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Far-right ideology is ripping through those groups again today as well.
by user-the-name 5y ago
Far-right ideology is ripping through those groups again today as well.
- zwkrt 5y agoIt makes sense to me. Natural health is enticing because it simplifies the problem of solving your health issues to adjust understanding how certain herbs, mushrooms, etc. affect the balance of your health. Real biology is incredibly complicated and full of unsatisfying answers. Natural health is full of sure answers (with dubious effects) Facism is exactly the same except instead of the health of the body it is about the health of the state.
- jcelerier 5y agoYep: http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/adornocc.html http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/adornocc.html
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoIf I recall, Adorno diagnoses it as the willful ignorance of seeing actual real world internal contradictions that is inherent in various "holistic" philosophies. Papering over conflict and disagreement with hand waving about oneness which actually masks an authoritarian imposition of unitary identity or aesthetic vision -- an ideology of "natural balance", which sees certain groups (Jews, socialist radicals, intellectuals, scientists, doctors, whatever) as disrupting this equilibrium. Obviously vaccine opposition is one of the penultimate forms of this.
- bitwize 5y agoI've seen natural health, antivax, and related woo gain currency among both the left and the right. If you're so radicalized as to distrust anything mainstream because it's mainstream, you are more likely to reject the medical establishment regardless of your ideological particulars.
- zwkrt 5y agoDon’t forget bitcoin!