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September 11, 2008 2:31 PM
Dimwit Alert: "The Collective Pain Body" First of all: fair warning. You have to be really, really shallow, or really, really patient to enjoy watching this interview between Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey. The "Pain Body," according to Eckhart--who has all the eyeless animation of a beige-colored tub of salt-free tofu--is the collective, atmospheric body of wrongs done to your demographic. If you're Native American, the victory of European settlers is your "pain body." If you're African-American, slavery is your "pain body." If you're a woman, the patriarchy is your "pain body." Keep in mind, you don't have to have been victimized by any particular evil, or any particular perpetrator. If you're in a historically victimized group, you have deposits in the "pain body" bank. You can, in other words, blame it all on the "pain body." Tolle, a Deutsche-born child of the German fatherland, doesn't believe that a drive-by shooting, or even the Nazi holocaust is evil. (Evil doesn't exist, for Tolle, but "pain" does. (?)) Well, it seems Oprah knows a good thing when she sees it. There is simply no way you can excuse the preaching of Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's twenty-year pastor, without finding a new philosophical construct to do some heavy-duty bamboozling--and I mean pronto. If "Pastor" Wright enjoys a 10,000 square foot, golf course-view home, and a great middle-class American education, I mean, how can he be playing the martyr? "What you can't possibly understand, Mr. _______ (fill in white, male, or European as necessary), is the extent to which "the pain body" has damaged me!" According to Eckhart Tolle, the "pain body" actually took over Jeremiah Wright's person when he gave those racist sermons blaming all of the world's trouble on "rich white men." This sounds like a nordic, New Age version of "the devil made me do it," but we know that new names sometimes breath life into bad ideas long dead. (In the educational world, the failed "look-say" reading methodology became the academy-sanctioned "whole language." In the world of economics, "socialized medicine" became "state funded single-payer.") When in doubt, find a new name for an excuse everyone knows is either stupid, or evil, or both. Oprah's popularity, given this reality, is deeply disapointing. There is no such thing, class,as the "pain body." It can't be measured, weighed, or calibrated. There is no vault to hold this stuff, no lab to study it, no camerman to get it on film. It's high-falutin' BALDERDASH and New Age snake oil, and, most importantly a rationalization for re-investing in race-hatred and race-politics. Watching Oprah is something like taking a big spoonful of moron-milk-shake with your Grapenuts in the morning. For the the sake of the mentally challenged people in your extended clan, you should begin treating Oprah like nicotine. "Sorry, Aunt Chloe, this is an Oprah-free zone." I wouldn't be so worked up about this idiocy, except to report that some suffering sister called the farm today, apparently in response to our Civil War civilian event, and asked a race-question so crass, I won't repeat it here. It never fails. You try to host an event that features the American Civil War and some folky code-pink nut ball tries to plant a burning cross on the front lawn--just so they can kick it down. I wouldn't be surprised if she was wearing a Ché bonnet and opening the doors on her "Pain Body" advent calendar, ahead of schedule. I'm with the Calvinists on this one. Some people are born children of hell, and this lady, short of a mighty act of God, is one of them. So here's a message for that moron on the phone today--go home and cozy up to the father of lies in that burning, brimstone pit you seem destined for. No decent person could ask one of our staff the question you asked today. Get thee behind me, Satan. And that's my Christian opinion!
More of the Farm Journal -- September 9, 2008
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