871: Julian Walker | How Conspiracy Theories Make Society Sick


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Aug 01 2023 92 mins   699 5 1

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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