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flyingcuttlefish ago

This documentary is comparing today to the age of declining empires of the past -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU

... talks about Rome's gladiator shows . . .

11 min. 30 mark -

Strangely, perhaps, there is another profession that is disproportionately hallowed as an empire declines.
The Romans, the Ottomans and the Spanish all made celebrities of their chefs.

And this again is typifying the end of an empire, where things were so great we have this last oomph of momentum, that we used to be great, and we felt great, and we don't feel it anymore. So everyone is out searching for it.
Well, maybe it's in the best food or the best clothes or the best music or the best movies or a reality TV show or another magazine. But you can never get enough of what you don't need.