rant · moment 14 of 25
Dark Psychic Forces vs. Real Policy Problems
from 160 - The Ballad of The Fat Girl With The Clean Car · #160
5 min
Tim critiques Williamson's mystical framing of politics as childish given complex problems like automation, while comparing her rhetoric to a drunk Upper East Side liberal from a Woody Allen movie.
- Tim imagines an astrology-based foreign policy where the president gives everyone a month off if Mercury isn't retrograde.
- Rich white people who've never set foot on planet Earth are fun to be around because they have no idea what they're talking about.
- Goldie Hawn's character in Everybody Says I Love You gives a speech to the NYPD about prisoners designing their own cells with European decorators.
- Marianne Williamson's framework of dark psychic forces is a childish, Lord of the Rings approach to real problems.
- The actual challenge is figuring out what to do with sixty percent of the workforce that will become irrelevant soon, not battling psychic forces.
- Williamson was right that policy wonks aren't the whole answer, but wrong to blame dark psychic forces instead of engaging real complexity.
- Tim compares Williamson to a drunk woman at a party ranting about racism and the dark psychic force while her husband begs her to eat something.
- People prefer fun figures like Trump and Williamson over people with actual solutions because they find them entertaining.
- Whatever comes next won't be human, so this is humanity's last dance and we might as well bring in the clowns.
- Tim hopes Williamson wins so the Oval Office becomes a séance with everyone waving Harry Potter wands.
Marianne WilliamsonGoldie HawnBernie SandersElizabeth WarrenWoody Allen