In the early days of this blog, when blogging was the big new thing and every PA agency and media outlet was looking to jump on the bandwagon, someone representing Naomi Klein contacted me asking for some exposure for her latest book. I declined as I always do wen I am approached by these people. Probably just as well, Klein is as nutty as a nutty thing from Nutsville.
Tips for perfecting your downward-facing dog, aligning your chakras, and the dangers of life-saving vaccinations. These are the conversations Naomi Klein claims are taking places at classes in yoga studios on both sides of the Atlantic, which have turned into “hotbeds” for conspiracy theories.
The Canadian author and commentator, famed for her best-selling 1999 book No Logo, has turned her attention to the latest threat to public health: Fitness and wellbeing gurus.
Vaccination hesitation has seen a surge in recent years in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has posed an issue for decades.
Goof grief! So it was yoga that means we didn’t want the jibby jabby.
Klein has warned it is no longer the fringes of society that succumb to the dangerous, outlandish speculation spreading fear in developed Western economies.
Yeah, because we preferred to apply the scientific method to ‘the science’ rather than just accept what our betters told us, we are all conspiracy theorists. Frankly, if Klein told me that it gets dark at night, I’d just have to nip out and check for myself.
Klein writes in her book latest book Doppelganger that “this is where the white, wealthy, libertarian streak in the wellness industry can become lethal”.
Bollocks.
“So many of those fit and beautiful influencers stopped merely offering encouraging words to motivate our workouts and green juicing,” she writes, “and started whispering to us alarmingly about dark forces coming to poison us, and eventually to gag, jab and dominate us.”
The evidence does, indeed point in that direction. Klein is a charlatan. A peddler of the claptrap we are expected to believe without questioning for ourselves. Deranged gibberish.
But she writes movingly about how towns and cities have changed and the advance of the Woke Monster. But her low credibility barrier enables a lot of noise to ride alongside the good stuff.
Anyone who talks about the anti tax movement without making a clear distinction between safe, effective and well proven vaccinations and the ineffective and unproven Covid injections needs to be ignored.
I recently discovered that one of those Mozart pieces is really similar to one of Bach’s keyboard pieces. Not quite so close to say that he copied it but still quite close.
Yes auto correct strikes again and I didn’t notice until I’d clicked Post Comment, anti vax movement.
For a moment, I thought that ‘Jibby Jabby’ was a reference to Muslim attire.
Well to be fair, some of these people do waffle on about crystals, ley lines, 5G, and bilge of that nature. Some of them actually ARE bonkers.