Unreality TV

I’m an unimaginative writer and have trouble with anything approaching clever. I saw a funny post attacking a politician, the writer posing as the tooth fairy (with sharp teeth ha ha). Snip: “Glad I didn’t have to bring up the Tooth Fairy,” you said, standing in a (expletive) cemetery, wearing your Sunday smug, smirking like you just solved poverty by smothering it with a pillow.

I may be a mythical winged being with a glimmer budget and a strict no-blood policy, but even I know what that was: a non-apology drenched in sarcasm and embalmed in privilege. You filmed it in a graveyard. A graveyard. The only thing missing was a fog machine and a tax cut for oil executives.”

Somehow I think our staid, factual letters to the editor are déclassé. We are competing in a world of the absurd and bizarre. Just look at the bromance breakup the last few days. Who can top that? By the way, I know it’s all distraction and irrelevant, but really in our modern instant social media and cable news world, it’s what people talk about. It’s like the US is trapped in a soap opera of biblical proportions.

I watched BBC news yesterday and they covered the bromance breakup for hours. I guess that’s what they think people want. I did watch it with mute on after a while. Then I thought of the absurdity and moved on. What will be today’s absurdity?

Linda Exum

Winterville