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2022-02-12 · Modern Day Bread and Circuses — Superficial appeasement, opiates and distraction are tools used by governments when things fall apart. 2000 years after Decimus Junius Juvenalis coined the term ‘Bread and Games’ in Rome in Satire X, the term still coins societies core drive to cater to our most basic desires.

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