Bread&Circuses
of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through
exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction;
or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace.
The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of
the commoner.
In modern usage, the phrase is taken to describe a populace that no longer values civic
virtues and the public life. To many, it connotes a supposed triviality and frivolity that
characterized the Roman Republic prior to its decline into the autocratic monarchy
characteristic of the later Roman Empire's transformation about 44 B.C
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
- Thomas Sowell
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@SimonM I've seen a few with this guy. Good stuff. www.youtube.com/shorts/PxJ3SP0LN...
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senior guru Kuramoto model of synchronisation demonstrated with 32 metronomes synchronising themselves. Amazing!
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@michael59 Very cool. Thank you.
@michael59 The soldiers marching around the Town of Jericho in the Bible in synchronization made the walls of the town fall down. They were instructed by God to do so. And conquered the enemy.
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@Bread&Circuses Maybe. But I have no memory of it. I just crossed it out online. In fact, it is a misquote. It was not Thucydide's, it came from Sir William Francis Buttler.
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it's been a while. I still couldn't get on my old account even after getting a mess from Dr. Evil, it didn't work 
and then I lost the pass for this account so ya It's been a drag.. 
and hope to hear from you soon. I must go shopping. I finally get on after 2 hrs and I have to leave.
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