The crunchy moms (mostly California based) who have assumed
an extreme approach to a natural lifestyle, and are quite vocal about their
views, have come under a lot of scrutiny and attack by those who interpret
their behaviors as risky and socially irresponsible. Extreme views, anti-science
positions, pseudoscience, counterculture behaviors are all fair game because they
are extreme and strident.
Haven’t we lived among the Amish and the Jehovah Witness
groups for decades? They are not
strident and imposing on us. The
crunchies are strident and have been for a while. They essentially banned
smoking, rightly or wrongly, from every indoor and outdoor location imaginable.
But many of their views on environment and libertarianism are usually supported
by main stream thinking. Not a reliance
on herd immunity. Not the immunization issue.
But imagine you have a family member with a birth defect
that all the experts cannot explain. You would grasp for every explanation large
and small. You might even embrace
conspiracy theories. It would be difficult to do nothing. I believe that the
origin of the strident crunchie views is a sad paranoia relating to things that
cannot (yet) be explained – things that had a profound emotional event in their
lives. I also believe that no manner of ridicule or teasing or scorn will
change their minds. Don’t pick on them.
Isolate them, but make sure they wash their hands.
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