The Bezos-Sanchez wedding party proves it - the age of vulgarity is upon us [View all]
(Opinion)
One should never be cynical about love, but it is impossible to not be a little bit cynical about the nuptials of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his recently acquired bride, former television host Lauren Sanchez.
The happy couple this week took over Venice for their wedding festival, which commenced with a foam party aboard the $500 million Bezos mega-yacht, moored in view of paparazzi off the coast of Croatia.
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Because now vulgarity is in, and if it is accepted, for example, that the United States president will use profane language in public when speaking about a US ally, as Trump did this week, then there is no longer any value in restraint. The Gatsby-esque Bezos nuptials are proof-positive of that, attended by the kinds of “careless people” that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about it in his 1925 masterpiece. People who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”.
In the words of a Venice resident quoted in a Reuters report: “There’s only one thing that rules now: money, money, money, so we are the losers.
“We who were born here have to either move to the mainland or we have to ask them for permission to board a ferry. They’ve become the masters.”
https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-bezos-sanchez-wedding-party-proves-it-the-age-of-vulgarity-is-upon-us-20250627-p5maui.html
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