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Originally Posted by Jenson71
Why do you think the Self-Help/Improve your life with 7 secrets stuff is so big now? At least, it seems like it's big NOW. But I may have not noticed it before or was too young to know.
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I think most of it is a cultural leftover from the 1960s. Now the children of the hippies are growing up, and they've been exposed to this sort of New Age thinking for a long time. Some of them are going on to found prosperity/success theories loosly based in the New Age philosophy from the 60s while others are just consumers primed for consumption by being raised in such an environment.
This sort of bullshit, pseudo-religious mysticism has all the depth of a kiddie pool and has always been one of my major pet peeves.