…but all the above really would seem to evidence is that the first 9 items don’t “work” (don’t seem to serve those seeking to employ them) under conditions of, or in certain settings within, “modern capitalism.” We already knew that.
H/t XKCD, via Testing The Weird – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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bob wrote:
He forgot diet and exercise.
They don’t actually profit from them, only from their illusion.
C’mon, does anyone really believe in them?
There is the new-age fallback position. “Weird” things don’t work when they are being used in connection with low-level energetic activities and the energy of business and military profiteering is as low-level as it gets so, of course, all those weird things don’t work in connection with them.
“Low-level” vs. “high-level” is prejudicial. I prefer totally neutral terms like “evil” and “good.”
@ CK MacLeod:
Okay.
He forgot diet and exercise.
They don’t actually profit from them, only from their illusion.