we be the mob, I guess

we be the mob, I guess

fiction
edward w pritchard

When one is young, with prospects and many years to achieve expected greatness it's fun to make jests at the Roman Mob and how they were skillfully manipulated with bread and circuses by the Roman Aristocracy . Bread being for them, food and circus being entertainment.

Today in America some invisible hand manipulates us the mob. Most of us have become part of the Mob. We are given bread in the form of food stamps and entertainment in the form of social networking and the various forms of texting one's acquaintances the comings and goings of one's life. As an example one might text to one's circle of friends: I am going to Pizza hut, too bad they won't take my food stamps.

Point of story, food stamps should be accepted for fast food, cigarettes and booze, cable and internet, if they are not already to keep the Civil peace.