Hi friends,
This is one of those Tangents where at every stage I had to fight the urge to upgrade the project to a main channel video essay. Maybe I still will! I read several books for this, and justified the amount of research time to myself on the grounds that it will likely all be relevant to future videos. Conspiracy theories, New Age spirituality/wellness—all of this is subject matter I've been wanting to cover for a long time and intend to cover further.
I came pretty close to reshooting this one because I had basically filmed 4.5 hours of rambling from an outline. But the end of the month was approaching, and fortunately I feel like I was able to sculpt it into something coherent in editing. There remain several little factual inaccuracies that I've tried to correct with text on the screen.
If I were to expand this into a main channel video I would probably want to avoid the word "fascism," which is a bit hyperbolic for some of what I'm covering. It totally applies of course to QAnon, or to what I'm calling "wellness eugenics." But I've tried to take a more balanced and sympathetic view to, for example, alternative medicine, where nuance is required and we shouldn't be recklessly throwing around accusations. I hope I made that clear in the video.
Anyway, enjoy, and let me know what you think!
-Natalie
P.S. Here's the video link, in case embedding doesn't work: https://youtu.be/HSzXeUkosBM?si=n2klqv-v7HBVxiyD