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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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      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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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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      What happened to all that holistic woo? It was enormous a decade ago, but seems to have simply dropped out of the culture. I’m sure you can still find it if you look, but it doesn’t have anything like the influence it did.

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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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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/ …

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        2. Brian Marick‏ @marick 9 Dec 2019
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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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        3. Keith Braithwaite‏ @keithb_b 9 Dec 2019
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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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        1. Adam Robbert‏ @AE_Robbert 9 Dec 2019
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          It moved to Instagram.

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        1. Jaybird‏ @OG_Jaybird 9 Dec 2019
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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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        1. Invulnerable Essential Public Servant‏ @TonklinD 9 Dec 2019
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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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        2. made of clay‏ @samvega_pasada 9 Dec 2019
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          It is still around, at least here in Toronto

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        3. J D Champion  🦆‏ @drjimchampion 9 Dec 2019
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          In England it has concentrated itself in a small Somerset town called Glastonbury.

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        1. Vasilios Billy Mavreas‏ @billy_mavreas 9 Dec 2019
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          check the internet. it's huge.

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        1. Tailor‏ @aTailaTheWun 9 Dec 2019
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          underground where it always is

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