It’s because people can’t help but find thst shit boring. The thing is we gotta do boring shit all the time. Politics and the things like that should be like breathing, brushing our teeth, sleeping, or wiping our ass…it’s all boring but needs to be done.
Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.
It’s because people can’t help but find thst shit boring. The thing is we gotta do boring shit all the time. Politics and the things like that should be like breathing, brushing our teeth, sleeping, or wiping our ass…it’s all boring but needs to be done.
Bread 'n Circuses
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
The dudes part of the problem.