THE NEW AGE IS HERE! (welcome to Hell....)

Charles Winecoff has another excellent article. Does this guy write anything crappy?
He's goin' on this time about the creepy New Age worship of The One and the insanity of their Fundamentalist Liberal Religion. Here's a bit:

San Francisco columnist Mark Morford hails Obama a “Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being… who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet… help us evolve.”

This sent me on an inner journey - wondering if people really believe this kind of mumbo-jumbo when it comes to crass US politics. Have the daily niceties of Oprah rotted our brains that much? Or is there something else, possibly less benign, behind such trendy prophecies?

In places like Beverly Hills and Santa Fe, pampered prophets pull out the spiritual card at the first sign of any unmonitored human emotion - usually anger, which they themselves invariably stuff and cover with sinister calm. Express anything less than total satisfaction with the latest Presidential flip-flop on national defense, Michelle Obama’s arms, or that (suspiciously Marxist) five-year cyber-pledge to visualize world peace - and you’ll get this typical, flat response:

“I’m concerned about you. Have you read Eckhart Tolle?”

You mean the guy who alleviates liberal guilt by perpetuating the multicultural myth that the white man (me) is inherently cruel and that Western industrialization is the cancer of the planet? Yes I have - and once was enough. But thanks for caring.

Such compassion. Yet the same enlightened believers who rage against “Catholic guilt” (and sympathize with Muslim rage), who claim that Evangelical Christians hold Washington in their grip, and scream that Mormons keep gays oppressed, are the first to use their own smug, metaphysical superiority as a psychological shiv to bring non-believers, apostates - and anyone not registered as a Democrat - to their knees.

Call it New Age jihad. Since 9/11, the religion of anti-Americanism has been winning hearts, minds, and souls faster than the much-dreaded Christianity or the celebrity cult of Scientology - and it’s keeping neck-in-neck with that poor, misunderstood underdog called Islam. But at least the New Age movement is capitalistic. In fact, it’s ruthlessly profit-driven - a booming cottage industry that thrives on Anglo-guilt as it shamelessly trivializes the indigenous (i.e. Native American) beliefs it pretends to venerate.

In other words, nondenominational self-loathing has become an urban guilty pleasure. Or, as Marianne Williamson put it, “The search for God is a lifestyle decision.”

Read it all.