatized knowledge. So if you think about any of any of your sort of outsider ways of being ways of thinking about the world, it's always like, we know something that the mainstream normies who are asleep don't know. It gives us a mission in the world. It connects us to a group of people so that we have a sense of belonging.
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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