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The Unlightenment

Charlie Brooker has a real talent for rants. His latest on Woo is a masterpiece… 
Welcome to a dangerous new era – the Unlightenment – in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They’re everywhere – reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about "chakras" and "healing energies", praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping these people round the face till they behave like adults, we encourage them. We’ve got to respect their beliefs, apparently.
 
Well I don’t. "Spirituality" is what cretins have in place of imagination. If you’ve ever described yourself as "quite spiritual", do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you’re incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the contemptuous mockery it deserves?  
Preach it, Charlie, my boy!

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2 responses to “The Unlightenment”

  1. Brian Avatar
    Brian

    Seems to me he could do with a dose of Sanatogen.  Why is it not possible for Spirituality to be the by-product of a curious mind, indeed a function of the imagination?  To have a spiritual aspect of oneself doesn’t preclude rationality and enlightenment, it’s simply another way to seek understanding.  It’s not having all the answers, rather the journey to those answers and that sometimes means, if you are wise, recasting the questions.  I have an inherent distrust of absolutes and all Mr. Brookeris doing is touting another absolute. 

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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    I’m all for recasting questions, but I’m dead set against woo. Frankly, I’m with Charlie; I don’t see "spirituality" as a good thing when it is equated with woo. How do you define "spirituality"? It’s clearly something other than what I understand by it. I get teary at a good sunset, but I certainly wouldn’t make a religion out of it…

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