Watching the world’s political and media elites run for their lives from a four-course ballroom meal in Washington D.C. this weekend felt a little like a scene from The Hunger Games.
They were decked out in ball gowns and black ties and prepared to make jokes about the broken world they’ve helped create.
These are the people that either did not report on Jeffrey Epstein or protected him and his ilk from prosecution. They gathered to eat cake, when a gunman opened fire, they grabbed wine bottles and ran.
We are relieved that no one was seriously hurt but it is hard to feel the same outrage about this event as it is about, say, a school shooting or a school bombing.
Can someone remind the media of that? They are acting personally targeted and victimized and using their megaphone to amplify their own terror.
But don’t they know? In The Hunger Games, one can only live safely for so long in the Capitol before the class reckoning destroys the facade.
And let me be clear: no matter the gunman’s agenda, we don’t support it. We also don’t buy whatever the media tells us it is.
This was not that reckoning, but it was a glimpse of something. Like a scene from The Dark Knight. Thugs descending on the party of corrupt politicians.
And for all the breathless coverage, all the declarations of trauma and targeting, there’s a quiet, uncomfortable truth underneath it: Most people are simply relieved no one was seriously hurt…and then moved on.
In a world of starvation, genocide, war and deceit, it’s hard to shed tears for the bourgeoisie.
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