This should be the rallying cry of the GOP.
“Too many people in this country care about entertainment more than they care about freedom.”
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Marx Redux:
For Germany, the criticism of religion (TV) has been largely completed, and the criticism of religion (TV) is the prerequisite of all criticism.
The foundation of irreligious criticism is this: Man makes TV, TV does not make man. TV is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness so long as he has not found himself or has already lost himself again. But, man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce TV, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. TV is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, it enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against TV is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is TV.
TV suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. TV is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. TV is the opium of the people.
We could refer to Bread and Circuses.
But the modern generations do not even study the history of the Roman Empire, so they would not get the connotation.
History, as taught today, "started" when slaves were imported to America. Period.