We're Blaming Everything (But What's To Blame)

It doesn't seem to matter what kind of article we're reading about things going wrong, or being unfair, eventually the name of some NewAge icon or idea will pop up as the culprit, yet it's still a chore to get anyone to recognize it's the adoption of NewAge cult thinking, itself, that's screwing us. A case in point is Dominic Raab's article on feminism where he says this:

You can’t have it both ways. Either you believe in equality or you don’t. If you buy into the whole Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus theory of gender difference – with all its pseudo science - you can’t then complain about inequalities of outcome that flow both ways from those essentially sexist distinctions.

Very true, though we'd take issue with the mere claim of "pseudo science" and lay the blame where it should be - "spirituality" - specifically, NewAge.

Of course, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was written by "Dr." John Gray. What most don't know is "Dr." John Gray was the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's personal secretary for the Transcendental Meditation cult. (Not only that, but his Ph.D was from a California university that was shut down, and his undergraduate degrees - in the made-up "Science of Creative Intelligence" field - were from the Maharishi European Research University in Switzerland. In other words, totally bogus.) Considering Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was a major best-seller, how many have absorbed Gray's (and the Maharishi's) cultish, "sexist" thinking - "with all its pseudo science" - as their own?

And why has TIME Magazine featured the thoughts of Deepak Chopra? He's a Maharishi alum, too. Also - considering the Maharishi was a fraud - what has elevated Chopra to the role of an American spokesman, worthy of speaking on American television about topics as diverse as politics? Who, exactly, is he speaking for? What good has Chopra accomplished? Other than duping millions, what has he actually ever done? Does anyone care? Or, in the age of Bernie Madoff, is deceiving people considered an accomplishment in and of itself?

No one looking seriously at the subject can miss how the NewAge scam works:

The Huffington Post posts a column by Deepak Chopra, defending Oprah Winfrey's promotion of quackery, using celebrities Jenny McCarthy (above) and Suzanne Somers.

Or, put more accurately, a John-Rogers cult member (seen above) ran a bald-faced lie by a Maharishi cult member, defending a NewAge accolade's "crazy talk", using a (now debunked) anti-vaccinationist and natural cancer cure fraud.

Catching on yet?

As Dominic Raab pointed out with his "Dr." John Gray example, we now have the entirety of Western culture (and business) willingly, and wrong-headedly, following these scam artists and "mystical" frauds, destroying the fabric of our society - without ever questioning when these crooks (as TIME Magazine says) "jump to easy conclusions and,...spackle over problematic gaps and inconsistencies in the ideas". Why not? When was it a part of the American character to allow charlatans, and outright cultists, to operate amongst us unmolested - giving them power, and making them fortunes, beyond their wildest dreams to boot?

Oh yea, since we entered the NewAge.

Echoes Of NewAge

"I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting."

-- Megan Fox (not pictured above) saying what every NewAger really thinks - so don't blame her! - to The Daily Mail.

"The culture of 'no blame' divorce has become a sick joke."

-- Liz Smith, attempting to be as "non-judgemental" as ever, to The Daily Mail.

"Where did a chemist who apparently specializes in designing new molecules to be used in photodynamic therapy get such talent at throwing around quantum mechanical terms willy-nilly and applying it to the quackery known as homeopathy?"

-- Orac, noticing something weird about how NewAge "thinking" plays out in the world of science, for Respectful Insolence.

"Whether it is Professor John Gray hitting the bestseller list by deploying years of learning to tell us in 160 elegant pages that this whole Enlightenment business of believing in reason and progress was a bad thing, or the guys who want homeopathy and reiki on the NHS because conventional medicine doesn't cure the whole patient, there's an appetite for arguments that tell us that a reliance on the rational isn't reasonable."

-- Michael Gove, catching the flow - as it moves from the stomach to the mouth - for The Times Online.

"It remains unclear what motivates sufferers of Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy to harm their children,...or what benefit they derive from it. Perhaps it’s a means of gaining attention.

But what should we think when we see the same phenomenon on a much grander scale — when instead of a mother fabulizing symptoms or poisoning her child, an entire political class in power spouts nonsense about the state of a great nation’s economy and the causes for it, and then treats it with long-failed nostrums almost guaranteed to make the situation worse by any rational economic analysis?"

-- Rand Simberg, on what's happened now that America's elected this NewAge "Party Of Special Things To Do" - isn't this all so very special? - for Pajamas Media.

The Fool On The Hill

"He was sort of saying, 'Look, forget it! Be happy!' Fucking idiot."

- John Lennon (explaining Sexy Sadie's callous advice on how to handle the death of Brian Epstein, The Beatle's manager) as reported by David Jones - the last man to do an interview with the freak - in his article, "Lennon Was Right: The Giggling Guru Was A Shameless Old Fraud", in The Daily Mail

I just learned that John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women From Venus) was Sadie's personal secretary for almost a decade. Deepak Chopra, like so many others, was a follower as well.

It's like, no matter where you look, you can't escape the influence of this obviously selfish, uncaring, asshole,....fucking idiots.