tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post169554783304075553..comments2024-03-02T17:35:58.818-08:00Comments on Spike is Best: OPaul Stilwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-70492773285388922272009-06-07T00:25:52.903-07:002009-06-07T00:25:52.903-07:00Some excellent food for thought.
"Someone wh...Some excellent food for thought.<br /><br />"Someone who is Everyone is someone who is no one."<br /><br />"...what's most interesting is that there is no Oprah at all."<br /><br />That to me, gets to the dynamic of popular figures who greatly influence the general culture.<br /><br />Notice how disciples of self-help gurus become, in turn, self-help gurus themselves. The one thing Oprah sells is, well, Oprah. She becomes the reflection that people are, at core, uneasy with when looking at themselves (could the uneasiness be due to something completely different? They don't think on it for more than minutes); but to see the reflection as not only affirming in a popular figure, but as being the shared uncomfortable basis that is going somewhere and getting better, ever on the verge of the truly new, that is nearly irresistible - to those who have already decided it's all going to come from their own efforts.<br /><br />And it's funny, how when one becomes acutely conscious of living the Good Life (Get the most out of...), one's actual unique, life experience becomes as nil.<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, and for reading the blog. Come anytime; it's open house.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-64609570650992864582009-06-06T12:03:02.944-07:002009-06-06T12:03:02.944-07:00Someone who is Everyone is someone who is no one. ...Someone who is Everyone is someone who is no one. Her newly invented religion, which now has millions of adherents, I understand, is based on Being Everyone. <br /><br />Perhaps when one has gained all the economic power one can imagine, and now all the political power as well (via her anointee Obama), there is no power left to gain except God's. But that's not the most interesting thing about the phenomenon of Oprah; what's most interesting is that there is no Ophrah at all. People who write about her (as your post quotes) are knocking on the door of a house where no one is home.<br /><br />I have just discovered your blog, by the way. I quite like it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com