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> Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace

3 November 2005, 13:37

"Bread and circus", that was the rationale of ancient Rome, and of most of todays` western governments.

Football and reality t.v., the illusion of "personalities", "terror" alerts, unemployment, "strong" police forces, whilst all the time gripping the throats of the poor. Poverty-line wages, tower block apartments, processed food, inadequate education.

Because desperate for work, the underclass fights within itself to find food and work. Or even stealing, just to eat.

Which gives the silk-suited elites the moment to shout that the "people" need protection, and so the police get larger budgets, which helps prevent them turning on their masters.
Until of course, the people get pissed off, as they did in Romania, when they took the president and his wife around to the back of the palace, and transformed Romanian politics in less than sixty seconds, transformed Romanian politics.