871: Julian Walker | How Conspiracy Theories Make Society Sick

Conspirituality co-author Julian Walker joins us to discuss how influencers have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia.

What We Discuss with Julian Walker:

• Why have so many wellness influencers gone off the conspiracy deep end since COVID began?
• What do these conspiracies have in common, and who benefits from their proliferation?
• How do otherwise reasonable people get sucked down conspiracy rabbit holes?
• How "The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics)" has synthesized into a hybrid system of belief dubbed "Conspirituality" by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas.
• Why a privately owned platform's refusal to host and perpetuate the views of disinformation peddlers isn't censorship or a violation of free speech.
• And much more...

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