That Guardian Gwyneth Paltrow story is super relevant because it highlights the different universes, not worlds, the elite live in.

In 2020, for 99% of the planet, breaking down =emotional collapse at loss of loved one, livelihood, home.

For Paltrow it meant eating bread.

We live in a world where that disparity is not only stark and factual but the media have so normalised it that theyre asking us to share our feelings when we watched family members die because that's the same kind of bad as poor Gwyneth having to eat bread in her mansion

This isn't even about Gwyneth Paltrow, just the completely obscene inequalities in what seems to be a now global facsimile of the pre French Revolution setup where the ultra rich are treated as victims by media because the meal only had 6 courses while people ration food outside

Once again, it's really NOT about Paltrow. It's about the situation, mass media, how it's owners use a tesseract of pure cynicism to add value in this situation to only themselves. Mass media owners, the true shapers of public opinion are more part of the elite than even Paltrow

The more I think about it, the more I feel like there's a good bit of truth in here too. I don't doubt this being an aded angle was very much part of the rationale of the verbiage. Gonna leave the thread up because I think the larger point stands. https://twitter.com/katierowboat/status/1391847078528176132