As paleo diets and ancestral health and anti-vaxxer campaigns sweep the country, one gets the sense that a new form of primitivism is approaching, an emerging cult cleverly disguised behind the attractive mask of authenticity—or should I say, neoauthenticity.
One way or another you’ll know neoprimitivism has arrived when legitimate concern over technological excess finally gives way to a paranoid rejection of science. This is already happening, not just in America, but all over the…