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Work, play, food, music, everything in his life gets approached almost with obsession.

The signs include “identification of enemies as a unifying cause,” “controlled mass media,” “corporate power protected,” “labor power suppressed,” “disdain for intellectuals and the arts,” “obsession with crime and punishment,”and “rampant cronyism & corruption.”

Humanizing our obsession with beauty and obligation for council, Handel’s early masterpiece comes across as timely as it is titillating.

Our community’s simultaneous obsession and fear of death — to the point of wanting to distance ourselves from it and concurrently conquer it — is one reason.

And, yes, we knew he would foul up the economy with his obsession for tariffs, which he called "the most beautiful word in the English language" and nobody even thought it was weird.