Generation Instant Gratification with Brigitte Secard

Faux Humanitarianism + Activism as the New Status Symbol


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Do you ever wonder what the people walking the red carpet for 5 star gala charity events are feeling? Chances are, so are they. Because no thinking and sensate individual could possibly be deluded into believing that throwing and attending lavish parties is any intelligent way to change things. Rather, it is only helping one person: the one walking that red carpet who needs to feel like they are impossibly hip to be so poignantly informed and "caring about the plight of others." While, later that night, they will return to their well manicured and luxurious lives. And the following morning: driving their Lexus hybrid SUV to their comfortably paid non-profit job, donning their Free Tibet bumper sticker, and Hispanic nanny in the back seat with their child.
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Generation Instant Gratification with Brigitte SecardBy Brigitte Secard