What The Bleep Do We Know?

I went to bed last night feeling sorry for that doomed loser Hillary Clinton and woke up to see her triumphant, Joker-meets-the-Riddler smile looming from my laptop.

Did I share in the collective shame of the blogosphere today while eating the Clintonian breakfast of champions - crowq-au-vin, humble pie and an egg cream?

No! I did what the Clintons themselves would do. I looked around to see where I could point the finger of blame. I didn't have to look far.

There's no vast right wing conspiracy in my living room but there is a DVD copy of The Secret.

You must remember The Secret. It brought the concept of the Law of Attraction to the Days of Our Lives crowd. Five million copies of the book and video version of the "secret that traveled through centuries to reach you" have been sold since 2006.

Oprah loved The Secret. She featured it twice on her show last year.

The Secret is basically a well-packaged bunch of the oldest non-secrets of all time: Thoughts become things -- so think good ones. Like attracts like. What you think about you bring about. Ask, believe, receive.

The collective consciousness after Iowa would have sent any proponent of The Secret reeling. The negative thoughts about Hillary Clinton were like a tsunami. And she and Bill weren't practicing the power of positive thinking, either.

Bill whined, "I can't make her younger, taller, male." Hillary wept.

Still, she won in New Hampshire. What's the secret?

The tears? Didn't hurt.

The law of entropy? Possibly. Just don't make me explain it.

Were those last 24 hours Hillary's own transformative Jungian night sea journey? Maybe.

But let's look at the big picture. By that I mean the really big picture.

"You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it," says Fred Alan Wolf, who is billed as a "quantum physicist" in the video version of The Secret. "The mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived."

These days, you can't have a campaign without the blogosphere entering into it. The blogosphere is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

I think the ancients called it "The Law of De-traction."

It's a secret that's been suppressed for centuries. Only a few people know about it.

Their last name is Clinton.

Comments

[ignorantwillyharper]

I wonder if Vicent, would vote for Hillary this year...if he could?

[SimplySimon]

On the endless diet search for losing weight, I am trying out that "What the (Bleep)" philosophy that I can alter the universe with my thoughts. Whenever I get the late night munchies, I whisper or shout to my body, "EAT FAT!!!" I'll report on my success or failure. Sorry this has nothing to do with politics but fat in this country is BIG.

[WilliePilgrim]

In the current state of the electorate where barely half those eledgeble actually vote, the secret is not some metaphysical explanation, nor is it the insight provided by the informed opinions of the media professionals. It is,however, due to hard work of actually connecting with the people and organizing them. Clinton,for all her faults, has organization behind her. One may not like it when one is trying to break away from it but there is no doubt that every liberal or progressive in the this country needs to take it into consideration if they wish to confront how it is that their opponents have succeded so famously in the last few years...and for all the hoo hah about the BS implied in fundamentalist thought, that magical thinking in "the secret" is as pernicious an idea as any unleashed onto an ostensibly literate populace. Shame that belief in miracles has undercut both our intellects and our understanding, effectively squashing the hope that the left can lead and not look just as bad as their opponents.
As for me; I'll reserve my adulation and veneration for the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

[Spikethedog]

I think the secret for the Clintons was "You can be a woman even without wearing a (blue)dress and if you are a woman then women will vote for you just because you're a woman."
57 percent of her votes came from women.
And I think you're right about that crying thing. It made her seem to....sniff, sniff....human.
'Bout time she seemed human.
Bet it doesn't last.

[raptor]

What tears? Just moist eyes. HRC is no Jesus, but "Jesus wept". That should stmie some conservative christians for awhile.