The Entertainer

In school pupils learn about how the emperors of Ancient Rome were able to keep the mob from questioning the political decisions of their rulers: Bread & Circuses. We tend to laugh about these savage people who were so easy to control by fulfilling their primitive needs. But are we much better and more civilized then they were? Of course, we are not going to a coliseum to see barbarian fights – because we don’t have to. In every apartment, we have our own small coliseum: a television. It fulfills our most primitive needs with shows where people embarrassed themselves or violent movies – so we can „relax“ and forget about the troubling world outside. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer`s lion represents the modern mass media and how they deliver exactly what we want: bread & circuses.
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