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From Keto to Crazy and Crypto to Libertarian
There are so many pipelines to extremism.
Ah, the good old days, when we thought most of the people around us were somewhat normal.
Then social media came along and we quickly became witnesses to people’s uncensored, unfiltered thoughts about everything. And turns out, it was a really bad idea.
Soon, we began seeing some of the people we knew headed straight down a rabbit hole of increasingly unbelievable plots and strange inventions.
Here are some of the most common pipelines to crazy I’ve seen.
Yoga Studio to Antivaxxer
You know her, you’ve met her. Maybe you even went to yoga or carpooled with her.
You used to see her in her yoga pants all day, her skin always so shiny and luminous. It must be that vegan diet, you always thought, envious that she could afford to drink those green juices all day and seemingly never eat bread.
“Your health is all in your mind,” she used to say with a zen smile on her face. “Just meditate and remove stress from your life, and think yourself happy and healthy. Disease is all in your head.”
She always looked at your stomach when she said this, so you never knew if she actually meant “skinny”…
