discardia

I was browsing Amazon dot com yesterday, to check out the latest and greatest in miscellaneous and varied crap. And something caught my eye. Something profoundly… dichotomous.

At the top of the best-sellers list for DVD, is a movie called “The Secret”. Now “The Secret” is not really a secret at all. At least it isn’t if you haven’t been living in a dark cave for your entire life. And if you have been, I am quite curious just how the hell you are on the internet.

“The Secret” (I have to use quotes as if I am using my fingers to imply emphasis) as it is called, is just a series of lectures and historical “proof” as to the outcomes of positive thinking. Now positive thinking is a powerful self motivator, but by no means is it a secret. And, it definitely does not mean that your positive thinking is going to somehow magically manifest the desired results.

But then again, if it did, we all would be billionaires, and through the magic of inflation, the current situation of the fiscal market place would all be the same anyway. Except candy bars would now cost 10,000 bucks instead of 1. Oooooooh, now that’s magic!

I think it is quite hilarious that this “secret” is a top seller on Amazon. The best kept secret is people are idiots to buy that shit. Just like the people that actually fall for those commercials to buy those “kits” to show them how to be millionaires overnight by just working part time at some mysterious task for a mysterious product for a mysterious end result.

1. Buy kit.
2. ???
3. Profit!

It’s a scheme just to make other people money, you farktards! Success takes hard work! Dedication! And the desire to sacrifice! It is not a kit you can buy, or a movie, or some secret real estate scheme that you have you making $10,000 your first month. And, let me tell you what, no amount of positive thinking is going to make it happen either. It is a good thing to wake up and think to yourself, “today I am going to go kick some butt” or “this week people are going to value my work because I going to make sure my work is a positive contribution”. You can’t personally motivate money into your bank account, no matter what a DVD tells you. And personal happiness is not a secret either… you can’t find it in a book, or a dvd, or a seminar. (My wife is going to hate this, but I don’t think Religion (capital R) will help you either.) The path to happiness, true happiness, is just to remind yourself everyday that you are breathing, this is the only day like this, and you could be dead. Based on that, every day is just plum dandy.

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Oh, and by the way, it’s not a secret if it is for sale on Amazon.