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Pssst...It's A
Secret
By Rip Rense
RipRense.com
4-26-7
- I'm sitting in a little tea joint
in Westwood right now, and a guy has just walked in---waddled in,
really---who preceeds himself. Which is to say, his stomach enters the room
before he does. He is dressed in a giant hooded sweatshirt which was yellow
but is now closer to brown, and jeans that have not been washed or perhaps
changed since Bush first stole the presidency. He has a beard that was also
yellow but is now closer to brown, and he exudes the sour smell of old socks
on a hot day.
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- This man does not know The Secret.
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- A woman just passed by on the
sidewalk outside. One of her legs is twisted and about half the size of the
other, and she walks with a kind of hobble-hitch, hobble-hitch rhythm that
Stravinsky would have liked. Her face is pained, defensive.
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- She obviously does not know The
Secret, either.
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- My friend Craig, who is drinking
tea with me, also does not know The Secret. When people bump into him and
fail to say "excuse me," or do not move to one side on a sidewalk, it
bothers him. Same for my pal, Jenn. She's a brilliant, modest UCLA grad
student who just wants to study and learn, yet she keeps running into fellow
grad students trying to push her around, drawing her into ego games. It
annoys the hell out of her.
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- And I sure as hell don't know The
Secret. I am the most irritated person I know. Well, next to Dick Cheney. I
can't stand the way most people drive, speak, think, dress, write, sing,
tell jokes. The gluttonous manner in which humans exploit this paradise
disgusts me. Pretty much everybody I admire is dead, sick, or worse,
unpopular. Oh, and I hate the way everyone says "stu-dent" and "impor-dunt."
Guess that about covers it.
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- The funny thing about The Secret,
though, is that it is no secret. It was the top of the New York Times
bestseller list, which is the greatest measure of what poorly educated
people who cannot read very well are buying. And it has been touted by no
less a personage than Oprah Winfrey, who tells poorly educated people who
cannot read very well what to read.
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