The Night of … 1628
The Ides of Ayahuasca
I need a name for a demographic group that latches on to a fad or a cause, and has the disposable time and disposable income to dress up in costumes, post up on the highway and dance the electric slide and glue themselves to the fuel tanks of bulldozers.
Can you help me here?
It’s the same demographic group that followed the Jane Fonda workout in the 1980s and flocked to Zumba and hot yoga classes in this century. They travel to yoga retreats in exotic lands, bang on drums, wear beads in braided hair and drink ayahuasca in the jungle. They acquire PhDs in shamanism from Ivy League Universities, write books and host podcasts. They claim to be healers, (which they are, because we all are.)
This group rallies around, defends and enables people like Greta Thunberg. Worships the likes of Doreen Virtue & Bikram (hot yoga) Choudhury and dresses up in Red frocks and marches around like Druidic Zombies in the name of saving Mother Gaia. Their ilk has followed Marshall Applewhite straight to Hale Bopp & the Gates of Heaven and even Charles Manson.
So who is this demo and why are they so susceptible to so much Crazy?
Do they know something the rest of us don’t? They were the hippie chicks, the age of Aquarius, the soccer moms, the mini-van owners.
Today they are Karens, “Just Stop Oil” - “Extinction Rebellion.” and who knows what else?
All of this stuff, with the exception of Zumba, I only have remote experience with. Maybe I’m missing something.
There’s another thing I notice about this demographic, they don’t seem to achieve their goals. Maybe Just Stop Oil is still a work in progress. Doreen Virtue has renounced her association with the “New Age” movement. Zumba may still be a thing but the instructor I knew stopped teaching it, gained weight and is currently trying to lose it again. And the Heaven’s Gate cult? We’ll you know how that story goes. Bikram got sued and maybe even arrested and his name has been stripped from the practice he “created.” Now it’s just hot yoga. And speaking of Yoga… Christian Yoga … Laughing Yoga… what did I miss?
Oh yeah, Extinction Rebellion. Got news for yuh folks, Humanity is still marked for Death, so don’t get rid of your Red Robes and white face paint, just yet. Climate Change is still coming for You!
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