It's fascinating because there's something particular to the modern strain of it in a lot of regards that, even as it sometimes gestures to the past, maintains a continual fix to a generic present.

I suppose it makes some sense with the old money/new money disconnect, but... still.

For me, unironically, it's a pretty good showcase of what shit must have been like during the times of the early Caesars. Just... putting up platitude after platitude, praising them as the patriarch of patriarchs, in order to gain favour