Derren Brown
Wikipedia
NPR Segment on Brown
I'm A Magician and Seeing Isn't Always Believing
Well now...
What, prithee, do you think of this fellow? https://www.ted.com/talks/derren_brown_mentalism_mind_reading_and_the_art_of_getting_inside_your_head?subtitle=en&geo=es
Is Derren Brown a genuine psychic, pretending he's not a psychic?
Is he a man who made a pact with Satan?
Seriously.
What's going on here?
What can possibly - realistically - be going on here?
Is he simply telling the truth?
Can we all "do this" were we to "open" our minds and sensors?
I'm stymied.
I can't even speculate in any meaningful way.
Unless, of course, he's telling the truth...
... and we can "all" do this?
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I have a friend who believes every preachment of QAnon, a self-professed "Christian" woman who thinks Trump can do no wrong.
When I send Karen this video, she will -- and this is my prediction -- believe that Darren Brown is a devious (perhaps satanic) trickster, even though, in her own life, she has surrendered totally to the egregious trickery of Malignant Messiah and "The Word of God" as uttered by QAnon(sense).
I venture that Karen will excoriate Derren Brown.
Unlike The Liar (and his "Ministry of Falsehood") who give Karen exactly what she wants -- i.e., the "felt conviction" that her (supposedly) literal interpretation of Christianity is incontrovertibly true -- Brown provides no such comfort.
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Mentalist Derren Brown is immeasurably more impressive than The Consolidated Trump/QAnon Bullshit Machine; the chief difference being that Brown does nothing to reinforce Karen's existential need to believe that she -- and her bizarre interpretations of Christianity, cheek-by-jowl with white nationalist politics -- are ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
In fact, Mentalist Brown, by making no (apparent) attempt to profit from his "prophecies," calls into question Trump (and QAnon) if only because they are "always on the make" -- for money, power, or both.
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All evidence -- and evidence is vast -- indicates that Trump does not have a religious bone in his body; does not pray except to mumble the de rigeur triviality, "God bless America"; and has not even read the New Testament, much less the Old.
However, our Liar-Cheat-Felon-Seditionist is a consummate liar - a compulsive liar - and his endless torrent of lies are dedicated to telling the "poorly educated" (which is how he refers to them) whatever they want to hear.
The fundamental quest of gullible people who never learned to think critically (nor to conduct proper research) is to keep their mostly self-generated fears at bay.
They do this by believing the consoling lies offered up by designated "authority figures."
Nor does it hurt that white, nationalist "Christians" prefer authorities who are strong men, ever ready to crush opposition with their hobnailed boots.
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Thus the fearful, the gullible, and the quintessentially needy are satisfied with a constant diet of bullshit, worshipping their idol and justifying his shortcomings as if His Malignancy were "the second coming" of King David.
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