How pseudoscientific ideas about food and medicine have helped to devalue science, reason, and all things Western
Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
President of The New Enlightenment Project
Lloyd is a registered doctoral psychologist with competencies in counselling psychology, educational psychology (including ability assessments) and human resource development. He also has also published on residential school syndrome, the structure of the aboriginal self, the application of memes to self-understanding, the evolution of spirituality and religion, prior learning assessment and recognition, the treatment of suicide ideation and attention deficit disorder.
This article traces the contribution of New Age foodism and “alternative” medicine to a political movement that devalues science, reason and all things “Western”. It’s unlikely that anyone consciously combined the disparate pieces of antagonistic philosophies into a new proto-religion that was then marketed. I argue that this new proto-religion, sometimes referred to as Wokism, is likely a product of cultural evolution whereby random units of culture that Richard Dawkins (1976, 1982) called “memes” combined with other units that could then be copied from brain to brain forming a kind of mind virus (Robertson, 2021). In this article, I argue that New Ageism has played an understudied role in its incubation. The full article can be found here: How pseudoscientific ideas about food and medicine have helped to devalue science, reason, and all things Western (humanisticallyspeaking.org)
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