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CIRCUSES AND CYNICISM

CIRCUSES AND CYNICISM

The ear­ly 2nd cen­tu­ry poet Juve­nal coined the phrase “bread and cir­cus­es” to describe how Roman emper­ors dis­tract­ed their pub­lic from gov­ern­men­tal short­com­ings. The rash and ulti­mate­ly short-sight­ed ploy echoes today in the form of crises. The dan­ger is that crises can be lethal if mis­han­dled, a dis­tinct pos­si­bil­i­ty when they are sea­soned with cynicism.Read the rest