The British royal baby circus can be seen as a modern-day repeat of the “bread and circuses” policy of ancient Rome. In the waning days of that empire, the rulers sought to distract the masses from their grinding misery and the unwieldy wealth and corruption of the elite by sporadically throwing scraps of bread to the hungry public while saturating them with spectacles of gore and bloodlust at the Colosseum. Today, the British public - grinding under massive austerity budget cuts, unemployment, poverty wages, social deprivations and crumbling services - are thrown scraps of feelgood comfort from the much-hyped event. The attitude is silly at best and escapist Prince Charming syndrome on steroids at worst.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:23:52 +0000
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