The Baby Boom's Biggest Accomplishment Is Feeding It's Women To Charlatans

"The scandals around sex, money, and power that have tainted gurus are not surprising, given the structural corruptibility of the role."

And women who are so stupid they'd suck a dick in a search for truth.

 

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The Toxic World of Self Help: Hustle Culture, Toxic Positivity, Addiction, and Fake Gurus

 

        

 The Dark World of New Age Gurus

Actual Words From An "Enlightened Master" (Fools Will Actually Pay For)

It's Now Official: My Ex-Wife's NewAge Obsession Finally Made It To Congress

Sure, Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene 'openly cheated' on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym, but it's not like there's anything WEIRD going on. 

Everyone's assured me of that - for years.

 

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From A Problem With Science And Metaphysics (To A Solution With Frank Zappa)

I'm always wondering, how is it that - in this "modern" high tech world - something can be known on one side of the planet, that NewAgers aren't aware of on the other? A problem with our satellites? For instance, here's a message from Yurp:

"Apparently, in Canada, osteopathy is strong and full of woo..."

Now, we know it surely can't be a language barrier, because this professor is in Germany, which is right next door to France - where they speak that silly oui-oui, pooh-pooh, lah-lah French - but, the Gauls are just as coo-coo-clueless as the Canadians, so what gives? How are these two nations, so renowned for their educations, modernity, and civility, not so renowned for being in-step with reality?

But, this speaks to how the whole NewAge phenomena is working, all over the world: how do some immediately know fraud when we see it, while many (if not most) NewAgers buy into whatever false "empowerment" (or whatever message) the cultists sell? And - if some people do and can spot it - why aren't they trusted? 

I think it's because, like everyone else, the NewAger's desire for power (whether over themselves, over rationalists, or the world) is stronger - and, they have more money than common sense to indulge it, so bad things happen (Which, of course, is why they shouldn't have power: they've already proven they can't handle it).

Whatever. Thinking about NewAgers makes the mind weary. So here's TMR's new answer to NewAge's problems - listen to Frank Zappa because none of it matters:

It really works. Better than any damned guru, I guarantee you. Big money bet.

Creep #1 Meet Creep #2 (And Both Of Y'all Prepare To Act Real Gullible In Court)

The story is, a creep in Australia, that I don't doubt isn't a "sleazebag guru" (who's "delusional, dishonest, a sexual predator and the leader of a 'socially harmful cult'") had a female acupuncturist as his client for some reason.

Now, I don't know about you, but, you should be able to stop reading right there, because that much tells you everything you need to know about how the dumb bitch ended up in what, you know, is a sexually predatory mess in the first place.

Happiness: No Guru, Healer, Life Coach, Or Motivational Speaker, Necessary

So Says The Crackhead (Very Few Will Ever Work With)

Get a group of people and build something? Inspiring.

I can't still vouch for *everything* I wrote in 2010, but this trailer for Mike Judge's new "Silicon Valley" DID remind me of bits of advice I gave in TMR's Message To Millennials (Generation Y):

"Band together and ask yourselves: 

How much money do we collectively have, and what can we do, what can we create, what do we already have to use, to make more? 

…The computer industry was built on ideas - but also by burning the lights all night,..."

Malcolm knew:

Until Americans learn how to behave cooperatively, including maturely appreciating vision, leaders, and leadership - with no guru worship included - this nation will crawl, but it will never rise, once more,…

 

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Nailing It (de Tocqueville Came Here - I Went To France)

U.S. culture - everything framed in confrontation.

“In Sparta the freeman is more a freeman than anywhere else in the world, and the slave more a slave.”

Get all warm and fuzzy - Glenn Reynolds is on the case:

"RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Minority Democrat Campaign Staffers Paid Significantly Less Than Whites."

Applause - he sees it:

Democrat racists BAD. 

Republican racists? Haven't seen 'em.

"Kinda" cultish, right? 

"If the GOP is ‘a cult’, what are Obama’s followers?"

At this point - almost practical.

How about that Mitt Romney, huh? Making a comeback. You do know he marched with Martin Luther King, don't you?

  "Romney recently denied a basic Mormon doctrine and historical event that is essential to the foundation of Mormonism.  He stated the last time God spoke to a man directly was to Moses.  He did this to appeal to the Evangelicals.  Mormons understand this tactic as "milk before meat".   It is not lying, in their minds, if such misrepresentation improves the appearance of the Mormon church to the outsider.

Mitt Romney is demonstrating a common trait of Mormon apologists.  They will exaggerate or make wild claims without substantiation.  When caught on these statements, they will comment that the misunderstanding was due to how the information should of been interpreted.   In the case of marching with Martin Luther King, we should understand that he was speaking figuratively."

Fortunately, we despised men don't have to keep our stories straight.

"Temple Of Doom: The Mormon Hoax"

“At 'The Houston Cancer Quack,' Skeptics call on Congress to investigate Stanislaw Burzynski”

“The guru’s journey from healer to alleged predator.”

I hear the laughter:

"Look around you. We're all liars here. And every one of us is better than you."

Where is the Love?

Fraud - certainly does sum up the state of things, doesn't it? But listen to me - another poor soul with a victim mentality:

"In the rush to support [Duck Dynasy's Phil] Robertson for his beliefs about sexuality and sin, most conservative Christians seem to be ignoring [his racism]. Maybe they were too quickly swept up in the culture-war angle that dovetails with the community’s martyr complex. Or perhaps talking about the atrocities of the Jim Crow South reminds them that it was their theological forbears who perpetuated such injustices.

But what is the media’s excuse? Perhaps a civil-rights story doesn’t generate as many clicks as conversations about homosexuality. Regardless, it’s the story that is being overlooked in the Robertson ruckus, and it's the one we can’t afford to miss."

I's the same old story, is it not? The "utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist" tactics used to advance (or hide) a lie? We live under so many now it's merely a distraction to mention it. To mention them. Oh, whatever - I stole the "distraction" bit from somewhere else anyway.

The point is no one's truly free. Never has been. Few even have an appreciation for it. But I do.

"The NewAge Capital Does Not Have It's Priorities Right" 

 - TMR, December 9, 2013

"It is just as obvious as obvious can be. Even a five year-old could see that it's obvious. But that will not stop this line of argument (and our perhaps overly provocative headline) from enraging those who prefer to luxuriate in a bath of warm and fuzzy emotional validation, rather than to think about this simple fact: In a world of scarce resources and limitless need, it's just common sense (and common decency) to direct our charitable resources to those who need it the most. It is not moral to pour charity money into non-life-and-death causes when that money could be used to actually save human lives.

Though it is not considered polite to say it, the fact is that most of the charity money we give to less important causes represents money not given to more important causes, and that means fewer lives saved, simply due to our own whimsical preferences. That's not nice." 

 - Gawker, December 20, 2013

Debt is slavery? 

“African-Americans aren’t any more likely to get evicted or be late on a payment than whites, but you wouldn’t know it by how African-Americans are targeted by debt collectors. According to a new survey, African-Americans are much more likely to be targeted by debt collectors than their white counterparts.”

Shut-up, Crack? No, I don't think so:

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” 

- Aristotle

American culture is my culture:

“Bey-Z needs to up their game - and outlook - to Kanye levels:

That broke-jawed nigga thinks he rules, or should rule, the Pop world.

And American art, today, has had enough of pretenders,...” 

 - TMR, December 18, 2013

Viola!

“Music magazine Rolling Stone has recently named its "20 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2013" and Kanye West is the one who sits at throne with his experimental opus Yeezus.” 

- VladTV, Dec 20, 2013

It seems like a little thing but, I am an artist, looking at you all:

You've lost because culture is more powerful than politics,...

Gotta Have A Trial Because Nobody Knew It Was Wrong

Vanity Fair is keeping Hitchens' grand example alive:

“Bikram Yoga’s Embattled Founder: The Alleged Rapes and Sexual Harassment Claims Against Guru Bikram Choudhury”

And the NewAge crowd still has very low standards,...

 

New Day (Same Shit) II

I'm Russian (Out The Door)

"Though you haven't heard of it, there are some fundamentalist churches that encourage dating and marrying nonbelievers and trying to convert them."

"It's called 'missionary dating' and it's a real thing."

Opening a religion post with "Though you haven't heard of it,...." cracks me up. It's now the story of my life and - while Emily Yoffe may not have heard of it - feminist NewAge is definitely THE "fundamentalist church" where "fishing" has always been real, too, so ♪shut-up♬.

"The assumptions of homeopathy,…are in overt contradiction to those of acupuncture which, in turn, are out of sync with those of reflexology, aromatherapy and Reiki.

Instead, each branch of alternative medicine has its own axioms that are largely detached from reality or, indeed, from the axioms of other branches of alternative medicine."

As far as I know, whites will only really stand up to Oprah on two topics - cattle futures and race - when they curiously, but proudly, love to point out how rich she's gotten with their full support:

You know, selling dangerous, bogus, NewAge occult "remedies" and the gurus and beliefs that go with 'em,...

 

I Mean Making Simple Connections - Not Extravagant

It's been call it "the most spiritual place on Earth," and the mandatory travel destination for NewAgers looking for gurus since The Beatles, how's it going? 

  Thirty million people are slaves, half in India: survey 

 But even though "everything's connected," there's no connection,...