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,...

 

A Vision Of The New World (Back To Common Sense)

 

 TMR doesn't usually give points for niggas being clever, but I gotta hand it to Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) for this one:

“If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted”

 

 How he wrapped his head around that one, I don't know, but we likes.

   

Yesterday, I had time to ponder that bitch-with-too-many-puppies/insect behavior type killer instinct in feminists, and how it tends to focus on the weak - children, the unpopular girl, the man who's down and out. All fair game. Unless it's two of 'em, straight-up, going at it face-to-face, feminists generally ain't up to a challenge like the average guy would be. That's why they need insane laws to do their dirty work for 'em. 

It has nothing to do with men being physically stronger than women because, if you exclude one sex, there's always going to be somebody stronger. The whole argument and set-up makes no logical sense. It's just legitimizing the desire to do damage - like we need more of that. 

 So why any man went along with it is the mystery. 

   

 I figure the words and "counterproductive" and "masochist" hadn't really gotten into circulation yet.

   

 But, take it from me, a future filled with breaking this shit down is gonna be loaded with fun:

“If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted”

 

 I tell you, as a foster child, when it comes to coping with the reality feminists have created for us (and I know I'm one of the "lucky" ones) "clever" or not, the imagery is worth the price of admission,...

 

No Matter What's On Offer (I Am Not Cut Out For Cults)

Flirty Fishing, anyone? Rape me, shut up, and get out of here. 

I said shut up.

It's just the way it is,...

Fine. O.K. Whatever. Let Him Open A Hair Salon

"[U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball] said [Elizabeth Smart kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell's] religious beliefs, which are shared by a small group of fundamentalist extremists, are not a sign that he is delusional. He also said there is significant evidence that Mitchell lacks empathy and has a pattern of sadism."

-- Pamela Manson, winning today's "Great Cult Name" award - anyone with "Manson" is probably a shoo-in - while delivering news we don't agree with, but have to accept, from The Salt Lake Tribune.

And Long Walks On The Beach Covered In Blood

"On his site, Katehis called himself 'Extremist, an Anarchist, a Sadomasochist' and said he enjoys 'long conversations, drinking, bike riding, hanging out.'"

-- Alison Gendar and Corky Siemaszko, describing John Katehis, the "16-year-old Satan-loving sadomasochist with a knife fetish" who killed WABC newsman George Weber, making The Daily News.