Super Bowl 50 – Wretched Excess / NorthwestCitizen, Dick Conoboy

                                             Super Bowl Income Source Being Photographed

 

Fri, Feb 05, 2016, 11:45 am  Dick Conoboy

Two years ago I wrote an article on this site explaining my rationale for not having watched the Super Bowl.  The piece was entitled: Panem et Circenses – Why I Did Not Watch “The Super Bowl”.  I borrowed the Latin phrase, translated as “bread and circuses”, from the Roman satirist, Juvenal, who spoke of the phenomenon of keeping the people entertained and well fed rather than have them participate in activities to ensure their own freedom and future. […]

Read Dick’s complete article on NorthwestCitizen here.

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