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I have seen "The Secret". It is sort of a craze down here in Brazil and it only speaks for our national all-time low in capacity for critical thinking, our rampant intellectual debility and unwillingness to chew our mind food for ourselves. It's just like when the Portuguese came to Brazil and they got to pacify the aggressive instincts of the native indians by showing them all sorts of cheap trinkets: bijoutry, mirrors, combs. The Indians were ecstatic and didn't eat anyone[1].
This system is being talked about in the parties of the uninformed, bourgeois and bohemian alike, and people who in their daily low-brow routines wouldn't care a cat's fart for the heavy theoretical concepts purportedly supporting this "system" (concepts which are being stretched and warped in order to lend an appearance of causal significance to what is nothing more than a piece of grandmotherly advice - if your grandmother happened to be a naive silly old lady) are now blabbing cluelessly that "oh quantum physics sez" and referring to the inner workings of the Universe as one would talk about the bathroom plumbing.
Don't even get me started in the blatant marketing strategy of having the thing presented as a sort of "DaVinci Code" deal with the parchment and ink stains and wax seal, hinting to alluring ancient knowledge (that would be easily accessible in our enlightened time - how convenient - in a complete package which you can pay with your credit card), of having the thing called "THE Secret", like one would expect to see painted above a traveling medicine show wagon etc etc.
It's a cutthroat world out there for the wide-eyed. I'd advise some judicious squinting now and then...
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[1] - ... for a while (I suppose someone got eaten at some point during our colonizatory process...) |
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