He is the most civilised and civilising of recent artists, a man who read endlessly and expects the same of his beholders.
"I am the sort of iconoclast," he wrote, "who will ridicule the establishment endlessly and expect to be seated at the head of the table.
We've become super-demotic, expecting to be endlessly fed the line that the stars are "just like us".
It's increasingly hard to unplug ourselves from social media channels, where we're expected to endlessly absorb information and perform.
On Tuesday, Tony Abbott further inflamed the situation by saying his government could not be expected to "endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have".
We expect to be endlessly fed the line that the stars are "just like us".
Bhaskar, in particular, is an odd choice for the charismatic comic, "Mr. Saturday Night", a role in which one expects a loose-limbed, endlessly inquisitive, repulsive-yet-mesmerising charmer with an unpredictability that at times veers excitingly close to danger.
But like all myths, especially self-serving ones, expect it to be endlessly recycled.
"Early on they were eating rats, much earlier than they expected," a producer of this endlessly hyped show said when promoting it on "Access Hollywood".
In "Sweetwater," she tackles the environment and the idea that we expect the land to be endlessly bounteous despite how we treat it.
Soon after asking Gilbert to be his coach, Agassi, who is endlessly polite, made it clear to Gilbert what he expected.
