Context behind print: the full phrase (according to Goodreads) goes, "Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."
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The phrase is attributed to is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD (Wikipedia)
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Whilst it may have been originally to refer to superficial appeasement. It speaks truly about our situation of inaction in the face of fascist politics and the oligarchy
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they're all the usual BDS suspects, McDs, Starbucks, Netflix and Google to name a few
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Don't wait to do something as they take away your friends and neighbours.
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Cause if you wait till they come for you it will be too late
Free Pa/estine!

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Enjoy what you enjoy, by all means; turn off your critical brain and consume some brain candy.

We all need to do this on occasion!

But, for the love of all that's good, acknowledge that people will have reactions when your brain candy/problematic comfort read/etc, is harmful to others.

Your knowing that you're a good person (with "good intentions") doesn't mean jack in this context.

#AllArtIsPolitical

You want to go watch the new Avatar, even though ever Indigenous person around you has explained how it's both exploitative and anti-Indigenous (forget about the magical cure of the first movie, which disabled people have things to say about)?

Knock yourself out.

But don't cry and be shocked if people tell you that your choice to do so is political, and they think less of you now.

#AllArtIsPolitical

Oh, the author has shared the full poem, with context, here:

https://guante.info/2020/10/14/trickortreat/

#Poetry
#AllArtIsPolitical
#VoteBlue