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Monday, March 5, 2007 12:00 AM

Oprah's ugly secret

By continuing to hawk "The Secret," a mishmash of offensive self-help cliches, Oprah Winfrey is squandering her goodwill and influence, and preaching to the world that mammon is queen.
By Peter Birkenhead

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  • Sunday, March 4, 2007 09:39 PM

    Brilliant

    Absolutely brilliant. What an incisive dissection of the fat, fatuous society that was once the envy of the world. Thank you Peter. My God that was a pleasure to read. And let no person suppose that this vacuousness is limited to the feeble-minded or the uneducated or the immature. Au contraire. All around me there are people with degrees surfing this tide of anti-intellectualism and superstitious claptrap. How is it possible to come out the other side of 16 years of schooling and still have no inkling of how to recognise bullshit when you hear it? We are in deep trouble.

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