What we could hope would be exciting entertainment (sports at a high level of excellence and competition) and an innocent opportunity to discharge tension appears to be being pushed into the corruption that comes from unmitigated greed. I'm reminded of the corrupt and bloody Roman arena events we've seen in movies [Ben Hur, Gladiator (Ru…
What we could hope would be exciting entertainment (sports at a high level of excellence and competition) and an innocent opportunity to discharge tension appears to be being pushed into the corruption that comes from unmitigated greed. I'm reminded of the corrupt and bloody Roman arena events we've seen in movies [Ben Hur, Gladiator (Russell Crowe as Maximus)]. Juvenal in his satires understood Roman corruption summing up that "bread and circuses" would be enough to keep the populace from rebelling. ...Except that we don't have the bread (grain subsidies) and the circuses are not free!
What we could hope would be exciting entertainment (sports at a high level of excellence and competition) and an innocent opportunity to discharge tension appears to be being pushed into the corruption that comes from unmitigated greed. I'm reminded of the corrupt and bloody Roman arena events we've seen in movies [Ben Hur, Gladiator (Russell Crowe as Maximus)]. Juvenal in his satires understood Roman corruption summing up that "bread and circuses" would be enough to keep the populace from rebelling. ...Except that we don't have the bread (grain subsidies) and the circuses are not free!