Law of Attraction: Not-at-all Attractive

Given that, to Mrs Rhonda Byrne (The Secret’s author, a best-seller on the law), the apple struck Newton was by no mean a hallucination. Rather, he must have craved it so ardently that the universe eventually responded to his longing (Law of Attraction).

Contrary to the former having leveraged classical physics and the human civilization as a whole, the latter has since been uncloaked as the pseudoscience holding its “bigots” back. A Psychology Today article posted by Dr Neil Farber was with the title:

"The truth about the Law of Attraction"

With a, albeit terse, brief subheading: "It's unreal!"

Mark Manson, on the other hand, uploaded another article:

"The Staggering Bullshit of The Secret"

With a description line: "The Secret - of the so-called ‘Law of Attraction’ - pounds us into the self-deception and blindness of accepting our emotions, in another word, nothing-but -bullshit”.

Such a “law” has thrived on pseudoscience, selling millions of books and courses on pretty much nothing (if not thinking malicious). Still, since we’re yet to be that influential, we could hardly entitle today’s article "Law of Attraction: a new scam in the name of science?".

1. Quick bites for fragile souls

Given my great expectations that the scientific advancement would leverage the entire civilization, bettering the world and polishing human brains. The answer I’ve longing for has been encapsulated in the latter: well-polished brains have turned us sceptical to everything.

Given that, our fragility has got us defenceless to those taking the sting out of us. If astrology, horoscopes, physiognomy, divination “leveraged” the prevailing philosophical theories within when they had been born (Wuxing, Bagua, I Ching, and geocentric model) to set up the very systems to thrive on, modern science has also bred similar “byproducts”, to name a few, fingerprint biometrics or Law of Attraction and other pseudoscience things.

Whether old-school or “advanced”, they’re to gain insights into oneself, hunting down his all-time missions, “releasing the internal universe energy”, “cutting down” the universe “to size”, from which drawing a conclusion to how to get rich, talented or at least overcome the current struggles.

As ancient creatures, we’ve been born with primitive algorithms to survive, and create a society wherein we could thrive. That said, these biological machines have every so often turned dismal, disheartened, distressed and loss - intrinsically the side effects of internal chemical reactions, let alone the "perception curse" we’ve exchanged for intelligence.

Inasmuch as some have grasped this golden opportunity to sell pain-relievers for or merely snacks to fragile souls,

And there came the Law of Attraction. All that one can get from is purely the metaphor cited from another notorious self-help, The Alchemist: “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”, which can be straightforwardly interpreted as positive thinking brightening up our gloomy lives. Given that, why could The Secret get that well-sold? Is it secret that simply?

The Secret was the first to introduce the “law of attraction” to the public, offering fundamental science premises (given that they’re falsified at the very core), to illustrate, the things that make us up are charged with the positive electron (?!); physics has it that the things of similar characteristics attract each other (?!); the logical thinking process burns problems on our head (Nani?); ether connects minds and universe, getting us immersed in the “ultimate entity” (?!); ether connects minds with each other and the universe, helping us to merge with supreme intelligence (?!); sound vibrations, at certain levels, produce heat, light and even streams of thought (?!); whatever we crave is turned into a form of energy, which goes through the ether to turn it into reality (?!).

This reminds me of a comment on the previous Astrology article on how we’re doomed by lunar activities: (1) the moon affects the tide (2) water has emotions [source: gamekak?!] and (3) 70% of our bodies are water. Which are by no mean justifiable from the very beginning.