In workshops and webinars offered around the globe, Davis [Rennie baby, of SDS fame] tells listeners that the world is "not solid, objective or real, but a psychological construct" whose origin lies within each one of us... "We create our own reality, right down to the last detail," he states. "So when each of us changes our thoughts, we change the world we live in."...Davis says that it is time to move into a world where there is no blame and no judgment. His vision is a world where there is nothing to fix, because trying to fix something (or someone) implies it is wrong, and that he reminds, is a judgment. (source)
So let me get this straight: as part of the world, Davis himself is nothing more than a psychological construct (or maybe it's his silly notions that are). But whose exactly? His own? Mine? Or those of the author of the article? Or of his parents? So what happens if his particular construct of the world clashes with mine? Does he simply wish me into oblivion? Further, how does he deal with hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, conflagrations, all those pesky little anonymous constructs that have a tendency to overwhelm us mortals?
And just think, the only thing the Jews had to do to escape Hitler and the gas chambers was "change their thoughts." Just decide that the round-ups and the shootings and, oh yeah, the gassings were nothing more than a psychological construct that the persecuted could---Presto-Changeo!---will away merely by thinking beautiful thoughts of being back home in the shtetl...or even better, being on some Tahitian island with 100's of virgins.
And the no-judgment thing: no doubt, the Nazis would love it, since it gets them off the hook for their massacres. Come to think of it, what if Davis is paid to evangelize the masses with this Baspel, the better to allow the scoundrels in Big Government and Big Business to continue all their outrages with cheerful impunity?
Oy, why am I such a cynic? After all, if this MTM (Magic Thoughts Method) really works, wouldn't it be a most wonderful way of getting rid of the Plague in the White House? What's not to like about that?
I think whoever designed this bumper sticker perfectly summed up the ludicrousy of that whole MTM mentality:
