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March 13, 2025

Thoughtlets. LXXII. Duh.

Cherry-picked from the Wall of Banalities just for you: According to which criteria, and whose, do the good and right believers set themselves apart from the ignorant masses? Most, if not all, of us can claim some particular sliver of expertise, gleaned from years of experience, concerning some shred of knowledge or skill in some Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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February 24, 2022

Bread and Circuses

(Originally posted Oct. 24, 2020) Somewhere around the second century CE, the Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase ‘bread and circuses’ which has come to mean placating one’s populace with cheap bribes to distract them from their political grievances. Here’s the logic. Thomas Hobbes observed that “If any two men [sic] desire the same thing, Continue reading

Social and Political Commentary

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