guilty pleasures

It should be noted that towers of ilium only watches Downton Abbey for architectural reasons--all the characters are expendable. The decline of landed gentry in Britain is something that I regard as a positive thing. The resources consumed by a place like this require deep and persistent inequalities in wealth, political power, and personal aspirations. Of course, deep and persistent inequalities are the reason we have so many wonderful buildings all over the world. Towers of ilium is also of the opinion, that despite the vast economic divides in the U.S. the architectural legacy of the super-rich isn't very impressive. Perhaps it is the consequence of shame, or a latent modesty, or a more abstract perception of wealth.