> Instead? That royal kid and his actress wife. Despair doesn't cover it.
It's funny how the whole story is dripping in the victimization narrative too, proving that you can be literal royalty and claim oppression & injustice.
They're among the most privileged people on the planet, and we're supposed to think this speaks to anything important, especially given the state of the world and immense suffering of average people.
Completely agree. On a more fundamental level, it just annoys me that I should even know who they are. I'm not sure who decides what the story of the day is, but it feels like once there's a consensus, the entire legacy media competes to give the most over-the-top coverage. It's all utterly unfit for purpose.
> it just annoys me that I should even know who they are
Bingo, there's a weird curation of news and pop culture that seeks to fit everything into the media narrative.
So you've got the upper echelon of society portrayed in ways that are supposed to key into the narrative applied to common people, as though there's anything relatable between the two.
Of course, the people that inhabit the media are anything but down-to-earth, so it's an uphill battle already.
They've got their own class bias and relatively monolithic, conformist worldview as a starting point.
As far as anyone can generalize an entire profession like that, it seems like this is the only way to explain the mismatch between society & media.
The conversation doesn't seem to correspond with reality or any sense of proportion.
It's funny how the whole story is dripping in the victimization narrative too, proving that you can be literal royalty and claim oppression & injustice.
They're among the most privileged people on the planet, and we're supposed to think this speaks to anything important, especially given the state of the world and immense suffering of average people.