Manifesting self-help severed individuals from collectivity and prior knowledge.

Evidence

As podcast host Peter Shamshiri concluded, The Secret promoted a destructive worldview: “The book is proposing the tenets of the fall of human civilization…. The complete disconnection of every person from every other person, the discarding of all knowledge heretofore acquired. All of it to be replaced by the unfiltered pursuit of our shallowest desires.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Contributes the strongest critical voice against the whole direction Marx indicts — a weapon for the reader’s counter-case. — connects to: Self-help ideology makes individuals feel responsible for misery that corporations create — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 533