The Cult Of NewAge: Now It's Scaring Old People (Which Certainly isn't In Any Of The Literature)

"As I come to the end of my life, there are four times as many registered astrologers in the United States as there are physicists and chemists. Four times as many. The wife of our sometime Prime Minister wears an amulet against 'space rays.' There is not a corner of our lives now that is not invented, invited, invaded by idiocy of irrational superstition, [such as] people who pay vast sums to have some fake Oriental arrange their furniture. Vast sums! The whole New Age -- this is a charlatan's age like never before. It makes the Middle Ages seem scientific in many ways. And all around me, in people I deeply respect, you scratch the surface and there is a frightened, profoundly superstitious person doing hidden gymnastics of the non-mind, in a way, trying to plan their fate, trying to escape from reality. And it frightens me a great deal, because reason is very fragile."

-- George Steiner, saying what so many wannabe super cool and with-it superstitious cowards (including politicians, celebrities, and so-called doctors and scientists) can't admit as we mysteriously go broke ("Vast sums!") and they continue to pay lip service to Burning Man or The Goddess or whatever, as members of the incredibly stupid Mystic Bourgeoisie.