Ideologies attribute failure to the practitioner, never the method

Evidence

Ideologies often transfigure the view of the realities of life. In the enthusiasm, facts such as safety, finances, health, couple cohesion, family stability, or child well-being are readily passed over. In a vague way, it is usually assumed that these areas are not important or are automatically improved by the ideology. Especially in fields of esotericism, the reference to plain reality is deliberately abandoned. If you wish the right thing hard enough from the universe, you become rich and healthy. People in the right mindset are automatically successful and happy. Just to doubt it can destroy everything. Then only more seminars help. (“And maybe you should separate from this critical partner, his negative aura only pulls you down.”) As a result, the fault for failure never lies with the method or the guru himself, but with the person who makes mistakes in the implementation or is “not yet mature enough.” — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 451

Categorization

• XREF: This is the classic unfalsifiable belief-structure pattern described in cognitive science of religion and cult-mind-control literature.
• DEEPTHINKING: The self-sealing logic — failure always blamed on the practitioner, doubt treated as destructive, more seminars as the only remedy — is a dense account of how belief systems insulate themselves from reality.