The New York Times' Judith Warner (author of the book, "Perfect Madness") wrote a column on Buddhism, meditation, and "mindfulness" where she confesses to many things we at TMR have been saying:Being part of a group that's bought into the current spiritual bullshit and laughs at thier own hypocrisy, instead of correcting it.
Being pretentious.
Being a tool of the SHAM (Self-Help and Actualization Movement).
Knowing David Foster Wallace killed himself by thinking like this.
Getting angry at her husband for pointing out she's become a silly "NewAge" person - with terrible taste in music (and being shallow enough to side with the silliness and bad taste against her devoted spouse - potential divorce material.)
Of "not being there at all" but foolishly claiming to actually "Be Here Now" - and thinking such self-imposed obliviousness has "charm".
Discovering she's actually been disconnecting from people - the exact opposite of what all this NewAge dribble claims.
Taking advice from people suffering from "depression and self-depletion" who "send,...silent good wishes to people all over the world who have problems exactly like my own." (I guess the rest of us don't matter or couldn't be of any help to anyone so troubled in the first place.)
We love this bullshit line: "I have no doubt that this meta-connectedness feels real, and indeed is real, in the abstract at least." Yea: in the abstract. Idiot talk of the highest order.
Another goody: "I’ve come lately to wonder whether meaningful bonds are well forged by the extreme solipsism that mindfulness practice often turns out to be." Right: solipsism will bring us together. Sure, dummy. Being wrong is a community organizing tool.
She acknowledges such people become evangelical in defense of their wrongness. The very thing they hypocritically hate Christians for.
Of course, selfishness, being self-absorbed - and boring - and inhuman.
Other than making her as ugly as all that, Judith Warner being a Buddhist is just the bee's knees.
And, now, multiply all that terrible nonsense by the millions - no billions - of selfish, pretentious, idiots believing in it, in our neighborhoods, college campuses, government, etc., and you start to get some scale of our problems.
Why does it seem, as the Boomers (who brought us this crap in it's modern guise) continue to assume the reigns of power, that we've "fallen and can't get up"?
This is why.
It's The March of the Lemmings - right over a cliff.
It's easy to "send good thoughts" to people all over the world and mistake yourself for Mother Teresa. It's so....messy....to actually interact with people who might not be as "enlightened" as you are, but simply want a ham sandwich.
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