Bread and Circuses in Pennsylvania
Posted by M. C. on April 23, 2020
COVID
While I believe all businesses are important, one has to wonder at Governor Wolf’s logic in deciding what is essential.
While people are unemployed, idled and wondering whether they will have a job when this is over, ice cream stands are opening in Pennsylvania.
Ice cream is the bread in bread and circuses.
“Bread and circuses” (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD — and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. – Wikipedia
We are being played.
Like the magician making you look here when the real trick is sneaking up on you from there.
Be seeing you


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