Yeah, exactly.
There areas of alt medicine that offer useful and rich metaphor for healing, but people are so quick to take that stuff literally and run with it in such damaging ways.
That's how you get Marianne Williamson eugenics & Law of Attraction prosperity gospel.
There areas of alt medicine that offer useful and rich metaphor for healing, but people are so quick to take that stuff literally and run with it in such damaging ways.
That's how you get Marianne Williamson eugenics & Law of Attraction prosperity gospel.
https://twitter.com/Gibbermouth/status/1315373401956118528
And of course the people who find their way to alternative medicine are very often people who conventional medicine couldn't or didn't heal.
So they have reason to distrust science--even if their case was the the exception, not the rule-- and are often desperate and/or wounded.
So they have reason to distrust science--even if their case was the the exception, not the rule-- and are often desperate and/or wounded.
The metaphors that are useful psychologically as a way of exploring embodiment and/or trauma and/or relationship with illness still aren't going to cure cancer.
But folks are looking for that sort of promise.
And so the grifters move in.
But folks are looking for that sort of promise.
And so the grifters move in.
EXACTLY.
And in those spaces, there are often grifters already exploiting the departure from science/fact who have a vested interest in folks not thinking too hard about the power dynamics and underlying issues at play.
And the grifters enable.
And in those spaces, there are often grifters already exploiting the departure from science/fact who have a vested interest in folks not thinking too hard about the power dynamics and underlying issues at play.
And the grifters enable.
https://twitter.com/LuciferianDomin/status/1315404337301123073
We see it all the time in religion.
We're seeing it starkly in QAnon-infiltrated alternative wellness spaces now.
We've seen that dynamic with dirtbag "leftist" podcasters who are willing to spout misinformation and disinformation & whitewash fash into left spaces for profit.
We're seeing it starkly in QAnon-infiltrated alternative wellness spaces now.
We've seen that dynamic with dirtbag "leftist" podcasters who are willing to spout misinformation and disinformation & whitewash fash into left spaces for profit.
I don't think it's a coincidence that any time we see a space flooded with grifters, the fash follow closely behind.
They exist symbiotically, and in a time of disinformation where there's no consensus "truth," they're just thriving wildly all over the place.
They exist symbiotically, and in a time of disinformation where there's no consensus "truth," they're just thriving wildly all over the place.
*there are areas of
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