Comments on The Secret is Money

Thank you for hating The Secret. I love you.

A person close to me totally believes in the Secret. She believes that people get raped or murdered because they put energy into the universe calling those acts to them. She doesn't put that energy out there and she hasn't been raped or murdered so see, it works. Grrrrrrrrrrr

On the contrary, you should respect the creators of The Secret for figuring out a relatively harmless way to capitalize on people's amazing stupidity.

@2: It's not harmless, though. It's taking advantage of people's stupidity, and potentially making them even dumber. Did you read PopTart's post, above you? It's a totally harmful book.

Paul @ 3,

Hey it's not like that Secret woman (some Australian gal who srsly needs some Alberto VO5?) started a war or sold her customers worthless investments.

She simply told people that they could control the Universe with their thoughts, and then rented an eighteen-wheeler to haul off her tons and tons of cash.

The Stupids are gonna spend their money/waste their limited brain power on something, so better a book or a movie than something which causes immediate misery and destruction like donating money/voting Republican, right? (I'm not saying the two aren't linked).

As much as I hate that fucking book/franchise, i agree with Andrew. Smart stupid people have been capitalizing on not as smart stupid people since the dawn of, i don't know, consciousness? And some people believe in their own, completely harmful, doctrines and miss out on the whole "tons of cash" thing.

I guess it's true, but I refuse to give these fuckers an inch. Do you know that, after this whole Secret thing, Oprah had to go on her show and tell her fans to go to their doctors? She got a letter from a fan saying that the fan had stopped going to her doctor and was fighting her cancer with positive thinking, like she read in The Secret. Now, I know the blogosphere is thick with people who say things like "Let the stupid people die," but I refuse to subscribe to that thinking. I think it's just sad that this woman believed Oprah and The Secret so much that she was willing to entrust her life to them, and now these fuckers are fighting over three hundred million dollars.

Eric Powell wrote a funny comic about that book. I think it's in The Goon #0: Satan's Sodomy Baby.

Several months ago a friend of mine told me about the Secret and I ended up writing a whole blog entry about it on my webpage. I said to my friend that the poverty-stricken masses just must not be positive enough, otherwise they would have all the food they wanted. And why bother looking in the mailbox, since you can simply wish for your electric bill to be magically paid for? I'm not religious, but it seems a tad sacriligious to reduce whatever deity one believes in to one's personal Maytag repairman.

I'm loving your post and I share your hatred for The Secret. My fantasy has been for the author of The Secret to give a lecture to families in Baghdad. Ugh!

Last week I went to a small business workshop sponsored by my city economic development office and the chanber of commerce. It featured a demographer from the state university, a business reference librarian from the city library and a representative from the SBA, BUT the first 40 minutes (!) featured a "motivational speaker" who spoke about The Secret, The Law of Attraction and Oprah. I tuned out, but the city plans to have her back in June for her own workshop.

So--do I raise a stink? If this was a private forum I'd just ignore it, but I just feel compelled to make sure these jokers know not everyone believes The Secret is appropriate in a publicly-sponsored forum. If I did object, should I just encourage another speaker to receive equal time? Or just leave this stupidity alone?

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