On the local access television station, late at night, you can watch videos of gurus talking to their flocks. These aren’t Indian gurus, they are from other places, and mostly from the USA; some from Wisconsin. I was watching one of these guys last Tuesday night when it dawned on me that it doesn’t seem to take much to just put up a shingle and say you’re a guru. There is a common thread to what they teach and how they talk. You too can become a guru with a little know-how and by putting your imagination to the grindstone, so to speak.
How do they talk, these gurus? If you want to be a guru, you need to know. They speak like they are a cross between a robot and a mental patient, not to demean mental patients. And they have a look in their eyes that is distant yet psychotic. On their faces they wear a plastic smile as if everything they are saying is brilliant and wise. They also speak in a monotone voice, very measured, not because they want to hypnotize you, but because they are insane. Read the rest of this entry »
Television is a vapid void of crap, except for a very few shows. I don’t watch it. Three years ago I cancelled my cable and have watched about 5 hours total since that day. Most of these 5 hours consisted of watching the Oscars on a local station that I can get with my antenna.