Dr. Phil.
Once “a panacea to a troubled nation too disabused of religion to turn to the gods, yet searching enough to need a sermon on the Mount.”
Dr. Phil.
Once “the afternoon appointment with voyeurism you could feel good about.”
Dr. Phil.
Now “racists and counter-racists, fatists and fatties, homophobes and angry lesbians — up together in a temple of confrontational mental health.”
“And it’s not just the guests that have changed.
“It’s not that these people don’t require help, but the program seems much less about help and more about punishment.
“When did Phil earn the purchase on parading the wicked?
“He is supposedly the voice of middle class whiteys with a faith in science. But though I still fit that demographic, I no longer feel like he speaks for me. And it’s not me who’s changed.” [more]