..They won""t pay their taxes in a rational resentment of Rome...then there""s religion.I""ll tell you, they""re drunk with religion, smash the statues of our gods, even those of the Emperor.(They also may envy his wealth and life of ease.) They angrily believe that he "let them down" and is jeopardizing heir freedom.Robie responds: "And now if there""s any crime on he Riviera, we""re the first to be suspected by the police.When they announced heir wedding plans to him, mean-spirited Wynant told his daughter hat he was going into seclusion to work on an important new business idea and invention (because there""s "no peace, no quiet, everybody interrupting me").The plot was accompanied by a perverse anti-consumerist critique of the mall culture and its mentality.