All eyes are on celebrity news. I was at the gym today and one of the

[AlinPA]

local channels had on some world and local news, some politics. I noticed nobody was watching. Then someone put on "Access Hollywood" and suddenly all eyes were on that crap - Anna Nicole, Tom Cruise, or whoever the hell they were.

[bperci108]

1. This is the "circus" part of "Bread and Circuses".

:puke:

I hate to be so fatalistic, but we as a nation get the government we deserve.

But I believe that the day is coming (and perhaps quite soon...) when when the masses will wake up to their enslavement.

That will not be a good time to be found among the wealthy power elite. :(

[jwirr]

2. Just keep in mind that even with their bread and circuses Rome

fell.

[bperci108]

3. Absolutely correct.

A thought that runs through my mind almost daily now.... :(


I wonder what the workaday Romans were thinking and talking about as the Empire began to crumble around them?

Probably the same sort of crap that's on the InfoTainment networks now, eh?