"[Osho] gets off a little easy in that ["Wild, Wild Country"] documentary...partly because they're interviewing people who are still to some extent devoted."
"Does anyone think the cultists featured in, say, Netflix's "Wild, Wild Country" documentary, immediately stopped what they were doing, and melted back into society, behaving normally? Or, do you think these lovers of herd mentality kept trying to find new avenues - to holding power over others - in their personal and professional lives? And what do you think the result of that is?"
"It was a mistake for Democrats to not listen to the voters earlier and set up a process that would have gotten us in a position when we could've been more competitive. Ultimately, in retrospect, you can't defend what the Democratic Party did because we are stuck with a madman."
Actually doing something about thier failings will take much longer, because (as I've said many times) Democrats don't learn. So they don't admit wrong. So they don't apologize. They always prefer to "move on" from what they've done, in hopes that they can either A) outrun it, or B) compel the world to "move on," too.
"If I was a dictator, [NewAgers are] one of the first groups of people that I would eliminate."
How is it that I can start this blog in 1985, talking about the NewAge Movement and how much harm it's caused - not just to the world but to me personally: I've lost a marriage, family, friends, employment, you name it - but today, in 2025, saying NewAge is horrible has morphed into the punchline for a Bill Burr bit?
I'll tell you how: because I've put it all together and the Bill Burr's of the world haven't - and the fascists know it - so I, a black man, will catch hell for decades while Bill Burr doesn't, because Bill Burr's no threat. Consider, in his previous Saturday Night Live monologue, he said "white women" were who's responsible for the backlash to "woke":
"The way white women somehow hijacked the woke movement, generals around the world should be analyzing this....somehow, white women swung their Gucci-booted feet over the fence of oppression and stuck themselves at the front of the line."
Notice: he was analysing it, but (apparently) still hasn't put together those "white women" are NewAgers, putting themselves at the head of the line that's supposed to be for me, but using it to bury me, instead. Not only for noticing but saying something about it. It's truly remarkable.
Remarkable because, if you put Burr's observations with those of Norman Finkelstein, about all the trouble "woke" has been causing for minorities, then you can start to understand the authoritarian era were in, and not only how it got started but by who. It was the actions of NewAgers, already wrongly cancelling people like me, who brought us the authoritarianism of Donald Trump.
Conspiracy theorists are suggesting the CIA is using AI chat bots to keep Americans from analyzing things online, but why would that be necessary - or realistic - when the nation's already embraced a long-running religion that's been keeping Americans from thinking for the last 20 years, resulting in an American Civil Rights Movement that, today, is used to defend white South Africans?
And Joseph Goebbels would find the American government's almost-complete control - over the world's public - most impressive.
They'd all be able to see their influence on America, clearly, but America can't see anything. Not in our super-religious, militarized nation, that educates it's citizens so well a married man can think he's "Jesus" and yoga-promoter Jennifer Aniston is his "Queen," but nobody (beyond his wife who speaks, Oprah-like, of something "manifesting") can spot much is out of order, until he's ramming Aniston's gate with his car.
And it's not just us gone batty - or, rather, Blavatsky. In 2025, Helena could've been an editor for Britain's Daily Mail, approving headlines like this:
This is "news," People. As we, currently, starve Palestinians to death, instead of out-right murdering them. The world's lost its stomach for it. The Nazis, too - from top to bottom - found their own actions distasteful, when finally directly confronted with them. That's never stopped anybody from anything, then until now. The Third Reich's ultimate legacy - obviously - is we just keep marching on.
Speaking of things out of reach, have you noticed how long people have debated Palestine, without ever nailing anything down - beyond Trump & Co.insisting you better do what zionists (and other supposed "experts") tell you?
They do this to keep things confused, so doing things the way they (seem to have) always been done appears to be the only way forward.
America's government has made little-to-no effort whatsoever, even since Oct 7, to explain the history of zionism to America's citizens, as we're paying - literally - to uphold what most would probably think of as a caustic belief system.
"TMR hadn't heard too much out of One Taste, except when a friend in The City mentioned they were expanding the cult by offering orgies to homeless men. Our friend said all a stranger had to do was go to the One Taste center and say they had participated in the Yoga Tree's cult program, but wanted to go beyond those "teachings," and One Taste (a supposedly female-oriented cult) would allow men in - to fuck. The men would then be "handled" by a weird bearded guy who would decide who would pair with whom, but everyone, including the bearded guy, would be sucking up to a woman."
15 years later and they've learned nothing. This is why I don't write very much. What's the point? At this rate, most Americans will figure out Turkmenistan is a "Gateway to Hell" sometime around 2040. In the meantime, they'll keep blaming blacks, I'm sure. I told you:
I'm convinced it's all psychopathy, which may be in the eyes - either manic (think of the zionist's "Godmother of the Settlements") or Netanyahu-dead, like a fish.
Shane Gillis said the movie ['Sinners'] is like 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn' mixed with 'Django Unchained,' and admits he got "triggered" enough by the race stuff to consider correcting it's Irishhistory for the theatre he was in - but immediately thought against it - considering how they were only watching a vampire movie.
It looks like the word's out, that Kamala Harriswasn't doing everything she could to stop the genocide in Palestine, as AOC said. For a country that's fully wired, that's an incredible amount of lag-time, between when a lie is spoken and the truth is exposed.
We should work on that.
Speaking of lag-time, NewAge as a diluted form of Nazi fascism still hasn't sunk in very deeply, yet. Nobody tell Oprah. Let's see how long it takes for a "journalist" to catch on to her own self-deception.
Speaking of self-deception and forms of white supremacy, according to MSNBC, "MAGA world helps raise over $600,000 after woman hurls racist slur at a child in Minnesota," potentially saying a lot about "MAGA world" and how they handle free speech. But first, I'm curious about the woman in question, Shiloh Hendrix - who thinks she's been put in a dire situation - not that she made one for herself. She claimed "I called the kid out for what he was" after the 5-year old took a toy from her diaper bag:
So what would a white 5-year old have been?
So, speaking of self-deception, forms of white supremacy, and free speech in the United States today - for those of you keeping score at home - in Trump's America, you can raise money for calling kids "niggers," and we hate DEI (though the entire country is now a "safe space" and/or a "sanctuary city" for zionists) but any visitor who says anything against Israel can get kicked out of the country. Oh, and universities are also the playthings of Trump and rich zionists. And don't forget the rich South Africans running things, here now, raised under apartheid and acting like it.
It's all making MAGA's potential for "greatness" feel very elusive.
In my last post, I marveled that Trump wasn't drunk or high, and, last night, John Oliver did the same – see above. Watching Trump, a former Democrat, in that clip, also reminded me of so many previous conversations I've had with members of the party, over, say, the 2012 Mayan predictions of the apocalypse, whether or not Jenny McCarthy was a trusted source for information about vaccines; whether or not homeopathic concoctions are "medicine," or whether or not AI is "god-like," or even whether or not the people who insisted on these things ever defended those positions.
Those conversations, which - like Terry Moran - I never wanted to have, all went exactly like Trump's. And I present Oprah Winfrey's invitation, and appearance, at every Democratic Party Convention, as evidence those insane debates were just as real, instructive, and destructive, as the one just seen on ABC News. The Democrats want to forget about them, or wish we would, because that's how we got to this place: Americans, being as looney - and as intolerable in their lunacy - as Donald Trump.
BTW - if you want to know the difference between Trump's two administrations - as you can see above, after his first election win, Rachel Maddow assured viewers we're "not in Hell." But, here, at the start of his second administration, John Oliver just assured Terry Moran he not only made the trip "Downtown" but even got a personal tour.
Which should answer The Atlantic's question "Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?" pretty decisively. I mean, Trump was a "celebrity" before he was a "politician," so we're straddling the fence now, or combining the two, but - whatever you call it - Taylor Swift's Palestinian Genocide Tour definitely greased the wheels for America, finally, scraping the bottom of the cultural barrel. Somebody make a casserole. We've arrived.
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