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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Over70irregs" data-source="post: 6103009" data-attributes="member: 59424"><p>Bread and circuses" is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food or entertainment.</p></blockquote><p></p>