What's It Mean To Be "Canceled" (In The Real World)?

I was going to do a post about how the 1990’s term “woke” is being used incorrectly in the NewAge, but thought it more informative to first mention what it means to be “canceled” by the movement. Many might be under the impression it just adds up to someone famous getting heckled. Or shouted down on Twitter (X). But, you don’t have to be famous. And, if you’re not, the consequences can go much, much farther, and cut much, much deeper, than anyone famous ever imagined. I've already mentioned one job I lost over astrology at a hospital, and another I had to walk away from (at a car dealership) over the 2012 Mayan calendar phenomena. How important is your job to you? Or, if they were just normal people - not rich and famous celebrities - I wonder how well Dave Chappelle would handle his wife leaving him for someone worse than Dr. Oz, and everybody being really, really excited about it? Walk with me:

We should've all had a good laugh at the idea Hillary Clinton thinks we miss her after she brought psychics in the White House. Or, as First Lady, established the fever-brained, post-60’s, modern day conception of a "vast" (non-existent) "conspiracy" in American politics, conveniently involving (wouldn’t you know it?) the American right-wing, and then Russia, just when she needs them. And - I have to mention it - she's married to a man who, three very good journalists confirmed, is a one-time but, may be a three-time, rapist. He also just happened to be the guy who established the fraud of “alternative” medicines (which got the whole anti-vaccine ball rolling….). I say all this, to submit to you, that - just like with the kinky Biden family or when Obama decided to campaign with Oprah and the media didn't say anything about Shirley MacLaine or fraud - in any “village” run by these strange people, and their supporters, there were, have been, are, and will be, the wrongly persecuted. That's what this combination came to in Nazi Germany, and that's what it means in the NewAge.

An aside: when the Clintons revealed themselves, Hillary and her husband were studying "The Theory of Everything" under the cult leader, Ken Wilber. He was with Marc Gafni, the former "spiritual advisor" to Whole Foods, who was later found to be a rapist of young girls. Ken Wilbur once explained that the reason why Marc Gafni raped was because he had a lot of "Shakthi". I assume Bill Clinton, too, must have a lot of "Shakti", as did their friends, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. But I digress - I can do that when pondering the NewAge "scene" - back to what it means to be "canceled" by these people:

If you're in a Democrat party stronghold, it means you're doomed. In case you didn't notice, Hillary's supporters got pretty torn-up about not winning the 2016 election. More torn-up than America has ever seen Americans ever get, over anyone losing an election. Nervous breakdown. And these people now surround you, for years, demanding you agree Russia hoaxes are real (without evidence), homeopathy is medicine (without evidence), and all Republicans are evil monsters who must be destroyed (without evidence). That's the NewAge mindset, and no one's going to dig too deeply, to ask why. You're just supposed to play along - or else. It's a recipe for conflict. I've seen Doctors who think spreading Trump hatred is just good bedside manners.

Take this photo of Yours Truly with Justine Gilcrease, at Justine's Brasserie in Austin, Texas. This was years before Donald Trump ever even thought of becoming president. Having known Justine since she was 16, she invited me to Austin for a visit, and wanted to document my arrival with a picture. Unbeknownst to me, by the time this was snapped, she had already told, what seemed like her entire staff - filled mostly with angry women - something I had no reason to tell anyone, beyond a close friend: 

I had left the Democrat party.

That was pretty much the beginning to the end of my friendship with Justine. I won't go into the details, but that visit was punctuated by unknown women, coming up to me and screeching about their reproductive rights, a dinner party argument over the efficacy of homeopathy for use on newborns, and sticking me with some psychotic black woman (who supposedly had stolen from the restaurant) for no other reason than I was the only other black person around on an outing. Oh, and I've been downgraded in Justine's eyes from a "great artist" she's known for decades to, apparently, less than an on-call DJ she can hardly bear to speak to. 

My point being: this is how Hillary supporters were acting before Trump. 

And the left have been ramping themselves up to complete insanity for quite a while: I lost one friend (whose business mentions his "Third Eye" in its title) for merely saying the name "Clinton" before 7 AM. Another over his insistence that Google's A.I. is now God-like (I wasn't given the option to disagree). I had to stop playing music with a fellow recording artist because he refused to refrain from talking about astrology. And, over the years, I'd also lost my wife to a homeopath (something that isn't supposed to be scientifically possible) a job with Hyatt Hotels over words being violence, and - as you can see illustrated above - my right to free speech, on Facebook, over my keen propensity for spreading smut. 

How is anyone supposed to live, much less work, walking on eggshells like this? That's what being canceled becomes. Tell me anything, listed above, that I could've known, beforehand, would've gotten anyone in trouble. Words are violence? Which words? Where are they posted? I'd never heard of a homeopath before my French wife ran away with the one who was treating her mother when she died. (Most of our friends thought she'd run away with a Doctor until France admitted he was a quack in 2019. Imagine losing a debate, with an entire French village, over whether their local physician is real - and you're right the whole time - but they get to dismiss and belittle you, in part because you're an American, and in part because your wife has run away with the fraud. Think of the implications. Think of the humiliation for all around. "It takes a village" to be a fool, too). I always assumed I could be in any political party I wanted.

Most people, including most Americans, know their "star sign" better than the three branches of government, so there goes any chance for a meaningful political conversation in a café, or the expectation for a reasonable anything, almost anywhere. Jimmy Dore now thinks it's brave to interview AIDS maven, Marianne Williamson, AKA Oprah's former "spiritual advisor", and a woman who translated the Bible for the NewAge movement. I'm horrified, coming right after Dr. Oz - the quack Oprah turned into "America's Doctor" - tried to gain power by running for the U.S. Senate. And that, after Oprah campaigned with Obama, which should've given everyone pause: Why was Obama, of all people, running with someone who said "The Secret" was science, and why was the media not acting like it? How did Obama give the U.S. Medal of Freedom - America's highest civilian honor -  to someone who would say such a thing? Asking will get you identified as someone who needs to be canceled. And asking Kamala Harris how she found herself dating Montel Williams will not only get you canceled, but might even get you killed: He's in the NewAge movement and a Marine.

You can't mention it was three years before we discovered Harvey Milk stole his election, after Hillary and the Democrats have demanded the benefit of the doubt, regarding their party and stolen elections. That can get you canceled. Pointing out Harvey Milk - also a Marine - was an early Jussie Smollett, who got bombs and blew up his own camera shop before blaming heterosexuals for it to gain sympathy for his political campaign, can also get you canceled. Exposing the fact Harvey Milk manipulated Jimmy Carter to help kidnap a child for the cult leader, Jim Jones, will also get you canceled. By Sean Penn, at least. Because that changes who Harvey Milk was, and thus, how U.S. history is unfolding, all the way up to the "Barbie" movie. And it's all a lie.

  

Basically, once the NewAge started demanding we live their lies, we could expect to be canceled. And my experience says,. on the ground-level, they'll get you in every way possible.

   

Final aside: You rarely hear the Jefferson Starship’s 1985 hit “We Built This City” in San Francisco anymore. Which is fitting, because A) that song has always sucked anal biscuits, and B) they probably no longer want to take responsibility for everybody dropping acid to chase white rabbits and mice and shit.

How Cults "Work" (They Blame Everything They're Guilty Of On Donald Trump)

 

In the '90s, the Democrat Party and the media were described as having cult-like qualities by the late Christopher Hitchens, then widely-acknowledged as one of the best minds in journalism (few reporters, today, are called that by anyone, so pay attention). He also described the Clinton's ability to make the Press shut-up and do as they're told. 

Has anything changed since then? Absolutely nothing. Has the Press decided to curb their enthusiasm for boot-licking Billary? No. If anything, the Democrats have burrowed deeper into the Clinton's pathological belief systems and behaviors. Their voters have demanded nothing different.

   

Also in the '90s, the Democrat Party and the media were despised for using "projection" by the late Andrew Breitbart, then widely-acknowledged as one of the best minds in journalism, after starting The Huffington Post. He also describes the left's ability to make the Press do as they're told. 

Has anything changed since then? Absolutely nothing. Has the left decided to curb their enthusiasm for projection? Not at all. If anything, the Democrats have burrowed deeper into the Clinton's pathological belief systems and behaviors (Her "vast rightwing conspiracy" after Bill went on his raping spree, for instance). Their voters have demanded nothing different.

   

 In the mid 2000s, Bill Clinton, let it slip at Davos that his cult leader, Ken Wilber, and his sinister Theory of Everything guides what they're doing to us, though Wilber operates with Marc Gafni - another rapist - associated with the scam occurring at Whole Foods.

Has anything changed since then? Absolutely nothing. Has the left decided to curb their enthusiasm for any of this? Not at all. If anything, the Democrats have burrowed deeper into the Clinton's pathological belief systems and behaviors (the NewAge Movement's cults are unending and the media - doing as they're told - doesn't care a bit). Their voters have demanded nothing different.

It's a proven fact that this sort of stuff goes right over the voter's heads.

 

NewAgers Never Knew America - Or Anything Else (And Don't Want To Now)

So Slate magazine - are these things still "magazines" if they only exist online? - says The America We Thought We Knew Is Gone, using "we" in much the same way Kurt Andersen does in "Fantasyland": as though we're all guilty of a little yoga, meditation, and whatnot, so must all accept the blame for the lunacy. Nope, sorry, Bud, this is just on y'all. (Especially those supposedly in control. Bill and Hillary and Jen and Brad, etc., all consulting crazy Ken Wilber (above) - Oprah Winfrey will believe anybody about any damned thing - I can't think of any Americans who've been less in control than these celebrities who've been dominating our lives throughout the latter half of the 20th Century.) You Thunderbirds were go, go, GO!

Trump haters understand "flyover country" in the same way they do the president, using the same amount of information, and in equal amounts, because (as we've seen with more-than-a-few journalists trudging in to see "normal Americans" since Trump won) they've deliberately had no real experience with any of this. Notice it's the America "We Thought We Knew" - not the real one - they're lamenting seeing go. The fantasy they've held that never existed. The real America's still here - filled with "deplorables" - and they still hate it. Get it? The fact the "good guys" *might not* be America's haters occurs to them much less than it does Mitchell & Webb's Nazi SS Men wondering if, maybe, they're "the baddies".

Slate's writer is someone named Lili Loopbourow, and she's upset "a reality-television star who lost the popular vote by millions" gets to do stuff. That's odd because, if seeing Donald Trump make it to the White House - right after one-term Senator Barack Obama - doesn't mean the maxim "anybody can president in America" is true, then I don't know what does. And hating the game, after Hillary lost it, is just sour grapes.

"Don't hate the player, Baby,..."

There's no need to go on. (I told you I don't reason with the unreasonable.) I'm just glad to acknowledge the Left's fantasy world is falling apart. I hope they don't take being "really woke" too hard - it's for the best:

All that sleeping everybody was doing is what got us into this mess.

John Ford Called (And He Still Wants His Art Form Back)

Matt Drudge is asking the toughies this morning:

"With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Will Smith flopping, what next for Hollywood?"

Oh, I don't know, maybe they'll try a viciously anti-NewAge film, starring somebody men can identify with - because we're pretty sure he's not a multi-"married" gay man, an adulterous Ken Wilber groupie, or a closeted Scientologist. 

That's just a guess, though I'm pretty sure they'll stick with M. Night Shyamalan,...

American Leadership In 2013: 300 Million Citizens But - For President - We'll Have To Choose Between Weirdos

“Definition of an optimist: a person with a depressed friend.”

- Alainde Botton 

   

 It isn't often nowadays, that I'll read the news and guffaw about it, but - even if I know his movie's a Scientology propaganda tool and that bothers me - this interview with Will Smith and his (totally brainwashed) kid is hilarious:

"I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything."

 

 Hmmm. I should say "Hillaryous":

"It has been said that Ken Wilber is a cult leader. Some say a destructive cult leader. He counts Bill and Hillary Clinton as followers. Bill Clinton has quoted him. Hillary responded enthusiastically, when asked if she was trying to find Wilber's Theory of Everything, 'That’s right, that’s exactly right!'”

Ken Wilber, Scientology, the same loopy "theory" - just as chiropractors recommend naturopaths, and they in turn recommend homeopathy, and so on - do you wonder why NewAgers keep saying "it's all connected"? They've constructed a web (The Matrix movie was a warning) that, they think, we'll never figure our way out of.

Before it's too late, that is.

 

So, Hillary is the next major presidential candidate after what we just went through with the Mormon, Mitt Romney? The naturally "most qualified" we're told? Jesus.

Fuck "Everything" - I've got a "Theory Of Elections" in the NewAge, and it goes like this:

From now on, every four years, we'll be hiding our faces in shame,...

 

My Reaction To NewAge (Is Also A Product Of NewAge)

Today, I'm saluting what-we're-being-sold-as America's "extended family".

From the Self-Help world, I see Dr. Joyce Brothers has died:

When asked why the public was hungry for personal advice from a public person, she proposed that an increasingly mobile society had heightened feelings of isolation. 

"There is a lot more searching for answers these days," Brothers told the Washington Post in 1979. "And a lot more answers too. But we're missing friends and kinship roles. So you rent a friend. Like Dr. Joyce Brothers." 

...One demographic that did not seek her advice was her own family. 

"She totally loses her objectivity," her husband told UPI in 1985. "With her family, she's abysmal."

 

 Speaking as someone who's been somewhat isolated my whole life, even when I had a choice, I'd never gone in for that "rent a friend" stuff. I mean, first of all, if you want 'em, real ones are free. (I know - wha?) Second, if you're renting 'em, they're going to tend to agree with you, right or wrong, right-right? Real friends don't do that. My friends and I argue, over the phone, about what we're wearing.

(Like I said, they're free,...)

   

 So - ruminating on the hidden fragility of the family unit vs. the obvious strength engendered in true friendships - what's the possibility of there having been some gravitational pull between A) the selling of circular reasoning by the "abysmal" B) a train wreck, and C) that train just happening to loop back on the blood relatives of the "extended family" they were unwittingly forced into?

As I've been saying for a while now, when it comes to social disaster, most roads lead to Oprah:

Readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. The new series of self-help books published by the London-based School of Life, co-founded by the Swiss-born popular philosopher Alain de Botton, echoes the school’s lofty approach to problems, claiming to be “intelligent, rigorous, well-written new guides to everyday living.” Yet to peruse the School of Life’s calendar of classes is to fall into a vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat,...

 

 This is the upside-down world of NewAge "Friends" - TV shows, talk shows, Facebook - today. Because, would any "friend" be allowed to buy into this nonsense, on the scale it's been, knowing we've got to look at each other tomorrow? Not around here.

Here's the true family reality:

Somewhere, deep down inside, Brad Pitt's wife, Jennifer Aniston, is doing the Snoopy dance - not because Angelina Jolie wasn't held down and abused by misogynistic male physicians - but, with Jolie having announced her breast removal was "My Medical Choice", it's also a pretty good guess it wasn't anything Anniston's husband, Brad, was counseled, or counting on, either.

That's the Self-Helped now.

 

Then there's also the unforgettable issue of Jolie's procedure being insufficiently homeopathic, but then, none of what's transpired - starting with Pitt originally leaving mega-NewAger Gwyneth Paltrow for Aniston - jibes with NewAge's stated purposes (there are many) or even the claims it's participants make about how they live their lives.

Forget friends and family, considering the sadism, I have to wonder, how do they sleep?

The Easy Answer:

 Like (the adulterous) Bill Clinton, to the words of "rent a friend" Ken Wilber.

 

I tell ya, they're everywhere.

It just occurred to me that, even knowing Jolie is a U.N. ambassador, this medical operation is the most significant thing the regularly-voted "Most Beautiful" actress in the world has ever done to garner respect in it.

That's absolutely insane.

It's no wonder so many stick to merely making money:

With so many "helping" this path to enlightenment stuff can be hard,...

 

How We Really Are Now (Part II: King's Lead Hat)

While discussing (the delightfully named) Pigeon O'Brien's Huffington Post column, on her role in the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter affair, Mickey Kaus says:

O’Brien makes it clear that Hunter has some kind of unreported charismatic power, but doesn’t quite explain what Edwards saw in her that would prompt him to put his campaign (and party) at risk. …

Really? Out of the many bloggers we read and respect, Mickey Kaus is no slouch in the Thinking Department, so it seems odd to us he'd need more help from O'Brien (above) to sort that particular issue out.

Especially when she opened her piece this way:

Lisa Druck was trouble,...Yet we liked her. There was something charming and feral in her aggressive bubbliness. The seedier stuff bothered my prudish self, stories of strip poker and non-monogamy. But I was seeing her ex-boyfriend and if I wanted to keep him out of the riskier stuff, I had to like her. So I did.

Charming, feral, aggressive, bubbly, seedy, non-monogamous, and risky.

If you ask us, that's a lot for Ol' Mickey to work with - even if O'Brien is describing Hunter in the 1980s. Fortunately, she doesn't stop there, and paints a more recent picture of Hunter:

In 2004 I went to a dinner party for the anniversary of [our friend Jay McInerney's book] Bright Lights, Big City in New York, and there she was. She looked and acted nothing like frenetic, drama-dragging Lisa. We became fast friends, again. Lisa -- now Rielle -- was living in Boulder, in the carriage house of her former mother-in-law. I was doing publicity, website design and marketing. She wasn't doing a whole ton of anything, but she had some ideas.

A foundation was the center of the work, which we broadened to a website as a way of marketing her voice and image for a possible TV show, the "MTV guru." Rielle's friends Bob McGovern and Randy would help with logistics. We made a website. She paid for the domain name, I paid hosting. We spent five, six hours a day on the phone, gabbing and working.

She was really good at the guru stuff. Once I was on a miserable, rainy client trip. I moaned to Rielle. She was impatient, not loving my issues. "What are things you want?" she barked. I babbled about wanting prompt payment and value in my personal life. "No," she cut me off. "Money and love. Can you get those today? On this day? In the rain?" "Well, no..." I stammered. "Then focus on today. What's in front of you to do. The path. Don't be attached to outcomes. Don't DO, just BE." Oh. Ok. And the money and love came in time, as they will.

Soon the foundation and the website -- Being Is Free -- spiraled into too many months of fruitless work. I abandoned it. We spoke less, but a few months later, she was back on the beam. She had a crystal clear vision of what she wanted, and had moved to the New York area to stay with her friend Mimi. We rapidly filled in the site: her bio, cringingly titled 'Story of My Life,' a story of awakening called 'Shift Happens,' and 'Kids on Board,' the ever-important board of directors, which was mostly just a list of people helping Rielle. I came and went from this list. It was a fun gauge of how useful I was to old Lisa Druck.

Two sections remained blank: 'Fame I Am Lives Forever' and 'Where the Money Goes.' It's funny how those came in time, as they will.

As she made forays into yoga instruction in New York, there abruptly came a two-day silence. When she surfaced, it was loudly: "I met someone!" Her voice was thrilled. He must be really something. "What's his name?" "JOHN!" she sang. "Does he live in New York?" "No, North Carolina!" North Carolina? I pictured a skinny bearded guy, with enough money or mojo to catch her eye. "He's married," she quickly added, "small kids."

And there you have it. In Part I of this series, "The Safety Dance", we observed the bizarre, yet seemingly deliberate way bloggers discuss religion and spirituality, in an apparent attempt to avoid whatever troubles can arise from appearing to do so. Mickey Kaus appears to be engaged in just this behavior when he suggests that, with the wealth of information O'Brien lays at his feet, he somehow needs more before he can figure out what was going on between Edwards and Hunter.

But, in case we're wrong, let's clear it up for him:

A self-styled guru, spitting mindless pabulum like "Don't DO, just BE" (as in "Be Here Now") and is either into teaching or learning yoga to better bend over for married fathers?

The attraction was NewAge and sex, Mickey, though not necessarily always in that order.

Now before you say that's not enough for Edwards to "put his campaign (and party) at risk", we will remind you only one of them was necessary for Bill Clinton to put his presidency at risk. Also, Clinton, too, has shown a weakness for NewAge psychobabble, working as he has with Tony Robbins, and as his quoting cult leader Ken Wilber proves:



Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also been known to agree with Wilber's "Theory of Everything", as well as cavort with NewAge psychics.

But let's get back to Rielle Hunter and John Edwards:

I struck up a conversation with the woman at the next event, as we waited outside. She told me her name and asked me what my astrological sign was, which I thought was a little unusual. I told her. She smiled, and began telling me her life story: how she was working as a documentary-film maker, living with a friend in South Orange, N.J., but how she'd previously had "many lives." She'd worked, she said, as an actress and as a spiritual adviser. She was fiercely devoted to astrology and New Age spirituality. She'd been a New York party girl, she'd been married and divorced, she'd been a seeker and a teacher and was a firm believer in the power of truth.

She told me that she had met Edwards at a bar, at the Regency Hotel in New York. She thought he was giving off a special "energy."

...I would soon learn that there was no such thing as small talk with Rielle Hunter. She told me that she'd felt a connection to me when we'd first met, that she could tell I was a very old soul. This meant a lot to Rielle. Her speech was peppered with New Age jargon—human beings were dragged down by "blockages" to their actual potential; history was the story of souls entering and escaping our field of consciousness. A seminal book for her had been Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now." Her purpose on this Earth, she said, was to help raise awareness about all this, to help the unenlightened become better reflections of their true, repressed selves.

Her latest project was John Edwards. Edwards, she said, was an old soul who had barely tapped into any of his potential. The real John Edwards, she believed, was a brilliant, generous, giving man who was driven by competing impulses—to feed his ego and serve the world. If he could only tap into his heart more, and use his head less, he had the power to be a "transformational leader" on par with Gandhi and Martin Luther King. "He has the power to change the world," she said.

I had been nodding and sipping my wine through all this. "Do you talk about this stuff with the candidate?" I asked. "All the time," Rielle replied. "I'll lecture him on it when he's getting too much up in here," she said, gesturing toward her head. "He'll see a look on my face and say, 'Yes, I know, Rielle, "Power of Now" says …' "

...She hoped that with her unique eye for Edwards's true potential, she could show the world the real John Edwards and, in the process, help him to become the better version of himself.

So what's our point? We wouldn't hesitate to place a bet that somewhere around a quarter of the Democratic Party is somehow involved in some form of NewAge spirituality or another - and all without the public's notice or understanding of how it influences their leader's choices or what a politician's occult beliefs actually mean.

We'd also be willing to wager, if the public knew these things - and we mean really knew - they'd leave the Democratic Party in droves.

That goes double for blacks.

And it is TMR's contention they have every right to know. That it's about time somebody started speaking the truth about what's going on with the NewAge belief system in particular.

But what, exactly, would we tell them? Consider:

Rielle Hunter saw John Edwards - a white ambulance chasing lawyer and opportunistic politician - as the modern day equivalent of Martin Luther King.

And, since we all remember Bill Clinton was also seen, somehow, as America's "first black president" (until reality set in) we think that's also a pretty good place to start.

To be continued,....