[lmr]

Dubai in the last 2 decades, is the perfect example of pomposity, decadence, excess and hubris.

I can't help but feel some schadenfreude...

[Vince Ferrer]

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[garyhope]

I like a person who knows how to use words like pomposity, hubris and schadenfreude in one post.

I also like to throw in smug, arrogant and condescending when I’m talking about “liberals” and the Dims.

When I’m talking about the MSM I have been know to throw in “cultural and artistic hegemony” too.

[Liberty Valance]

[OldDeckHand]

"I can't help but feel some schadenfreude... "

Hey, I'd much rather have the muzzies building big-ass buildings dripping with pomposity and hubris, than have them sink ever single dollar into weapons of mass destruction.

Sure, the entire country was built with what could be described as slave laborers or indentured servants, but they were also building a middle class as well.

[Westlander]

Babel.

[org.whodat]

Come to think of it if we sent all of our illegals there they could help fill up all of those empty half built buildings.

[Cold Heart]

Maybe they could film a “reality life after man show” there.