That is where the phrase “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses) comes from, an Ancient Roman satirist named Juvenal who was deriding the government’s approach of placating the masses. Other parties also didn’t like the circuses, especially the more violent ones, for example Stoics like Seneca.
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That is where the phrase “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses) comes from, an Ancient Roman satirist named Juvenal who was deriding the government’s approach of placating the masses. Other parties also didn’t like the circuses, especially the more violent ones, for example Stoics like Seneca.