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The Cult of Celebrity Worship

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At the Golden Globes the other night, Oprah Winfrey delivered the following speech:

 

It didn’t take long for the “Oprah2020” hashtags to appear all over the internet even though Oprah said nothing remotely presidential. She did address the sexual harassment and abuse issue in Hollywood and the treatment of women in that bastion of sleaze and decadence, and rightly so, to the sounds of applause not only in the room, but all across the country. (Let’s not forget, Hollywood is made up almost entirely of Democrats with far left leanings; they are the quintessential liberals). The only problem is, that most of those people applauding her at the award show are perpetrators of this common Hollywood occurrence, or complicit in these crimes by their silence. The men stood and applauded, in the hopes that none of their accusers will ever come forward. The women stood and applauded, knowing they had kept silent for years allowing these behaviours to continue and effect others.

For the keen observer, we know what this was. The Hollywood elite needed the script flipped and the finger pointed in the other direction, and who better to do that than the widely trusted Oprah Winfrey. She was brought in to publicly name the problem and tell the world that it was going to stop; and Hollywood would lead the charge (even though everyone knows it will never stop and the moral cesspool that is Hollywood will continue to exploit women as long as it stands; it has from the beginning). In doing so, she absolved her Hollywood audience of their sins of commission and sins of omission; she made them appear as if they would be the ones to root out this evil, which ironically, was their own creation.

I think the sight of the well-loved Meryl Streep at these events is the perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy; that same Meryl Streep who to this day praises the directorial abilities of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski and the now shamed and embarrassed Hollywood executive, Harvey Weinstein. Meryl Streep, and almost everyone else in Hollywood knew of the sins of Harvey Weinstein and did nothing, absolutely nothing; and by doing so became complicit in the systemic sexual abuse of women and young men in Hollywood. They opted to preserve their careers over outing the sexual predators in their midst. And we are to now believe that these same people are going to change the moral landscape of their own industry? Only the foolish and naive would believe such an absurdity. (And let’s not forget that Oprah was also a longtime friend of Harvey Weinstein and even one actress has alleged that Oprah knowingly set her up with Weinstein). All these people knew, and all these people kept their mouths shut to preserve their careers.

For the most part, I have no issues with Oprah Winfrey. I think she means well; even though she is the typical rich liberal who thinks the government is the vehicle by which all societal ills should be cured. Like Obama, she would be a terrible President because their similar governing philosophies have always led to failure. We as a society need to stop looking to celebrities to cure what ails us. These people are empty and shallow and tend towards a high level of narcissism. They are not intelligent. They are not truly concerned about the well-being of others. And they are not our moral superiors by any stretch. These are people who play make believe for a living; have high rates of substance abuse; and lead shallow and depraved lives. (Does not the amateur pornstar Kim Kardashian embody the shallowness of our culture and the dim-witted followers who measure her every move?) They do not know what hard work is. Like athletes, celebrities should not be looked up to and their opinions should not hold greater weight than anyone else’s. These people, like Winfrey the other night, grand stand in front of others in order to virtue-signal to those around them that they have the answers that will make everything better. Be not drawn in and brainwashed by the cult of celebrity; do not fall for the shiny veneer of what Hollywood has to offer, because the story that lies beneath it is always ugly and exploitive.

Prediction: Oprah will not be President in 2020. Trump will be re-elected in a landslide.

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