At the height of their power, the Romans engaged in a practice they called “Bread and Circus.” The idea was that as long as they kept their own citizens wellfed and distracted by staging spectacular spectacles, then the leaders could get away with doing whatever nastiness they wished in the shadows — and thus the gladiatorial games of legend and lore came to be.
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