Increasingly popular with Gen Z audiences, manifestation content has also spread rapidly on platforms like TikTok and Instagram—the latest iteration of the “law of attraction” that promotes the use of “positive frequencies” and “delusional thinking” to attract wealth and prosperity into one’s life. Rather than claw their way up the corporate ladder or surreptitiously stash away money for the future, practices like project 129 and the 3-6-3 method emphasize positive thinking and visualization to achieve personal and financial goals.
Yeah, no, that was big when I was young too, and when my mother was young, and when my grandparents were young it was called prayer, and so on.
Yeah the author lists these things unironically like we didn’t grow up with daily horoscopes in the newspaper, and TV psychics, and church.
Young people turn to magical thinking disguised as scientific practice because they’re still young and haven’t experienced every type of predatory pseudoscience yet. What’s the excuse for the older generations who are completely immersed in and even promote this kind of con?
Yeah, no, that was big when I was young too, and when my mother was young, and when my grandparents were young it was called prayer, and so on.
Yeah the author lists these things unironically like we didn’t grow up with daily horoscopes in the newspaper, and TV psychics, and church.
Young people turn to magical thinking disguised as scientific practice because they’re still young and haven’t experienced every type of predatory pseudoscience yet. What’s the excuse for the older generations who are completely immersed in and even promote this kind of con?