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Thursday 6 August 2020

Low-grade interview



Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has said she is suffering from "low-grade depression" because of the pandemic, racial injustice and the "hypocrisy" of the Trump administration...

"These are not, they are not fulfilling times, spiritually," Mrs Obama said. "I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression.

"Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting."


Sounds like a low-grade interview too. It is not easy to understand public demand for vacuous celebrity chatter but Mrs Obama also creates an impression of deep and abiding political malice. Clearly there is public demand for that too.

4 comments:

Graeme said...

The poor dear! Hasn't she made enough money yet?

Sam Vega said...

I think it's the weaponisation of fake distress. We've seen a lot of it lately. People so offended by a scientist's joke, or a design on another scientist's shirt, that they can't rest until one is sacked and the other makes a tearful apology. People so upset by a death in custody thousands of miles away that their urge to get a new pair of trainers suddenly overcomes them.

Crying is what children do when they can't get their way. Demonstrating your distress so that someone else fixes things for you.



Scrobs. said...

'Low grade depression'...

Not much more than a small dent then?

Arrange these words into a well known phrase'Monkeys who a cares'!

A K Haart said...

Graeme - I think she would prefer billions over millions.

Sam - we have seen a lot of it lately and it leaves me feeling a little queasy because millions must lap it up.

Scrobs - the trouble lies in the number of people who do seem to care and do believe that she is a person of integrity.