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The Secret backlash?

TV's Frank

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TV's Frank
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Hey folks, I've noticed a couple things on TV lately that just make me happy: is it me, or does it seem that comedy writers are really against The Secret?

Okay, I've only seen it mentioned on two shows: Best Week Ever (a weekly entertainment news wrapup), and Saturday Night Live last night.

On both shows, they took an excellent approach. They simply presented The Secret as exactly what it claims to be: a way to control the universe with your mind. The SNL skit was based on the Oprah show, and made several good points (including a bit where they blamed the strife in Darfur on "negative thoughts").

One Best Week Ever commentator said, "I'm going to use my new powers to find world peace and end hunger...but first I really want that new video iPod!"

I'm guessing comedians must have seen this and realized that the humor pretty much writes itself, since it is so ridiculus.

So, have you guys spotted anything else like this? Is the media starting to show The Secret for what it really is?
 
Very good article in today's Toronto Star.
http://www.thestar.com/article/193263

It's pretty thorough and does come down on the side of rationality and reason. Though not as stridently as I would do it.

A couple of telling paragraphs:
Another (question -GiT), from a young man. "I really love what you're doing," he says. "But how, for example, was 9/11 attracted to the people in those buildings? That's something I can't understand."

Another thoughtful pause. Diamond, in her madras blazer and jeans, furrows her brow and speaks softly, breathily. "Sometimes, we experience the law of attraction collectively," she says. "The U.S. maybe had a fear of being attacked. Those 3,000 people – they might have put out some kind of fear that attracted this to happen, fear of dying young, fear that something might happen that day. But sometimes, it is collective."
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I mean how can you lose? This a secular version of "God works in mysterious ways".
 
I find religious people to be agianst it. Mainly cause it cuts into thier gig/scam.
 
TV's Frank said:
Hey folks, I've noticed a couple things on TV lately that just make me happy: is it me, or does it seem that comedy writers are really against The Secret?

Okay, I've only seen it mentioned on two shows: Best Week Ever (a weekly entertainment news wrapup), and Saturday Night Live last night.

On both shows, they took an excellent approach. They simply presented The Secret as exactly what it claims to be: a way to control the universe with your mind. The SNL skit was based on the Oprah show, and made several good points (including a bit where they blamed the strife in Darfur on "negative thoughts").

One Best Week Ever commentator said, "I'm going to use my new powers to find world peace and end hunger...but first I really want that new video iPod!"

I'm guessing comedians must have seen this and realized that the humor pretty much writes itself, since it is so ridiculus.

So, have you guys spotted anything else like this? Is the media starting to show The Secret for what it really is?
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It's a win-win situation. The author laughs all the way to the bank, and the comedians have some good material that was halfway written for them.

Everyone' is a winner.

DR
 
It isn't just the comedies, Charlie Gibson had a piece on the dangers of the Secret that showed how absurd the idea really is.
 
Bill Maher did a bit with Deepak Chopra a few weeks back where they talked about the secret. It was very very funny seeing Deepak Chopra call a woo idea crazy.
 
"The Secret" was a topic on the US TV show "The View" this morning. My wife called me away from work to listen to Rosie O'Donnell. She absolutely slaughtered "The Secret". At least there is someone with a brain (forget her CT instincts) to counter "Oprah the Credulous".
 
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