The departure of the former president and his wife to Mar-a-Lago, the recent articles on Jeff Bezos’s property portfolio, and Alexei Navalny’s exposé of Vladimir Putin’s massive palace reminded me of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ozymandias,” which contains these lines:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.
The problem is that Shelley’s poem is predicated on patience, which seems increasingly hard to justify when the signs of change are few and far between.
— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend
