So I’m on the subway, and I notice an ad for “Supreme Master Television”, advertising their new launch to ten different free-to-air satellites circling the world. There’s a logo, kind of like two S’s interlaced. There’s a picture of a rather severe lady with fake photoshopped blonde hair (her eyebrows are brown) talking on a cellphone. There’s a website, www.suprememastertv.com.
So… who are these guys anyways?
A religion? How can they afford that much satellite time? Do they want to vacuum my wallet? Fill my computer with malware if I check out their website? Are they something more innocuous but a victim of bad translation?
But they’re doing an incredibly-bad job of advertising it. The ad doesn’t actually say anything about the tenets of the religion, or even that it is a religion. It doesn’t say, “Come in and feel inner peace” or “save the tigers” or “do this and be better than all those unenlightened schmucks” or “group hug!!!” or anything. And no-one seems to have told them that advertising “the supreme master” has all sorts of negative connotations among the children of Europe.
Yeah, I know. I had to actually do a little digging to find out anything other than the fact that Supreme Master TV was the world’s only international satellite all-positive television channel. I mean, what the hell does “positive” mean in this context? If you don’t know that, it doesn’t really mean anything.
I had never heard of her (yes, the Supreme Master is a woman) until now, but I read about a meeting to talk about her Quan Yin Method of meditation next week in Indianapolis. The more things get newly weird, the more they remain weird. I don’t know how to say that in French.
I have nothing to say about her philosophy, but she’s cuter than the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
