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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica Is A Cabaret. Things Are Crumbling As We Are Districted.
"Cabaret" is my favorite play and movie. Just watched it again. Joel Grey is the perfect host. The more I watch this great piece of art the more I realize that it is the perfect metaphor for what is going on in the US today.
Just like Germany, we are ignoring the cause of our problem while we are in an American Cabaret. As we are distracted by all the phoniness in the media and entertainment including sports, our American experiment is dying just like Germany was dying.
And we better wake up before it is too late.
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America Is A Cabaret. Things Are Crumbling As We Are Districted. (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Jul 2014
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babylonsister
(171,079 posts)1. Baloney. ALL IS NOT LOST! We will survive! nt
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)3. I Hope You Are Correct
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)2. From Latin: "panem et circenses"; "Bread and Circuses"
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"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic 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,[1] as an offered "palliative." Juvenal decried it as a simplistic motivation of common people.[2][3][4] The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)4. You rock!
Thank you, darling!
msongs
(67,433 posts)5. current leadership has no clue about the "vision thing" or leadership for that matter nt
Personal Damon
(64 posts)6. I'd go with Soma
PS: I am not saying this is a good thing! Quite the opposite!