Instead Vajiralongkorn has built up a reputation for womanising, extravagance, bizarre self-indulgence and occasional cruelty, including to his own children, several of whom have been stripped of their names and titles and live in exile.
If there is a cultural Doomsday Clock, surely the bizarre self-indulgence that Tom Connor chronicles in "Suburban Parties With Some Wow" (Jan . 2 brings the minute hand yet closer to midnight.
It's a bizarre mix of indulgence and deprivation, the crisp white jackets on the servers communicating an ostentation that's contradicted by plenty else, including the brusque manner in which those servers sometimes hustle diners through a meal.
Although Spirits - like the later Dario Argento/George Romero double-decker, Two Evil Eyes - is undeniably a horror movie, it also extends itself as pop art, cartoonish satire, aesthetic experiment, bizarre sexploitation and auteur indulgence.
Bleuler is credited with the introduction of two concepts fundamental to the analysis of schizophrenia: autism, denoting the loss of contact with reality, frequently through indulgence in bizarre fantasy; and ambivalence, denoting the coexistence of mutually exclusive contradictions within the psyche.
Mannerist artists evolved a style that is characterized by artificiality and artiness, by a thoroughly self-conscious cultivation of elegance and technical facility, and by a sophisticated indulgence in the bizarre.
Thus the continued indulgence of statelets like San Marino who, in the bizarre democratic oligarchy of football politics, have the same voting power of England or Germany.
The bizarre conflation of luxury and inflated consumerism was part of a collection called INDULGENCE, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and designed by Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid, aka Ken Courtney.
