There are those who understand contempt for formalities as the ultimate exercise of power; doing something, not because it's necessary, but simply for the pleasure of it being so. This attitude is possibly the expression of an uncontrollable authoritarian drive that transcends the eroticism of power to become exhibitionism. There is much of that in the government's handling of the Sustainable Tourism Tax, of hidden pleasure in the desecration exercised by nonbelievers.