The Sucky Secret

January 17, 2008

The hype for "The Secret" has gotten to me so I downloaded the film this morning. I watched less than a third of it just a while ago before promptly getting sick of the whole juju-talk. "The Secret" is basically this: if you think about what you want hard enough, you’ll get it. The whole universe will conspire to give you whatever you want, Cuelho style, be it cars, soulmates, laptops, health—and with the way they were going at it—maybe immortality. If you happen to want a holocaust too, Mistress Cosmos will step right up on your doorstep and give you a holocaust. That’s how it works according to "the most powerful law in the universe", which is the Law of Attraction.

 

I can understand why The (so-called) Secret is so popular today. It encourages the fast, materialistic lifestyles which are valued by most people nowadays and it kills the nasty word "sacrifice" out of our vocabularies. The Law of Attraction shall give you everything your heart desires. Everything. Don’t you have a problem with that? I do. Because not everything you want is something I want. For example, you might badly want me dead. But I don’t want to be dead. For whom will the Law of Attraction work? The one who wants the most? What happens when two humans want opposite things exactly as much as the other?

 
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