All Great Men Have Melancholy

No Mom. I'm not sick. It's called "melancholy". All great men have it.

A bearded man lies dramatically on a couch in a dim room, insisting to his mother that he is not sick but merely experiencing “melancholy.” The joke mocks melodramatic self-diagnosis and the pretentious romanticization of ordinary sadness, presenting it as a trait of supposedly great men. EN: A bearded man lies dramatically on a couch in a dim room, insisting to his mother that he is not sick but merely experiencing “melancholy.” The joke mocks melodramatic self-diagnosis and the pretentious romanticization of ordinary sadness, presenting it as a trait of supposedly great men.

• @afrosidemoon / 58122 2023-07-24