Comment on History of Biodynamics
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 week agoIt’s funny how hippies becoming right wing extremist is a worldwide phenomena. Even without the Nazi influence late stage hippies always end up on the far right. Like in my country the face of the anti-covid movement is a stereotypical white boy hippie with dreds. Like the typical mistrust in the government hippies have creates a lot of overlap with the far-right hence why some hippies become right wing extremist.
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Having strong opinions about how people should behave that doesn’t align with everyone else’s is a natural path to authoritarianism, regardless of political alignment.
The best defence is accepting multiple ways to live, some hippies are open minded that way and I’d I expect them to be immune, but of course there’s always been the “oh you must not ever put unnatural chemicals in your body” or “we need to return to hunter gatherer dynamics which definitely existed in exactly the way I dream of” nutters, who are ripe for radicalising.