‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline
www.theguardian.com
One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?

This article describes a connection between wellness and self care and the extremist groups that we have seen pop up the last years.

I thought it was interesting to see how missing research for women is causing more people to see the mainstream as ‘wrong’ and looking for alternative truths.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of the most effective (and horrible) things the people behind Qanon did was find a way of collecting and brainwashing people from all sorts of sub-cultures under their umbrella of crapulence. Wellness nuts, western New Agers, evangelical Christians, traditional Catholics, survivalists, Falun Gong, conspiracy theorists (flat-earthers, ancient alien believers, anti-vaxxers, ‘plandemic’ believers, etc.), white supremacists, libertarians, anti-semites, the anti-gay movement, mothers who worry about sexual child abuse, anti-immigrant advocates… The list goes on and on.

    So many friendships and families have been destroyed by this crap. It’s heartbreaking.