we've seen a woo/crunchy to fascist pipeline emerging clearly in the modern US in the last decade, especially driven by notions of 'purity' and 'nature'
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Yeah. The more intellectual end of it appeals directly to being anti-Enlightenment or claiming the Enlightenment disenchanted reality permanently and made joy limited. And that's in conversation with the prominent "service magicians" and Tiktok witches hexing the moon.
It was also part of the 1/6 insurrection. The only QAnon person I know in real life is my crunchy, hippie uncle who falls for every single kind of snake oil and currently won’t go to crowded spaces (and family weddings) because he certain that he will get sick from being around vaccinated people.
You could see a lot of this in the New Left in the 70's and 80's - the massive push to ban fertilizer exports to developing nations under the explicit goal of (1) forcing organic agriculture and (2) controlling population expansion through limiting food supplies.
Ehrlich openly advocated for India to be starved back into manageability, that entire vein of environmentalism was openly genocidal but in a way that made it acceptable at cocktail parties.
Yup, worries about overpopulation (always in the Third World, any worries about population limits here are strictly to be remedied by not letting any more brown people in) were always largely a way for nominal liberals to be racist in a socially acceptable way.
From the founder of the World Wildlife Fund wishing to be reincarnated as a virus that would reduce Earth's human population back below 1 billion, to the Bill Gates Foundation funding sterilization programs in Africa, there's long been a dark underbelly to that part of the Environmental movement.
No, I was referring to a program that gave free vasectomies to men in Africa, which I heard about in a Behind the Bastards podcast...which seems to have, since I listened to it when it first came out, been edited to add in a correction, removing that section. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV5d2_o1Gl0
Modern online-bro Fascists are often like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, dreaming of civilization ending so they can live out their Mad Max or Zombie-movie fantasies of a permanent hunting/camping trip with occasional bouts of looting, fighting, and rape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZMUGlFI_tg
An obsessive desire to enforce a "normality" with rigid categories on the world is bad. Natural/Unnatural, Male/Female, even Gay/Straight (no Bis allowed!) and, of course, the races are all examples, and of course that's based on Deep Knowledge They Don't Want You To Know, aka the Occult.
Occult Science aka Hatefacts in the modern parlance, or "facts" that the Woke don't want you to know because it Ruins The Narrative. Wave a Hatefact around and Trigger The Lib, thereby winning the argument. Is it an actual fact? Does it matter? Fascism loves pseudoscience.
There's some dark places you can go with rigidity of thinking plus unwarranted self-importance: You think you're entitled to the secrets of the universe without having to change anything about yourself or your ideas to get them or understand them. The world must conform to make me best!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV5d2_o1Gl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZMUGlFI_tg
"The Population Bomb"
15 years ago it was the Natural News to Fascism Pipeline.
90 years it was Leni Riefenstahl's man in nature films.