Wednesday04 Apr 05:23 AM
Slate: The Hostile New Age Takeover Of Yoga
Slate ran an entertaining rant a couple weeks back —jibing with Souljerky sensibilities which are especially well summarized in the article's subtitle.
“There's nothing worse than narcissism posing as humility.”
Ron Rosenbaum, Slate
The author takes an extreme example to illustrate his point. But he transcends the central illustration and achieves critical valence with "popular yoga culture." The piece attacks the idiotic assumptions that we (often) wave under the banner of yoga (along with marketers and most trade-it-in-for-the-yellow-brick-road zombies), without attacking the practice of yoga itself.
May this discernment be an example to us all.
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Photo: Grifted from here.
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Wed 04 Apr 2007 at 07:34AM
Though this piece about fundamentalist yogis is satirical, it would not surprise me if it came to pass with all the excesses of the Yoga scene.
http://yogadawg.blogspot.com/2007/02/yoga-news-fundamentalist-yogis-emerge.html
Wed 04 Apr 2007 at 03:03PM
I think that the author of the Slate article is overreacting a bit. Such articles (about the woman tracking down the long lost friend) are fluff intended to increase circulation.
True, such articles turn off people who want, well, YOGA articles in a Yoga magazine. But I would venture to guess that most readers really aren't that serious about yoga.
Just for fun, scan the articles of, say, a running magazine, and note the amount of pure fluff. :-)
Thu 05 Apr 2007 at 05:58AM
gbSk
dude, why dis? after reading that article i bathed, took all the photos of the women who've hurt me...and burned them. then, instead of flowers i delivered a dimebag of weed to myself.
i feel so much better!
Fri 06 Apr 2007 at 12:20PM
All that creepy syrupy yoga smoga sugar is lost on me. I can't read those rags cause I get cavities.
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