{"id":681619,"date":"2025-11-23T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=681619"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:34:11","slug":"egm-bread-and-circuses-again-behold-a-pale-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=681619","title":{"rendered":"EGM &#8212;  &#8216;bread and circuses&#8217;    (again)     &#8220;Behold a Pale Horse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/onechancefreedm\/status\/1992763318168113201\">https:\/\/x.com\/onechancefreedm\/status\/1992763318168113201<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooper is talking about the operating logic of empire. When a society becomes unstable\u2026politically, economically, spiritually the people running it don\u2019t solve the rot.<\/p>\n<p>Spectacle becomes a pressure valve. It absorbs public frustration, keeps people distracted, prevents them from asking harder questions about war, debt, corruption, surveillance, or the financial plumbing that determines who thrives and who never gets a chance. In Rome, the circus wasn\u2019t just a show; it was a governance tool. Cooper\u2019s argument is that modern culture runs on a more sophisticated version of the same template.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Behold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Behold-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-681621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Behold-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Behold-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Behold.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/x.com\/onechancefreedm\/status\/1992763318168113201 Cooper is talking about the operating logic of empire. When a society becomes unstable\u2026politically, economically, spiritually the people running it don\u2019t solve the rot. Spectacle becomes a pressure valve. It absorbs public frustration, keeps people distracted, prevents them from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=681619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681623,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681619\/revisions\/681623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}