The majority of the population needs only bread and circuses.

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Bread and circuses!
History, as you know, repeats itself twice. Once in the form of a tragedy, the second time in the form of a farce.
Let me remind you, just in case, the original Roman history of "Bread and circuses!"
"Bread and circuses!" (Latin panem et circenses) is an expression from the 10th satire of the ancient Roman poet Juvenal, used by him to describe the aspirations of the Roman people modern to him. Juvenal contrasted the modern depravity of morals with the heroic past: This people has long ago... forgotten all worries, and Rome, which once distributed Everything: legions, and power, and lictors bundles, Is now restrained and only dreams of two things restlessly: Bread and circuses!…

Juvenal here refers to the Roman practice of distributing free grain (Cura Annonae) to Roman citizens, as well as expensive circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means to gain political power.
The expression "Bread and circuses" was used to describe the policies of statesmen who, bribing the plebs with distributions of money and food, as well as circus performances, seized and held power in ancient Rome.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Therefore, as long as people have TV and money for fast food to fill their bellies and then watch some kind of stupid TV show, there will be no revolutions and uprisings.

 

[MasterHero]

Yes this is how were are kept in control and sedated.

Food stamps, drugs, video games, social media, Netflix, news drama, porn. A population sedated on frivolous hedonistic distractions is unlikely to revolt.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

Yes this is how were are kept in control and sedated.

Food stamps, drugs, video games, social media, Netflix, news drama, porn. A population sedated on frivolous hedonistic distractions is unlikely to revolt.

Therefore, I do not believe that there will be a revolution somewhere in Europe or North America. Most revolutions have always occurred because people had nothing to eat, as was the case in France in 1789 or Russia in 1917, when a delay in the delivery of bread in February 1917 provoked mass demonstrations and rallies. The only exception is the American Revolution of 1776. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe was also caused not by the fact that people needed freedom of speech and elections, but simply by a shortage of consumer goods.

 

[MasterHero]

Therefore, I do not believe that there will be a revolution somewhere in Europe or North America. Most revolutions have always occurred because people had nothing to eat, as was the case in France in 1789 or Russia in 1917, when a delay in the delivery of bread in February 1917 provoked mass demonstrations and rallies. The only exception is the American Revolution of 1776. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe was also caused not by the fact that people needed freedom of speech and elections, but simply by a shortage of consumer goods.

Yeah it won't be revolution. Another thing is the population is aging and old people rarely revolt.

The West will just slowly decay and it collapse. Falling birth rates and rise of deaths of despair will chip away at society. They will try to compensate with immigration but it will just accelerate decline as new immigrants have a different culture distinct from the west.

 

[underballer]

ppl aren't reproducing