You've Got To Get Really Smart To Get Really Confused

This seems to be the general consensus:

  99 per cent of people are idiots,…but who are the idiots? I didn’t mean so-called poor, uneducated, ordinary people. If anything, most of the idiots that I know are academics.

That same guy wrote of NewAge infiltrating business years ago,...

 

The Wrong People, The Wrong Time: We're Not Supposed To Be Here (And That's The Truth)

Here is the evidence of what we've been saying, for years, about homeopathy and cultism. It's been up, in this post, for over 48 hours.

Depressingly, only 7 people - out of thousands - have actually looked at it.

So we've got a question:

If you're not clicking the links provided, what do you geniuses use the internet for?


We went to two business offices yesterday. In the first was a notice on a door, inviting the employees to a health insurance scam promoting the "spiritual aspects of health".

In the second, laying on tables in the lobby, were magazines promoting the Yoga cult.

Considering that, is it any wonder why Slavoj Žižek said "New Age 'Asiatic' thought ... is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism"?

Is it any wonder, also, why global capitalism is doing so badly?

Hey, Champ - cheer up - here's some News You Can Use:

Men don't exist to serve women's desires.

Please make a note of it.

And finally, according to cult leader Arianna Huffington, conservative satirist P.J. O'Rourke single-handedly dismantled she and New York Times columnist David Brooks in a debate. We watched and she was right. (We stopped watching about half way through, merely because we couldn't take Zsa-Zsa's Greek-accented gerbalism any longer.)

Shouldn't AOL be wondering why it would give such an idiot a dime? Shouldn't the public be wondering why it reads and trusts The New York Times?

Wait - answering either of those questions would require thoughts and feelings beyond the superficial.

Nevermind.

And Not Posting Critics Is Part Of The Problem

Where to begin? Where to begin? Hey - let's begin with Glenn Reynolds because, as much as we love him and the service he provides, he can be a royal jackass. Like, for instance, reacting to the news that "In The Worst Economy Ever, People Are Quitting Their Jobs With Nothing Else Lined Up," Big Brains over there comes back with:

It’s not unemployment, it’s funemployment!

Really, Glenn? Really? That's what it's all about?

Considering Slavoj Žižek, in his article "From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism", pointed out - all the way back in 2001 - that:

New Age "Asiatic" thought,...is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism.

Is it possible - just possible - that under this Maharishi-inspired brainwashing regime, the problem is really "management is so freaking ass-backwards awful I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than return to that place"?

Is that even a remote possibility, Professor?

That the people running things - you know, those guys at your level - are such useful idiots we'd rather take our chances utilizing the law of the jungle? And, if so, tell us this:

What's "fun" about that?

Seriously, if anybody wants an analogy that really works, how about saying the average office environment can be about as dispiriting as reading Glenn Reynolds telling us why people don't want to go back there!

At least that jibes with how it looks from down here. Shit, even Barack Obama don't listen to anybody but himself. It's all deafness, starting at the top, and shit rolling downhill:

Psychic Abilities (Not Just For Psychics Anymore)

2001: Slavoj Žižek announces:

"New Age 'Asiatic' thought ... is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism."

2010: Word gets out the financial giant Goldman Sachs is embarking on a "spiritual journey" to find themselves as a company.

NewAgers Hate Real Men (And Love Bad Movies)

"The ultimate object of anxiety is a living father."

-- Slavoj Zizek - the man who exposed NewAge as the corporate ideology - during his new must-see analysis of film, “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema,” in The New York Times.

Bend That Knee (Get A Good Stretch) Bow All The Way Down - To Somebody - Or Something: And Never, Ever, Try To Stand Up On Your Own

"The rich, churchless, blue-state elites,...are hungry for the kind of secular nirvana Obama is serving up. Obama-mania is a political expression of the same impulse that underlies a broader movement, among the educated rich, towards a post-Christian spirituality, evident in such fetishes as yoga, feng-shui, investment-banker Buddhism, and tennis-set Sufism — the small-is-beautiful and green-is-good crazes.

A potent myth-maker, Obama is also a limited one. His New Age shamanism tells us less about where the country needs to go than about the spiritual emptiness of those among our elites who have been so quick to anoint him a new, secular messiah. The irony is that these same elites have used a draconian reading of the First Amendment to relegate the oldest and richest traditions of our spiritual culture to an obscure corner of the public square, a kind of refuse bin for slightly disreputable hand-me-downs from our benighted ancestors. They now look to the new swami to effect the miraculous regeneration of a spiritual waste land their own policies have helped to create."

— Michael Knox Beran, writing in the (conservative*) National Review Online

"The ultimate postmodern irony is today’s strange exchange between the West and the East. At the very moment when, at the level of “economic infrastructure,” Western technology and capitalism are triumphing worldwide, at the level of “ideological superstructure,” the Judeo-Christian legacy is threatened in the West itself by the onslaught of New Age “Asiatic” thought. Such Eastern wisdom, from “Western Buddhism” to Taoism, is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism. But while Western Buddhism presents itself as the remedy against the stress of capitalism’s dynamics—by allowing us to uncouple and retain some inner peace—it actually functions as the perfect ideological supplement."

- Slavoj Žižek, writing for (the liberal*) In These Times

* Right or Left, the view of Western NewAge belief as a waste of time and resources will not be denied. It's a dead-end for America. It's a dead-end for YOU. And it's a dead-end for our children. Stop it. Now. Demand real answers. From everyone. Beginning with Barack and Hillary. Here's a good question to start with:

"Who do you think you're fucking with?"

That's the American way.

This is an election year - now let's get serious,

CMC

P.S.

This was posted while listening to Dorothy Ashby's "Soul Vibrations":