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People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…
In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.
Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there's a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about "National Socialism and extremist right groups today" on their page about Esotericism.
This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.
Naomi Klein talks about this in Doppelgänger, and it’s really interesting. She argues, compellingly, that the yoga/spirituality/wellness types were never so much truly left-wing as they were counter to the medical establishment. Which wasn’t inherently harmful - yoga and meditation are good, and modern medicine doesn’t solve every problem. But then COVID came along, and it stripped away all the control these people felt they had over their health. And then it became revealed that they were never so much far-left as they were far out.
the current yoga is a white womans assumption that they can connect witht he universe, its basically co-opted from the religion from india, which is a different thing and turned into a huge industry for targeting mostly woman of a certain demographic.
The herbal remedies / yoga / crystal gems people were always selling snake oil. No surprise that they'd get along with Trump. (Which is not to say all herbal remedies are worthless, but many are, and if you don't believe me, have fun getting scammed. And yoga can do a lot for your fitness, yes yes, we agree.)
Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”
Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.
I remember seeing a doTERRA ad some hon had put up at a Mexican restaurant. In English it said normal stuff about how aromatherapy helps with mood, maybe a vaguely defined "energy levels" but no legally defined health claims. En español it was literally claiming that the doTERRA oils could cure cancer!