I know we're almost as Americanised as
our parents always foretold we would be (in the most sepulchral
tones) but the latest ad on TV for 'Grey's Anatomy' is going one step
too far.
Full disclosure: I loathe 'Grey's
Anatomy'. The cast of doctors are the most unpleasant, self-obsessed,
neurotic individuals I would never get my ill body close to. And they
seem to be the same in real life. I don't know about you but I
remember poor Isaiah Washington being fired from the show because he
got into a fight on set with the gay-in-real-life actor whose name I
don't recall but who always looked like he had just spied a pile of
dung in the corner of the room. Anyway, poor Isaiah got canned
because he yelled 'Faggot!' apparently. Oh boo-hoo. Dude should have
just grown a pair and yelled back “Black!'. But no, American
studios not only have to do the politically correct thing they have to
be seen doing the politically correct thing. So out Isaiah went. But not before everyone from Patrick Dempsey to Katherine Heigl took sides against him, publicly naturellement.
Meredith Grey meanwhile never stopped
whining. (You need to see Ellen Pompeo's 'Punk'd' episode to be fearful of your life if you ever done her wrong, btw.) Grey's so-called friendship with Yang is the kind of
double-edged sword we would only want to emulate if we had a death
wish. This is the role model for Indians in the workplace.
The TV ad has
a woman whining about her colleague, and best friend, being taken to
Paris. 'Should I tell my boss her CV is fake?' she wonders, before
delivering the punchline: 'What would Meredith do?' Then you have a
guy whining about the work he has piled up on his desk on a Friday
night while his boss gets to go home. Should he quit, he wonders.
'What would Meredith do?'
Sweet suffering Christ. With friends
and employees like this we might as well go strand ourselves on a
desert island with a pile of good books because the human species
seems to be devolving rapidly. Jealous over a friend's good fortune
to the extent that you would destroy her career? Complaining because
you have to do what you're getting paid to do? What next? Taking cues
from a TV show to chart your sorry life?
The Mayan prediction for December 2012
can't come soon enough.
Of course the truth is we're already dead. We
just don't know it.
