Give Them Bread and Circuses: Give Them Bread and Circuses

Monday, April 1, 2013

Give Them Bread and Circuses

This is another text post as I build this new blog dedicated to the political,. cultural and moral decline of western civilization.

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Give Them Bread and Circuses

This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirist and poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.). "Bread and Circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace,as an offered "palliative." Juvenal decried it as a simplistic motivation of common people. The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the common man. - Wikipedia

Monday, April 1, 2013

Give Them Bread and Circuses

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