I was going to make a joke about how philosophers pretend metaphysics is a serious subject, but if you go to your local bookstore you’ll find that it’s actually about holistic healing crystals. Then I realized there aren’t any bookstores anymore. Also, no healing crystals.
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Atheism was huge a decade ago and also vanished.
@slatestarcodex argues that it was replaced as a religion by Social Justice, which was a superior product for the same market. I suspect the same thing happened to holistic healing woo? Same demographic.https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Goop is regularly accused of being both influential and very woo-like. https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/smoky-quartz-bottle?taxon_id=1291&country=USA … That's all I know. Here in fly-over country, we stick to the traditional kinds of mystical woo, like that tax cuts always increase revenue.
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“Himalayan” “pink” salt lamps? [full disclosure: we have several, they are pretty]. That kind of woo seems to have been a Gen X thing. As we slide into irrelevancy the Millennials seem to favour…I have no idea. Hot yoga? Spin classes? All seems a bit mortification-of-the-flesh.
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It moved to Instagram.
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If you want something halfway between anti-vax and just doing what the doctor says, you're eventually going to notice that the healing crystals work even better when you get your flu shot first.
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i remember the public library had a lot of woo books when i was growing up in the 90s. now it has basically nothing i mean it has lost most of its stock anyway but winnowed down to almost nothing, just a few ghost things and the babblier kind of psychologisy
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It is still around, at least here in Toronto
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In England it has concentrated itself in a small Somerset town called Glastonbury.
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check the internet. it's huge.
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underground where it always is
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