Interesting opposition of posts in GD.

[lildreamer316]

First I read this:

Americans, Their Smiley-Face Facade, and Reality

"The Secret became a runaway best-seller by telling readers that they could have anything they wanted just by imagining it. The book was obviously unadulterated bunk, but it sold madly as people grasped at any chance to better their lives. One has to wonder if such magical thinking would have been so popular if people felt they had temporal power to change the conditions of their work and prospects...

On the surface, prosperity gospels and positive-thinking companies appear harmless with their treacly "Successories products" of posters and coffee mugs, but they have subversively helped make each of us an island. They have convinced Americans that each individual has control and power over the conditions of their life, when that is largely not the case."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x490387



Then my eye fell upon this:

Would it change your life to learn that the act of observing something creates that thing?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6817143

Now I know it's not quite the same thing (no really, I understand the semantic and real differences in the arguments), but I found it an interesting opposition nonetheless. You?

[Kind of Blue]

1. Thanks for the link, Lildreamer. I was about to give up

trying to understand until I read Blackhatjack's post on interpretation more to the point than observation of the thing, based on what we know.