As Sagan explained, collectively, talk of demons and belief in crystals are evidence - that society's already in Hell - or, at the very least, on the edge of a black hole before entering. He said the culture is getting totally stretched-out, as "we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." He totally predicted people, today, trying to fill a bucket full of holes with imaginary water. Literally, coming undone.
And, even worse, we can do nothing to stop it. In Hell, we're too smart for that. For instance, tell people that doing yoga 'for exercise' doesn't change the fact the practice itself is religious, and they don't care. NewAge arrogance, and ambivalence are doing the real stretching - but of society's fabric: They become more fanatical, rigid, and insist on the practice, never noticing the Modi government - that has been promoting yoga worldwide - is also doing the same: by all accounts, becoming more fascist by the day.
America's going through it, but all we talk about is how partisan everybody is now. In Hell. That's our bullshit: focussing almost exclusively on politics, as politicians encourage us to find a religion to guide our lives. No one asks what influence, say, Oprah has had over Obama. Like - except for the fact we're in Hell - how'd she win the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, after promoting The Secret, John of God, and making "America's Doctor" out of a quack named Oz? Aren't those NewAge "achievements" that could only win rewards in Hell, from a (formally-assumed) "Lightbringer"?
The best we can hope for, is that one step-forward, two steps-back, contradictory force of nature called "The Human Condition" to pull us out of all this. Like when Dave Chappelle, and a French Doctor, both notice "a cavity is not a vagina." That's a glitch in the Matrix. And thank goodness for them, because we need all the glitches we can get.
It’s kind of a trip to be the First Man Canceled™️, after I started criticizing the left - and especially the New Age movement - from all the way back in 1995.
Now, I get to watch everybody else going through it - the entire western world - except the new targets have money, publicists, a network of family and friends behind them to absorb the blow, the knowledge this has happened before, to famous comedians and other celebrities, and it’s happening to them publicly, in the media. I didn't have any of that. No one’s documented my odyssey, but me. The movement just worked me over, destroyed my life, and “moved on”.
Imagine losing your job, at a hospital of all places - or absolutely any argument - over astrology. Both have happened to me. And the latter, repeatedly. I’ve learned to stay away from those people. They're dangerous.
How about the 2012 “controversy” over the Mayan calendar? Seeing through that got me in hot water with a number of salesmen I worked with at a car dealership.
I repeat: I lost a debate with my friends over whether or not my wife can walk through walls.
This was all long before Greta Thunberg got a mural in San Francisco, but Tom Foremsky - an English friend I admired - gave me a book, called “Ishmael,” featuring a gorilla who talked about "saving the planet," to explain what I was getting wrong. I honestly still don't know what he meant by giving it to me,…when I was troubled that my wife was claiming she could walk through walls.
How different is the claim that someone can walk through walls to the claim there are 57 genders? Not much. Both are outrageous deceits and, in normal times, wouldn't be worthy of discussion. But, these are not normal times: this is the NewAge, and - for all the wrong-headed chatter about everything being “woke” - that's the one thing not being discussed. I see it in discussions of Steve Jobs: They talk about everything except the "popular" philosophy he used to kill himself.
They don't see it. They see "psychics" coming out of hiding - and doing a booming business. They see a bunch of someone’s into yoga - a Hindu religious ritual - and encouraging it everywhere they possibly can. They see Bill Clinton (Hillary's still married to a three-time rapist) got the ball rolling for questioning Medicine, and inviting-in quackery, when he made “alternative” medicine a thing, back-in-the-day. So now even water sits on pharmacy shelves. They can hear everyone screaming about vaccines, and even dragging RFK’s gravely-voice into the limelight.
But no one's talked about Jennny ("My son is my Science!") McCarthy and a spiritually-awakened Jim Carrey on Oprah. Or Robert de Niro's crack pot anti vaccine movie. And especially Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced quack (now living with Elle Macpherson) who got his medical degree taken away after getting this whole sick circus wound up.
They see everything - but a spiritual movement working around them.
But I see it. Like the people against reparations, the NewAge movement hopes to keep kicking the can down the road, until no one knows where it came from, or who’s responsible for what it’s done. But, I'm the man who dropped bread crumbs, all the way back to before the Harmonic Convergence. I still know how to unpeel this onion. I'm the First Man Canceled™️.
With supporting evidence, Harry Markopolos told the American government, five times, that he’d found a Ponzi scheme. That one man, Bernie Madoff, was still allowed to destroy thousands of lives (until his plot against the world collapsed under it’s own weight) should come as no surprise.
One man, John Carryrou, got a tip something was amiss, after thousands of reporters had already walked with Elizabeth Holmes through the halls of Theranos. She, too, was “on the path” to being allowed to destroy thousands of lives - before the weight of the Wall Street Journal fell on her.
Aaron Rodgers is one man, but thousands of others are now suspiciously quiet behind him - after destroying thousands of other lives - all around the world. People like Prince Charles, the future King of England, and a lifetime activist for (and now a patron of) homeopathy. Or France’s Boiron Corporation, which is actually the leader in "making" the stuff (since homeopathy is water, what do you imagine they “do” all day?) along with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Oz, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro and Robert Kennedy, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow - the list goes on. Will a “weight” fall on them - or will one man have to carry it alone?
This phenomena, known as homeopathy, has been around for 200 years. So, history says, we knew the answer to that question, before it was even asked.
Carrey and McCarthy should, at the very least, be tortured over the Hell they've unleashed - and journalism should be apologizing for Oprah's role in it - but, instead, everybody's fine. Just fine and dandy.
2008: Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, and Oprah Winfrey, uncritically - and without considering consequences - introduce middle America to the NewAge's anti-vaccine tropes.
"The anti-vaxx movement punches down and punches hard. Its leaders tend to be men and women from wealthy backgrounds. Andrew Wakefield, the son of a neurologist and former fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. Robert Kennedy Jr, son of the better man, Bobby Kennedy. Or they have religious power, most prominently Louis Farrakhan from the Nation of Islam."
Andrew Wakefield, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Louis Farrakhan - fine - but no Oprah Winfrey or Jenny McCarthy?
No Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey?
No Jim Carrey with Robert de Niro - and Robert Kennedy Jr?
No mention that Jim Carrey and Robert de Niro spent the entire Trump Administration viciously attacking the President at every opportunity - even both going on Saturday Night Live - as they were spreading misinformation the President was only being accused of.
No mention Andrew Wakefield now goes with Supermodel, Elle MacPherson, and what's up with that?
Hell, if the media don't care about the implications of Kamala Harris screwing Montel Williams, then they don't care about anything.
1998: Oprah Winfrey wins the #1 spot on Brian Dunning's list of the "Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience". Unsurprisingly, former-President Barack Obama didn't get the memo, even a decade-and-more later, when he was rewarding her for doing so, nor did he read these words:
The only person who can sit at the top of this pyramid is the one widely considered the most influential woman in the world and who promotes every pseudoscience: Oprah Winfrey. To her estimated total audience of 100 million, many of whom uncritically accept every word the world's wealthiest celebrity says, she promotes the paranormal, psychic powers, new age spiritualism, conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, past life regression, angels, ghosts, alternative therapies like acupuncture and homeopathy, anti-vaccination, detoxification, vitamin megadosing, and virtually everything that will distract a human being from making useful progress and informed decisions in life. Although much of what she promotes is not directly harmful, she offers no distinction between the two, leaving the gullible public increasingly and incrementally injured with virtually every episode.
When you have a giant audience, you have a giant responsibility. Maybe you don't want such a responsibility, in which case, fine, keep your mouth shut; or limit your performance to jokes or acting or whatever it is you do."
They're only saying "now" - and breathlessly - because of QAnon, which is, in part, the Antivaxx Movement that Oprah promoted in 2007 through Jenny McCarthy (at the time with SNL's "Joe Biden", Jim Carrey - and isn't THAT another *great* story no journalist can be bothered to follow-up on? How many walked through Theranos before one reporter at the Wall Street Journal saw the *obvious* fraud? Thousands, maybe? Plus celebrities,...like Bill Clinton,...).
Serious Question:
If pseudoscience had NOT "gone mainstream" starting back in the '80s, as Oprah Winfrey then began pumping it out, an hour or two a day, 5 days or more a week (when you include the seminars and retreats, etc.) for 30 years - who do the media think this is? President Donald Trump?
