Bread and Circuses
Jan 31, 1998 06:05 PM
by Visanu Sirish
In a message dated 98-01-31 10:16:30 EST, you write:
<< Clinton did a lot of impure things, by anyone's standards, .........But
everyone seems to forgive him, because the economy (the material plane) is
functioning >>
Give 'em bread (an overstuffed economy) and circuses and everybody's happy. A
well-fed populace never complains! An old trick used by the dissolute Roman
emperors. It worked for a while and then complete decline. We're going through
the same old cyclic pattern for countries again - idealism, then decadence,
then collapse.
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