March 19, 2004
bread and circuses
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Aquarium TV at SOMA
(Bloomington's
hippest juice and coffee bar)
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One of
the great achievements of postwar America was the creation of a
stable middle-class society. That achievement is unraveling.
At the moment, the dispossessed are politically apathetic,
distracted by video games and cable television, the modern
equivalent of bread and circuses.
from an Eric Schlosser review of
"Staying Alive" written by David K. Shipler


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