While seven years old isn’t exactly a milestone for any child, when you’re North West, it apparently warrants your very own Friesian horse. This is precisely what Kim Kardashian made clear just months ago in June when she faced her first Marie Antoinette-esque backlash of the year for chirpily posting on her social media accounts, “Meet North’s Freesian horse. We have 14 gorgeous Freesians on the ranch.” Well bully for you, you tone deaf cunt incapable of spelling. But hey, the wealthy have never been ones to be marred by the rest of us down at heel just being jealous. Not even in pandemic conditions (as history has shown time and time again, with the bourgeoisie fleeing to their country estates and such every time the cities get diseased).
Kim K continued to make that clear over the course of her recent birthday celebrations on a private island of Tahiti (a more specific location will be revealed later when aspirational hangers-on can dare to dream they’ll ever make it there). Alas, Paul Gaugin depictions these were not. At least this time, however, it was a milestone–forty–of a birthday worth risking the pitchforks and torches as opposed to showcasing one of North’s many gifts for a middling seventh birthday. So it was that Kim selected ten rather banal photos (considering the flogging she ended up getting for such prosaic scenes) to exhibit herself rubbing up all over friends and family who had to “endure” “rigorous” health screenings in order to make the cut for Kim’s island, which one could envision quickly devolving into the narrative for The Most Dangerous Game had the masked workers been able to get their way.
The genuine sense of martyrdom Kim felt for the “simple luxury” of being able to travel places with people (apparently forgetting that travel itself is more than a “simple luxury” for most) is manifest in her lengthy caption, which included, among other out of touch with the common man sentiments, “Before COVID, I don’t think any of us truly appreciated what a simple luxury it was to be able to travel and be together with family and friends in a safe environment. After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.”
Oh my, “just a brief moment in time,” Kim seems unaware, is actually every day for her and her ilk. In terms of what it means to “feel normal” by way of being allowed to move about the Earth freely and sans the judgment of the hoi polloi for not wearing a mask in public. For there is no “public space” when you’re rich enough to render the world your own private island wherever you go. That Kim (or any other celebrity) thinks her life is any different by moving her coterie of sycophants to a more sequestered milieu is perhaps the biggest sign of the delusion that comes with fame. What’s really changed? One is still in a private, dripping with decadence location that could just as easily be part of one simulation over another. The palm trees, the ocean–it’s all par for the course when you’re at that level. So why, oh why, bother trying to parade it at a moment like this when Kim could just as easily have settled for her own “backyard”? Or, at the very least, waited to post the pictures until a less bloodlusting era on the part of the “riffraff.”
At the same time, other celebrities have been guilty of social media faux pas throughout this pandemic, including Madonna, who got more flak for calling COVID-19 “the great equalizer” than for parading pictures of her entourage at a private resort in Jamaica for her own birthday back in August. But perhaps she’s been skewered enough for the time being to make Kardashian the easier target. Being that she seems to invite the roasting based on the Friesian a.k.a. Freesian horses debacle that already happened this year. What will Kim think of next to goad us with? One can only pray it’s not miraculously becoming the First Lady. The masses are already just waiting for the final straw to drive them toward cannibalism (or rather, eating the rich).
