Chris Hedges Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. September 18, 1956
Birthday: September 18
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.
source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011. 
topic: Book, Emotional, Energy, Emotional Energy, Bread And Circuses
