Here's the deal, Oprah: you don't make sense anymore. No, I don't mean that in the sense of any larger cultural context, I mean that quite literally. You've been speaking a LOT lately and you've gone all Robert Downey Jr on us. Babbling in long sentences about cerebral-sounding concepts that sound OK when they're all strung together and coming out of your mouth, but when we try to break them down into something we can understand on a more concrete level everything falls apart - and that leaves me wondering whether you're actually that much more attuned to, oh, the cosmic, vibratory frequencies of mother earth than the rest of us groundlings OR if you're just completely full of it and enjoying the sound of your own voice.
I mean, maybe I'm a grinch for hoping her OWN network fails, (OH - and title is REDUNDANT, by the way - The Oprah Winfrey Network Network, right?) but when she issues statements like this to the Television Critics Association during a press tour..........I get the feeling she really thinks that she and her redundant Network Network are the next coming of Christianity. Basically.
Here's a snippet:
“So the evolving of consciousness is really what I’m about but I’m not telling people that’s what it is. All of us are here to become more of who we are, of who you really were born to be. Every single one of us in this room has that. That is how we are all equal, because I was born to be who the creator intended, whether you believe in the creator or not. Whatever you believe put you here, you were born to perform the highest expression of that coming. That is my goal as my personal self and it is also my goal to help other people see that in themselves. I fully understand that this platform that I have been given is a gift.”
What the--?
OH - and apparently someone asked her whether she watches television herself. The answer: I think it's a "hell no - !" but in OprahSpeak that reads like this:
"I don't want all that energy coming into my space; I want to control the energy coming into my space."
So the fools who couch surf over to her Network Network to watch Dr Phil or Dr Laura or Gayle King or one of her "Oprah All-Stars" or whatever are all basically just energy whores who aren't becoming all that our creator intended. We're allowing unregulated energy to come into our space, which is certainly part of what's keeping us from performing the highest expression of our own coming.
And I mean that in the least dirty way possible.
See - it's not just that I'm not part of the "Oprah Generation" (which is true, I'm not - I'm at LEAST a dozen years too young to have that "we grew up together, me, the remote control, the bunny ears, and Oprah did" mentality), it's that this entire venture is SOOOO self-indulgent to launch at a moment in history when television viewership is declining. It's an expensive gamble, and the TV Grinch in me thinks - "she could have poured all of that cash into her school in Africa." Or "she could have donated that to any number of charities," or, "She could have given that to ME." Because in an era of webernet TV watching, we don't NEED another expensive network to force feed us Suze Orman platitudes or some show called "Big Bowl of Love" or allow Dr Phil's moustache any more airtime.....
It feels selfish.
Sure, I get that she's a shrewd business person with more money than the catholic church. More than she can spend or donate in a lifetime. So why is she doing something that's been DONE TO DEATH? Television made her famous, television is her platform, television is what made her. So WHY, on the one hand, does she flippantly admit not to watch it at all, while turning around and inflicting more of it on us - on us wee little common folk who are squealing to be allowed to choose cable channels a'la carte, us plebeians who would prefer Netflix to give us more "Watch Instantly" options, us peons who are arresting our childrens' attention spans with too much time in front of the television...
America does not NEED another television network.
America needs salvation from the Comcast monopoly. From the current glut of "Real Housewives" storming the airwaves. From any show that revolves around Cakes That Cannot Be Eaten. From Little House on the Prairie reruns. From the likes of Doctor Phil.
America does not need another television network.
And Oprah needs to tone down the rhetoric. Because she's not making any sense.
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