The rant is fine. Actually, you probably know this already, but popular interest in the Kabbalah isn't new. There was a similar spate of gentile interest in the 19th century. I seem to remember Conan Doyle even worked it into one of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Well, that was the whole 19th century mystic revival (there was a similar movement to the 1960s New Age crap in the mid 19th century to the late 19th century, for those of you who don't know.) Another crappy counter-cultural thing, that fizzled out. You know, Grand Order of the Hermetic Dawn, the Aryan race (this is when it comes from actually) which originated in Thule. The secrets of Atlantis. All sorts of pseudo-mystic crap.
And as I recall, you're right. But I can't recall which story. (Big Conan Doyle fan here, btw.)