Only one argument need be made: Fortune telling is part of being a Nazi . Hitler employed psychics for assistance with political decisions. This fact alone should raise a red flag regarding the non-existent logic of fortune telling.
And, while we're on the subject of politics, let's talk about the most notorious American figure associated with this inane practice – Nancy Reagan. She employed a variety of psychics and allegedly had special phone lines installed in the White House connected to her governmental advisors. Her husband's supply-side economics already stole from the poor to give to the rich, so can we justify $3.99 for the first minute and 99¢ for each additional minute of the taxpayer's money? Might it have been better spent on, say, attempting to narrow the gap between rich and poor her husband was hell bent on widening at the time? No wonder people are a tad suspect of America 's jingoistic attempts to institute our political system in any nation we can get our hands on.
No really, Nancy, are you sure that the moon crossing over Jupiter during the Hands Across America celebration says that this whole ‘Just Say No' campaign will really keep kids off drugs?
These self-professed psychics have a lot of explaining to do if they really can predict the future. There are a lot of problems that should have been foreseen, such as how we let the whole jam band genre slip through the cracks and provide a soundtrack for an army of suburban neo-hippies.
I wonder what the cosmos thinks of them profiting from their “gift”? Perhaps my understanding of the metaphysical world is skewed, but I would think that it is at least independent of the American economic system, if not the complete antithesis of it. If the cosmos does understand the cold, hard hand of the market, then I'm way off.
How do we account for the infinite amount of entirely baseless predictions that have been made by such psychics? I think the apocalypse has been imminent at least a few times already in my life. Unfortunately, people tend to remember those things that confirm their beliefs and conveniently forget those that don't. Let's say a “psychic” technically only has to work around a 10 percent accuracy rate to impress people, meaning one relatively accurate prediction can negate nine wrong ones.
We're already bombarded with advertisements for products which promise one thing and do another, so naturally we assume that if at least some of the garbage we consume produces the desired result, we're doing pretty good. Isn't it enough that we're subject to messages implying that, for instance, Herbal Essence shampoo is orgiastic? Must we also believe that there is a certain “chosen” subset of the population endowed with a sixth sense that screw things up and make boatloads of cash while doing it?
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