Most Americans are more concerned about the games on their iPhone, the NFL labor strike, and assorted other breadandcircuses, than the very real prospect that our 235-year-long narrative of increasing dominance could be suddenly over in a flash should we default or come close to defaulting on our debt.
He told the programme that the British establishment was "toying with the idea of trying to distract everyone with these breadandcircuses" from the economic downturn.
It is a fact that Roman breadandcircuses produced a large leech class at a time when desperately needed manpower and resources for the Legions was scarce.