So I followed a crazy chick on Twix and as it turns out, she followed me back.  We’ll need something sufficiently crazy today.

This is my review of Paperback Brewing Santa Was a Werewolf IPA:

You may recall Shannen Michaela from such places as Tik Tok, Instagram, Twix, and OnlyFans.  She is best known for appearing topless while on an mushroom trip, being Australian, advocating birth tourism, Bitcoin, Tradwife culture, doing pushups in unusual positions, and holding a Guinness World Record in foot archery.  I’m totally serious.  The only real controversy is whether her previous grift as an OnlyFans whore is more debasing than her current grift.

So this video came up on my feed (TW: You cannot fix her).

I suppose this is really a thing:

Manifesting is rooted in an older idea, the “law of attraction,” according to which our thoughts determine what we attract in life, be that bad or good things, poverty or riches, illness or health, abusive or nourishing relationships.

Manifesters believe that by thinking positive thoughts, feeling positive emotions, practicing “vibrational alignment,” and “acting as if” they have already achieved their dreams, they can achieve tangible success in the real world, especially becoming rich and famous.

I know what you are thinking.  This is just “fake it until you make it”.  No, this is so much worse.

Manifesters hold those who suffer misfortunes personally responsible for their sufferings. Byrne (2016), for example, suggests that all of life’s calamities are caused by our failure to think positive thoughts.

Joe Vitale, one of the experts who contributed to her book, makes it perfectly clear that the rule of the law of attraction also applies to “events in history where masses of lives were lost” (Byrne, 2016, p. 28).

Following that logic, it was the Jews’ fault that they were killed in Nazi concentration camps because their “thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness” attracted them “to being in the wrong place at the wrong time” (Byrne, 2016, p. 28). Vitale sternly asserts, “Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts” (Byrne, 2016, p. 28).

Since it only took me to read to the second section of the article before the psychology establishment decided to play logical equivalence games with the Holocaust—I’m going to skip to the suggested alternative approach.

Goal setting

When we are focused on a specific, achievable, and tangible goal, our attention and energy will be concentrated on it. Understood that way, a principle most manifesters believe in holds true: Where our attention goes, our energy flows.

Setting concrete goals is a proven strategy for enhancing motivation, self-esteem, self-confidence, and autonomy (Locke & Latham, 2006). It has also been proven to enhance our chances of success (Nowack, 2017).

This is the same shit, isn’t it?

If you don’t want me to believe in sorcery, maybe try something besides pseudoscience to convince me witches don’t exist.

 

This is a hazy IPA crossbred with a New England style.  In effect they want me to accept a hazy, grapefruit rind style IPA while at the same time accepting whatever the Massholes in the craft beer establishment apparently like.  Its the same shit, intense bitterness with a fruity finish—the part of the fruit you’re supposed to throw away.  Though the artwork is fun. Paperback Brewing Santa Was a Werewolf IPA: 1.6/5 7.2% ABV, 60 IBU.