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Yet, generally speaking, in the English-speaking world, this sort of stuff has historically been associated with the left, with the friends of Chesterton’s great frenemy George Bernard Shaw. Down through the generations, the left has been more associated with the Big 5 personality trait of “openness.” Shavian socialists drove George Orwell, a leftist with a rightist pro-chud personality, crazy, as Paul Laity notes:

“Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1936), draws towards it “with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and “that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”

1 posted on 02/12/2025 5:08:01 PM PST by Pelham
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Just more projection from the Left...


2 posted on 02/12/2025 5:18:18 PM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Pelham

WTH? None of this is true at all.🤣🤣🤣🤣


3 posted on 02/12/2025 5:19:36 PM PST by dforest
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this guy is an idiot


4 posted on 02/12/2025 5:20:29 PM PST by SendShaqtoIraq ( )
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This dude needs a break from that weed he’s smoking....


5 posted on 02/12/2025 5:25:33 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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“Outer-suburban Creeping Jesus” would be a great name for a thud rock band.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 5:33:34 PM PST by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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He might be right about this for all I know. What he says comes from the social circles he’s part of, but he makes the mistake of assuming “everyone” is into this. He said that several times. These may be trends among people who “count”, but I don’t see much of it as a member of the hoi polloi.


10 posted on 02/12/2025 5:39:48 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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“For example, Silicon Valley is into psychedelic drugs lately.”

Lately? In the early 80s a company I worked for chip designers was using LSD ‘to improve their circuit layouts and visualize novel approaches’.

Their ad campaign featured Alice in Wonderland.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 5:43:57 PM PST by null and void (I hoped it was the Bee but it’s California.)
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I think he missed the core of MAGA, which is truth and righteousness.


13 posted on 02/12/2025 5:45:29 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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Hitler blamed race poisons, others blame seed oils and microplastics.

And archeologists suggest that the use of pewter in drinking vessels hurt the health and mental capacity of well-to-do Romans. Sometimes these theories have something to them.
15 posted on 02/12/2025 5:59:59 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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They have a point here. There’s a disturbing trend in the bro movement (Rogan et al) where they adovcate the use of illegal or pschodelic drugs to be “enlightened”. Many of them are dabbling in the demonic realm.


23 posted on 02/12/2025 6:41:59 PM PST by DouglasKC
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This is an absolutely absurd article; the author doesn't know what he's talking about at all!

He's talking about Silicon Valley ( since WHEN ARE THOSE TYPES CONSERVATIVES? ), YOGA ( which has been around for a very long time and never really being popular with some ), astrology, paganism, (I doubt that you'll find many Trumpers involved in any form of THAT! ), etc.!

Science Fiction has also NEVER gone out of style; however, I don't think that many young adult Trumpers are into that now.

Old people talking about "poisons" in food? REALLY? How many "old" people are blaming that ( not even talking about the Chinese Flu shots! ) what ails them on that; especially conservatives? And Bobby Kennedy Jr. is something of a crackpot LEFTY, even though he is aboard the Trump Train.

28 posted on 02/12/2025 10:38:22 PM PST by nopardons
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This is coming from people who demand men be treated like women.


53 posted on 02/15/2025 12:51:46 PM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means Our Slush Fund.)
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