This blog will make you uncomfortable. It will attempt to wake you from the blissful slumber of the masses, and make you question what you thought you knew.
Panem et Circenses is latin for Bread and Entertainment, a Roman concept for how to gain public approval without actually providing exemplary leadership. Through this technique the leaders of the Roman empire could do whatever they wanted without fear of the public discovering their crooked schemes. That technique lives on.
Every month of every year there is at least 1 (almost) mandatory celebration. Valentines day, April Fool's, Saint Patrick's day, Mother's day, Father's day, President's Day, Independence's day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc, etc. (just to name a few)
This is Panem it Circenses at work, keeping you busy, keeping you happily preoccupied so that there is no room left in you brain to process the truly important things.
But I want to change that. Hence the name Veritas Contendo, which is latin for Truth Struggle - what it will take to keep people informed. This blog will be constantly updated with whatever new information I find and I urge you to discover it with me. It will make you question even the tiniest of rituals.
Every month of every year there is at least 1 (almost) mandatory celebration. Valentines day, April Fool's, Saint Patrick's day, Mother's day, Father's day, President's Day, Independence's day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc, etc. (just to name a few)
This is Panem it Circenses at work, keeping you busy, keeping you happily preoccupied so that there is no room left in you brain to process the truly important things.
But I want to change that. Hence the name Veritas Contendo, which is latin for Truth Struggle - what it will take to keep people informed. This blog will be constantly updated with whatever new information I find and I urge you to discover it with me. It will make you question even the tiniest of rituals.
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