Sic Transit Imperii Malum
15 min readAug 16, 2021
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they 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. . . . — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“No hugging, no learning.” — Larry David, on the formula for the situation comedy Seinfeld
