Online Cult of Oprah Guides Users to the Light

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We never cease to be amazed by Oprah’s power and pervasiveness in the culture. She can hang out with liars and just generally unpleasant people and still come out of the association reeking of rosebuds. And she’s probably the only woman in the world who can get away with putting her own face on her own magazine every month without looking like a narcissist or a dictator. Do you get how amazing that is?

Anyway, Oprah has launched a 10-week class to promote a book called A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purposes. The class is entirely online and free to take. The first session, which went down last night, pulled in over 700,000 fawning Oprahlytes hungry for “East-West-hybrid mysticism.” Future sessions will take place every Monday.

Homegirl could brand a Bible and change every third word to “chewbacca” and she’d still come out of it making more money than Easter Island.

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