Excellent perspective. Additionally, I would say that bread and circuses are effective not because people love pleasure, but because they relieve people of the burden of thinking. The real danger may not be entertainment itself, but the gradual loss of the desire to wrestle with difficult questions when distraction is always available.
Excellent perspective. Additionally, I would say that bread and circuses are effective not because people love pleasure, but because they relieve people of the burden of thinking. The real danger may not be entertainment itself, but the gradual loss of the desire to wrestle with difficult questions when distraction is always available.
Accurate, and very well said.