#Succession journey now at an end, after binging the last five episodes on a day off work. I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to point out that, after all that drama, the “winners” and “losers” were always billionaires who never actually needed to fight at all. S4 took a political turn, even calling a character #Mencken just to rub it in.

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Let's Please Take a Moment to Cherish Kerry's Brother on 'Succession' https://jezebel.com/lets-please-take-a-moment-to-cherish-kerrys-brother-on-1850460871 #Jezebel #dagmaradomic584czyk #dagmaradominczyk #jessearmstrong #humaninterest #cherishkerry #castellabate #karolina #matsson #mencken #actors #logan #gerri #fabio #zelda #shiv #roy

"The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe."
H.L. #Mencken

"If you think the way to #freedom is to persuade a majority of your fellows that #liberty should be their highest value, you are playing a fools errand."
Michael #Malice

The American #satirist H. L. #Mencken: ‘There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli,’ he wrote in a fragment later published combining the Greek for ‘book’ (#biblios) with the Latin for ‘fond of drinking’ (#bibulus). ‘I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.’

##bibliobibuli

HL Mencken's essay "The Libido for the Ugly," a screed against offensive architecture that is itself pretty offensive, is also pretty on the nose about American pride-in-sprawl and the aesthetic mysteries of the hideous. It takes a bit for this page to load, but wow. Perhaps best read aloud, though I had to stop a couple of times because I was sob-laughing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050404040159/http://www.bizbag.com/mencken/menklibid.htm

#architecture #urbandesign #mencken #americanhistory