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    Bonus Sample: RFK Jr. and Deconstruction Ecstasy Syndrome

    Bonus Sample: RFK Jr. and Deconstruction Ecstasy Syndrome

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    Bonus Sample: RFK Jr. and Deconstruction Ecstasy Syndrome

    FromConspirituality

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    Length:
    18 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 30, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Matthew’s essay about the transient, disorganized, purificatory pleasure of RFK Jr's campaign for his wellness/yoga/biohacker demographic. 
    A workshop breakthrough is not a strategy. The pleasure of deconstruction is not a theory of change.
    With reference to Vincent Bevins’s brilliant new book: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
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    Released:
    Oct 30, 2023
    Format:
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    A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.