Bread and Circuses… was the only thing to catch my eye today. Indeed, the Circuses bit is the sole content of news this morning. The soccer dominates and has done for many days now. The Commonwealth Games comes a close second. The winners of everything displaying the “must-do” for every sport these days – clenched fist, unrestrained aggression and screaming into camera. Very sad, particularly so with the recent death of Professor James Lovelock, arguably the greatest and most important 20th century scientist after Einstein. His passing barely gets a mention, Our leaders must be very happy that the Circuses keep people’s minds off of the chronic state of the nation. That said, they have forgotten to address the “Bread” bit of the phenomenon – with more and more citizens having to use food banks because of soaring prices.
Indeed the smokescreens and illusions they use to pull the wool over our eyes.