I don’t follow this type of events, but there’s no escaping these pictures - main news in the tabloid press and social media this morning.
The grotesque display of designer creations vomit-inducing outfits are a great example of what’s wrong with our world. My first impression was the scene at yesterday’s Met Gala matches the description of the ‘Hunger Games’ Capitol, the ruling city where the people’s lives are so empty they abandon themselves to outlandish fashions and extreme body modifications. But we’re actually worse, because in the dystopian trilogy the impoverished citizens of the districts had no idea about life in the Capitol. We do! And far from being offended, we approve of it.
If you look at the above picture there are idiots who actually waited outside to see ‘the elite’ parading in their mega-expensive pieces of crap. People who watched on TV, livestreams, Instagram - the sheep enjoy this sort of display.
There’s a strong voyeuristic component to this unnatural fascination with the lives of the ‘privileged’. And I don’t mean the guys jerking off to images of a starlet’s deformed butt. I mean everybody, men, women and (unfortunately, too many) teenagers finding pleasure in watching others engaging in the sort of activities they won’t ever be able to afford. I’ve always wondered why millions of low to middle-class sheep enjoy following the lives of the wealthy, and I think it’s no different than a frustrated loner spying on a couple having sex in a parked car. He’d like to do that, too, but since he’s obviously lacking something (a partner, at least) he derives pleasure from watching and imagining how good it must feel.
Just like the idiots scrolling on their feeds imagine how great in must be to afford tons of cosmetic surgeries and having ‘designers’ dressing you in the most unbelievable costumes. Just as the idiots fantasize about living in a Kardashian mansion, having a walk-in dressing room or make it ten walk-in dressing rooms. Absolutely orgasmic!
The 'Hunger Games' fashion is comparatively tame...
On the other hand, according to the dictionary, voyeuristic also means:
'deriving or relating to enjoyment from seeing the pain or distress of others.'
I wonder if this applies to the others, to the 1%, or even less, as not all those who are rich have a say in world politics or economy. The Rothschilds, Rockefeller, Soros, Kock brothers - do you think they find pleasure in watching the 99% struggling with their lives? Do you think they find pleasure driving by a McDonalds and seeing the morbidly obese in their overstretched plastic clothes stuffing themselves to an early grave? Do they feel something stirring down there when they read about the millions who are drowning in debts? It must be fascinating for them…
I don’t know if you’ve seen this in the news, it was barely mentioned, but a 14 year old boy was killed last week in the failed coup in Venezuela. I don’t know if there were any pictures of the funeral and the distraught mother, which is a pity as I’m sure it’s the sort of thing that gives guys like Bolton a hard-on!
If you think I'm exaggerating, you can find more pictures here and here, just don't blame me if they make you sick.
And, by the way, I take it this gala was a fundraiser for an art musueum, which somehow means these people pass for modern day patrons of the art... sort of 21st century Medicis...oh, well...
