There's no shortage of drivel on TV, so it is a cause for some celebration when any source of it expires. Today we celebrate the last episode of the fetid Oprah Winfrey show. No more Oprahgasms.
She is an enabler of apathy and a shepherd for the ignornant masses. She is a self-absorbed hypocrite who "does good" for others only for the tax benefits and for the adoration she receives. Don't get me wrong: I think everyone does everything only for selfish reasons, but she refuses to admit it.
She once gave everyone in her audience a car.
A car? That's like just selling pollution! Why not just give them cash? Why not open a savings account for each of them? Why not pay for the education of their children?
She tells people what to eat and read, and how to act. She removes the responsibility that people should assume for their actions. Oprah told me to do it!
A wise colleague of mine once told me about "Generation O." These are people who think that, if they wish hard enough and try hard enough, then they can get anything.
Bullshit! Some people just haven't got what it takes. And all the wishful thinking in the world will do nothing to change that.
She narcissitically appears on the cover of every issue of her own magazine.
She enables whack-jobs like Tom Cruise.
And if you listen closely to her advice, all you'll really hear is the standard propaganda meant to distract people from how fucked up our world is.
While she gives away a lot of money, she's still worth billions. If she really gave a shit about people, she wouldn't spent as much on her own things, and instead invest in worthwhile things. Her salary is well over $300 million per year. That comparable to the total amount of funding for cancer research in Canada.
Think about that. Oprah's salary could double Canada's capacity to do cancer research.
Her net worth this year is $2.7 billion. Who needs that much money? How many lives could she save? Of course, she doesn't give a rat's ass about that.
She could easily have simplified her show, cut costs, and diverted costs to things that matter. Does she need several homes, at least one of which cost $50 million? Her posh school for girls in Africa cost $40 million, even though she could have started a dozen schools if she had been willing to give them what they need and skip the insane luxuries. But she's a useless moron, so she built them a palace instead of a school.
She once wrote: "I really do not trust buying carbon offsets." Wow. That's soooo fucking ignorant.
Bottom line: Oprah is a cheap drug who mindfucks people into complacency by making them think they matter, and that they can have whatever they want for free.
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