Topic: the shift is getting stronger
Take a look at http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1390332 The posts there are usually about weight training and girls and steroids and girls and bodybuilding contests... and girls. Now suddenly Atomic Dog sounds like someone on NR.
Lyra has often mentioned how, when she brought up some "woo-woo" idea her co-workers won't even think about the subject. I used to get the same response but recently it's changed. It used to be "I won't think about that, I'm changing the subject"; now it's "Ha ha, strange idea" or "I disagree". This is a _big_ cognitive shift, from refusing to allow the idea to exist to considering but disagreeing with it. A few folks are even open to the possibility of "alternative" concepts (usually negative conspiracies
but one step at a time). Is anyone else seeing this?