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(Last shoe post of the week, I promise.)
On yesterday’s show, Oprah discussed “freegans,” or otherwise normal people who dig through dumpsters in search of food and other goods. Ick.
The interviewee, an executive named Madeleine Nelson, earns a six-figure salary but hasn’t purchased clothes for three years and spends less than $20 a week on the few groceries that she can’t find in the trash.
Oprah seemed to encourage the alternative lifestyle during her chat with Madeleine and special correspondent Lisa Ling:
Madeleine: Consumerism is really driven by corporations who make lots and lots of money –
Oprah: By getting us to buy things.
Madeleine: By getting us to buy things.
Lisa: Oprah, the freegans believe, in a way, we are slaves to buying and consumerism –
Oprah: But we are. We are, are we not?
Yes, damn the man and their enslavement of us through pretty, pretty things! Oprah really drove the point home by wearing a seemingly brand-new pair of Christian Louboutin pumps — identified by their telltale red soles — during the interview.
Maybe they were one of the 21 pairs that Jessica Seinfeld sent her as a thank-you for promoting her book.
I live in Chicago. I see Oprah rooting through dumpsters all the time. There’s a great big dumpster behind the Dunkin’ Donuts she calls “The Mother Lode.”
Wow! $800 bucks and up for some shoes. They better come with one of the Filipinos that made ‘em.
Whereas buying O Magazine, books from Oprah’s Book Club, and pretty much anything else she mentions on her dumb show, that’s a matter of personal choice. It’s all those OTHER people who are slaves to capitalism.
Welcome to the land of high hypocrisy! How many books and products Oprah had sponsored in the past? The whole “Slave of Consumerism” spiel make her sounds like a slave driver. Soporific words for a melancholic crowd.