TOM BEERS,"A FEW TO MANY" BEMOANS THE FACT THAT OPRAH WILL NO LONGER BE AROUND TO TELL AMERICA WHAT THEY SHOULD BE READING.
THIS IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH AMERICA. DO WE NEED SOMEONE TO TELL US EVERYTHING TO DO. WAS OPRAH'S TELLING US WHAT TO READ "AN ENTITLEMENT", SOMETHING PROVIDED FREE WHICH WE HAVE BECOME UNABLE TO SURVIVE WITHOUT?
WILL THE LITERARY WORLD DISAPPEAR AS MILLIONS WANDER THE EARTH WONDERING IF THEY SHOULD EVEN LOOK AT THE DUST COVER OF A BOOK WITH OUT THE OPRAH'S BLESSING.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS AND READING IS, AS MR. BEERS STATES DECLINING. THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS FOR THIS IN MY SMALL MINDS EYE. THERE ARE MANY POORER READERS AND POOERE THINKERS IN THE WORLD TODAY, WITH ALL OF THE VISUAL STIMULUS (iPODS, iPADS, X BOXES, WEI'S) WE ARE LOSING OUR IMAGINATIONS, INSTANT GRATIFICATION, NO ONE WANTS TO DO A BIT OF THEIR OWN RESEARCH AND MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS, READING TAKES TIME, PERHAPS SOME THOUGHT, THE ABILITY TO INTERPRET THE WRITTEN WORD AND HEAVEN FORBID MAKE UP OUR OWN MINDS WITHOUT SOME ONE TELLING US WHETHER A BOOK IS GOOD OR BAD.
IT SEEMED AS IF WHEN THE OPRAH GAVE A BOOK HER BLESSING IT WAS A CARDINAL SIN TO DISAGREE WITH THE GOLDEN PROCLAMATION.
I WAS WONDERING ABOUT MAKING UP FALSE A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND AND LIVING AMONG THE LOW LIFE'S IN SOCIETY AND SPENDING TIME IN SOME OF AMERICA'S MOST DEPLORABLE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS (JAILS) AND SEEING IF THE OPRAH COULD FIND PASSION IN HER HEART FOR MY EXPERIENCES AND MAKE IT A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. UNFORTUNATELY SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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