But it's by no means a reason to pop Cristal -- now comes the task of bringing our economy to where it would have been had the financial sector's galactic incompetence not sent the rest of us into ruination in the first place.
Visitors will be guided – by the architecture – to explore the darker sides of African American history, including loss and ruination, before ascending into light-filled upper galleries and up to "unrivalled panoramas of the Mall, Federal Triangle buildings and Monument Grounds".
For others, it's a weeklong look down the barrel of total emotional ruination, an entering into complete desolation.
His three heroes were Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, which was fine, but also Sékou Touré, the leftist tyrant of Guinea; and Idi Amin, the deranged buffoon leading Uganda into bloody ruination.
Finally, the Empire fell into bankruptcy and ruination from overreach and arrogance.
Where previous seasons often seemed devoted to charting his ruination (luckily escaped, even converted into success), the year so far has found Don Draper in a kind of halting, capital-R, up-from-rock-bottom recovery story.
For those of us whose brackets had shot well past imperfection and into the realm of disastrous ruination, Dayton's upset was a joyful thing, a return to March Madness after a dreary afternoon of sensible predictability.
Later his enthusiasm for taking part in other sports in his free time was such that in the early days of marriage his wife, Linda (nee Burles), threw all his kit and equipment into their driveway after the ruination of one too many Sunday roasts.
While Scotland Yard had to contend with five years of failure to investigate hacking properly, News Corporation found itself plunged into a scandal that threatened ruination, with corporate charges in the US a possibility after it emerged that journalists had paid public officials for stories.
