Daily bread
"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement.
In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace, as an offered "palliative". <Rev> Palliative relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause.</Ref>
Juvenal decried[1] it as a simplistic motivation of common people with a disregard to the consequences to others. The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner.
Basically it describes the system of religious but public welfare of the Roman State which was run through the Temples. It from time to time included all social welfare from free bread and food supplies including wine and surplus cheese to actual cash or even health care provisions and education.
The funds collected were legislated as a tax to the members who signed up for these systems of qorban in Rome or Corban in Judea. Members were required to contribute so being public and enforced by exercising authority of the state were not dependent upon charity.
The funds were held in a treasury by the administers of the system of welfare. Because they were not dependent upon charity but upon contract they were called the unrighteous mammon by Christ. Eventually that system showed decay and corruption that ate up the funds of the treasury and the entrusted contribution to that system until it was bankrupt.
Since Christians obtained their daily bread through there own system of charitable welfare as prescribed by Christ and John the Baptist and of course the apostles and including Paul, this eventually produced the Christian conflict that became the fuel for persecution with the outlaw of private religion.
Footnotes
- ↑ Leisure and Ancient Rome, By J. P. Toner full quote at p.69. "… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"
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