My Brave Stance Against Hypnotists

Recently, I happened across a Ted Talk called “Is Hypnosis Fake?”. I’m a real sucker for Ted Talks so I watched the full 26 minute video. Here’s the thing, I went into the video believing that hypnosis is BS and I came out of the video even more hardcore against hypnotists. That clearly was not the point of the video. I wanted this hypnotist/professional liar to change my mind and instead he just hammered home my previously established beliefs. I mean usually these Ted Talks give some type of reasonable argument in favor of what they are preaching but nope this dude SUCKED. I won’t even post the video. I ain’t giving no fraud any free views.

Now listen, I am well aware that the majority of people probably hold a similar opinion to my own and thus you’re all wondering why I’m even writing this blog. Like what next Daniel are you going to try to convince everyone that pizza is good? No. No I’m not. That’s Buzzfeed’s job.

The true impetus behind this blog is that I came to the realization that we are all too polite to hypnotists. It just doesn’t make any sense. Most people are skeptical of hypnosis but yet anyone that is unfortunate enough to find themselves on a hypnotist’s stage ends up playing along. And when you “just play along” with a hypnotist it’s not fucking passive either. You get roped on stage and next thing you know you are barking on command to entertain a group of strangers and not embarrass a man with a goatee and a suit vest.

So why does this bother me? Well we don’t do this for comedians (big comedy guy here). No, we heckle comedians regularly if they have any lulls in their set. We don’t do this for magicians (even bigger magic guy here). Nope, we spend the entire magician’s set praying that they slip up just a bit so that we can call them the fuck out. Oh boy do we root against magicians. And those dudes aren’t even pretending that what they do is real. They openly admit it’s all slight of hand and tricks to delight people and provide an escape from the misery of reality. But no that’s not good enough for us. We want their heads on a stick or we’re going home a bit unsatisfied. And yet we protect the fucking hypnotists who parade around like the “magic” they are doing is the real deal. We go on meowing like cats and singing like Britney Spears because we don’t want to hurt the poor hypnotist’s feelings.

Nahhhhhhhh. I’m out on this. It’s time to start being mean to hypnotists. Pressure makes diamonds and if you are on stage and that shit isn’t working then you better not fake it. It’s why magicians are so damn good. If we just start being mean to hypnotists then they are going to have to figure out how to make this shit real and then we’re all in for a damn good show. And to be totally honest,  if we were just meaner to these guys at an earlier age then maybe they wouldn’t even get into hypnosis in the first place. They could just throw a suit over that vest and get into finance like every other liar.