12/16/2025
He is providing the circus.
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A quotation from Jean-Paul Marat

   In order to subdue his subjects, the Prince labours to blind them. Conscious of the unlawfulness of his own designs, and sensible of what he has to fear from clear-sighted men, he endeavours to deprive the people of every means of acquiring knowledge.
   How many crafty devices have not Princes employed to oppose the progress of learning? Some banish science out of their dominions; others prohibit their subjects from traveling into foreign countries; others again divert the people from reflecting, by continually entertaining them with feasts and shews, or keeping up among the the spirit of gaming; and all stand up against men of spirit, who dedicate either their voices or their pen to defend the cause of liberty.
 
[Persuadés d’ailleurs combien il est commode de régner sur un peuple abruti, ils [les princes] s’efforcent de le rendre tel. Que d’obstacles n’opposent-ils pas au progrès des lumières? Les uns bannissent les lettres de leurs Etats; les autres défendent à leurs sujets de voyager; d’autres empêchent le peuple de réfléchir, en l’amusant continuellement par des parades, des spectacles, des fêtes, ou en le livrant aux fureurs du jeu. Tous s’élèvent contre les sages qui consacrent leur voix et leur plume à défendre la cause de la liberté.]

Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) French physician, political theorist, scientist, journalist
The Chains of Slavery [Les Chaînes de L’Esclavage], ch. 40 “Of Ignorance” (1774) [Beckett ed. (1774)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marat-jean-paul/8000…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeanpaulmarat #breadandcircuses #censorship #distraction #education #ignorance #isolation #learning #nationalism #suppression #tyranny

Yay! More #BreadAndCircuses

I don't normally watch live streaming events, so listening to national broadcasters and seeing commercials is _really_ disorienting and alien to me. I will suffer through it for the spectacle 🎉

#GoMs #Baseball

Being a masochistic #SeattleMariners baseball fan finally pays off tonight after 24 years. That was an exhausting vicarious five hours.

On to the Championship Series!🎉

#Baseball #MLB #BreadAndCircuses #GoMs

For tonight's #SeattleMariners playoff game, the Puget Sound Seismic Network has "installed the Richter Rizz seismic station at T-Mobile" to "track the energy in the ballpark":

The site just went live now(16:30PST):

https://preview.pnsn.org/experiments/2025-mariners/alds-game-5

#Baseball #MLB #Earthquakes #SeismicMeasurement #PSSN #GoMs #BreadAndCircuses

How will people's lives change if they know for sure that Musk's, Thiel's and Trump's names are in the Epstein files?

How will those files help fight #fascism, #technofascism and the sky rocketing economic #inequality?

They won't. It's just another distraction so that real problems, like the skyrocketing income inequality between the rich and the average American, never get discussed or solved.

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-22-clamoring-to-tax-the-rich/

#USpol #breadAndCircuses

I love that my #orioles and my #mariners are digging into a strong September to get above 10 under .500 and leading the AL West, respectively, but...

Let's not have any of that interfere with my #bluejays entrenching a solid AL East win and the AL top seed.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

#mlb #breadandcircuses #toronto #elbowsup

Also, I can't believe we aren't still booking the #mairikkkan anthem, fuuuuuck.

Recreating Auditory Experiences in the Colosseum: An Archaeoacoustic Investigation of Acoustic Perception in Ancient Rome [pdf 10pp] #ArchaeoAcoustics #AncientRome #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martyn-Chambers-2/publication/395206053_RECREATING_AUDITORY_EXPERIENCES_IN_THE_COLOSSEUM_AN_ARCHAEOACOUSTIC_INVESTIGATION_OF_ACOUSTIC_PERCEPTION_IN_ANCIENT_ROME/links/68b75c81360112563e100247/RECREATING-AUDITORY-EXPERIENCES-IN-THE-COLOSSEUM-AN-ARCHAEOACOUSTIC-INVESTIGATION-OF-ACOUSTIC-PERCEPTION-IN-ANCIENT-ROME.pdf

Coldstream Guard, Buckingham Palace, #shiny #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #travel #parasites #PompAndCircumstance #BreadAndCircuses #EastCoastKin

Why Trump's ballroom is a sign of his own doom #Rot #Decadence #Corruption #Spectacle #BreadAndCircuses #Downfall www.rawstory.com/trump-ballro...

Why Trump's ballroom is a sign...

A quotation from Cicero

He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
 
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude

The formula for keeping power hasn’t changed in 2,000 years:

🍞 Feed the people
🎪 Distract them
🔥 Turn them on each other

Rome perfected it. Modern leaders just gave it Wi-Fi.

🔗 https://brewminate.com/bread-circuses-and-scapegoats-cultural-distraction-and-political-power-in-the-ancient-world/

#Brewminate #BreadAndCircuses #PoliticalTheater #DistractionTactics #ScapegoatPolitics

Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between #PamBondi & #DanBongino at DOJ

The #DOJ & #FBI are struggling to contain the fallout & appease the demands of #FarRight *conservative* personalities & influential members of Trump’s base after the admin’s decision this week to withhold records from the #JeffreyEpstein #SexTrafficking investigation [likely because #Trump is in them].

#law #idiocracy #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses #ConspiracyTheories
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-dan-bongino-bondi-trump-fbi-0f02f67b6c97fc50e4d93bc4dbf4c4d0

If nothing else, I suppose we have the privilege of watching the death of American Democracy in 4K. #USPol #BreadAndCircuses

About Fascism and it’s well known approaches. Today: Bread and circuses:

»The Daily Mail reports that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is “backing” an outlandish proposal to have immigrants pitted against each other to compete for U.S. citizenship on air in a reality show called The American.«
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-citizenship-reality-show-b2752121.html
#Citizenship #Diversion #Autocracy #BreadAndCircuses

If that doesn’t ring a bell, let me quote from Wikipedia:
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I’d rather not see the Inquisition happen all over again.
#startrek #allstartrek #breadAndCircuses

@MirrorAyako @allstartrek
Bread and Circuses and Patterns of Force are simple variations on a theme. A theme that should have been left well enough alone.
#allstartrek #startrek #breadAndCircuses @allstartrek

A poster for the Star Trek episode Bread And Circuses, tonight on H&I's All Star Trek.

Artist: Juan Ortiz

Source: https://www.etonline.com/gallery/141109_Juan_Ortiz_Star_Trek_Episode_Posters

#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #BreadAndCircuses #StarTrekPoster #JuanOrtiz #StarTrekTOSPoster

Did the Roman Colliseum host draft picks?

#sport #breadandcircuses #nfl