I think I heard something similar…in Peckinpah’s Cross of Iron.
I think I must be part of the stupidist movement because for the longest time I kept thinking, "Why is everyone going on about this stupidist movement thingy? they aren’t addressing the OP at all and even the OP is joining in on it… wth???
Then… I saw the thread title again and got it. I honestly read it as stupidest the first time!
Oooh, I hadn’t even thought about the secret. They take all the silliness of every new age movement and combine it with hard core laziness. The only thing they actually do is buy an occasional book on the subject.
Sadly, it is invariably both free and plentiful.
Pick-up artists. Does that shit work on anyone with an ounce of self-worth?
Christmas shoppers, especially those who herd into malls.
Taking Children Seriously. I joined the mailing list years ago out of curiosity. A six-year-old still in diapers. An entire family with lice because the youngest refuses to let his mother use the special shampoo on him. (So everyone keeps getting reinfected)
The website looks like it’s out of date, so maybe it’s moved, but it was creepy.
The anti-adoption movement
“An entire movement, it turns out–fighting with a primal passion to expose what activists insist is adoption’s darker side: The lifelong trauma of women coerced into surrendering babies. Adoptees denied their heritage. And, they say, a billion-dollar industry that focuses more on money than youngsters’ welfare.”
You sort of left out a big piece of the puzzle for the no shampoo movement. The deal is your hair produces an over abundance of oil in direct response to you stripping it with harsh shampoos daily. If you switch to just using conditioner (what they recommend!), there is, of course a period of adjustment wherein your hair can get a little greasy. The oil producing will subside substantially after a few weeks. From them on, you can wash your hair infrequently, using far less product, at far less expense and your hair will be beautiful and indistinguishable from anyone else.
No, I am not an adherent, but you somewhat unfairly characterized the whole idea quite badly.
I forgot about that one! Yeah that is totally fucking crazy.
Washing it less often than every day is far different than washing it never.
And I wouldn’t say it’s “far less” expense. I wash and condition my long thick hair every day and the cost is negligible. And I’m poor.
Actually the Fifth’s middle movements are somewhat related to the bookends if you listen well enough, whereas I can’t find any such similarities in the Ninth. Haven’t listened to either for awhile, though, so I can’t point to anything specific.
Bahahaha! They win “Most Deserving of What They Get” :smack:
Freegans. Flat Earthers. Chemical-free.
Agree, but there is only a slight lead ahead of climate change deniers.
Criticise shampoo-free all you like, but the proof is in the pudding, it works. My hair is better than ever, and though I’ve never had acne, other people have said it has said going-shampoo free has helped with it.
Granted, it is not for all people, the white-vinegar really fades dyed hair quicker than shampoo.
Now I’ll try to play devil’s advocate for the other suggestions.
The pickup-artist movement… it motivates people to improve themselves, it helps get people what gives them pleasure, and some women actually like men like that.
The Secret™, I know I’ll get a lot of flack for defending it, but when you cut through all the woo, it’s just teaching people to set goals and focus their effort to achieve them.
Radical Honesty is very offputing to strangers, but when people acclimatise to it, they can reach a new level of closeness, trust and emotional intimacy.
Adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ the Scientist, and other faith-healing groups do sometimes put themselves at risk by avoiding treatment, but many medical treatments are not as effective as having a healthy lifestyle and being optimistic about being healed, things which Christian “Science” followers are encouraged to have by their religion. However, if more people act like them, the lack of herd-immunity would make infectious disease a real problem.
Taking Children Seriously looks extremely stupid, and it looks simply seductive enough to grow into a huge problem.
Nobody has mentioned the Tea Party?
Come on, this thread has reached the second page without partisan sniping.
No— the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. That always gets misquoted.
Why? Satanism pings my stupidometer too. (Like so much else in life… so much stupid, so little time.)
It is nothing of the sort, and you know it as well as I. It’s pure sleaze. Eeww.
Nice spin, but the problem with it is that its modest little core of reality-based usefulness, with its finite applicability under some conditions, is blown up into the universal and sole panacea for everything, which is the stupid.
Nice in theory, but in practice, it’s just another way to feel self-righteous about being a dickhead. Of course, Satanism would endorse this.
Come on, Old Scratch! You’re taking it seriously?
Antivaxers are too easy. My choice for flamingly stupidist movement are Urine Therapy Believers.
Now you might ask, what sort of wackaloon would drink his body’s waste products as a health tonic?
Bet you didn’t know that since antiquity, learned sages have been disgusting their family and friends by slurping down their own urine, which dispels disease, maintains a full head of hair and discourages wanton women. 
There have been at least three World Urine Therapy Conferences where practitioners and users share recipes and secrets. And there are testimonies from cancer patients.
No! Don’t do it! It’s like wrestling a pig - you’ll get filthy and the pig will just enjoy it. You’ll be pummeled by logical fallacies and Gish-galloped until you scream for a commercial break.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Well put Johanna.