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It's not just religious conservatives. I hardly subscribe to "horseshoe theory" but there are similarities between religious conservatives and a particular sort
by overthemoon 7y ago
It's not just religious conservatives. I hardly subscribe to "horseshoe theory" but there are similarities between religious conservatives and a particular sort of anti-authority people on the left, and this is one of them. Both slices of the ideological spectrum include the rejection of authority, namely in this case either the state or liberal (as in Liberalism) scientific epistemology, or both. Post-modern hipsterism isn't quite the right term, but it's in the right vicinity IMO.
EDIT: Just remembered this: practically speaking, you can find this overlap in the snake oil ingredients sold by both Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's "wellness" company, and Alex Jones: https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop/ https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-lo...
- 0815test 7y agoYup, the "post-modern" part I actually meant quite literally in fact. It's a societal attitude that somewhat widespread these days, of rejecting modernity in some forms (such as with the medical technology of vaccination, wrt. anti-vax adherents) while accepting it unreservedly in many other ways (as with the rise of the Internet, and especially the myriad local groups and weird "tribes" fostered by online social media - certainly a novel way to build up social capital, compared to the churches of old!). It's not really about the ideological spectrum per se, in fact focusing on that is more confusing than anything else.