Thrasherway Podcast
Thrasherway Podcast
A ROMAN CIRCUS IN REAL TIME...
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THE BLACK GLADIATORS ARE STILL IN THE ARENAS ABUSING EACH OTHER, KILLING EACH OTHER AND THE CRACKERS ARE STILL IN THE ARENAS SEEING THE VIOLENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT...
THEY ARE BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN WITH US IN IT.
Hello, beautiful, beautiful black Americans, beautiful black people everywhere. Just a reminder of how I see myself and what I do. My only priority is to always espouse truth and fact. Nothing else. Just truth and facts. I see myself, this entity, this one hundred percent nine ether, one hundred percent human being. I see me as the weapon and my words, my sentences, my short stories are the bullets, the explosives. If I am the gun, then my short stories are the bullets. I see here in America, I see the NCAA, the NBA, the NFL, the MLB, etc, etc, as the Roman circus feeding Christians, to lions, fighting each other until death of one or both, and other distractions from realities. That is what the Roman circus did. Another bullet. I am seeing something here that millions of people in America watch every single day, every weekend, every season, every draft, every playoff, and never see what it really is. Because the spectacle is designed to prevent sight. The Roman circus feeding Christians to lions, fight to death, distractions from reality. That is not an analogy. I am making an identification. It is the same system, having the same function. It is a different century. It is the same specification. The Roman circus. The original specification. What it was. It was the largest arena, two hundred and fifty thousand capacity. And the Coliseum in Rome, fifty thousand capacity. They were not entertainment venues, they were governance tools. They were governing tools. That's what they were. The Roman formula was explicit. And the poet. He was a poet. He named it in the first century AD. He called it Panam P-A-N-E-M-E-T circulines, which means bread and circuses. If the emperor of Rome gave the people food and a spectacle, then they the people will never revolt. They will never ask who controls the grain supply. They will never question the Roman Senate. They will never notice the Empire expanding through bloodletting while they watched blood in the arenas. The Roman circus served five specific functions. First, there was distraction, keeping the populace focused on the arena instead of on the empire's machinery, watching a gladiator die. They will not notice the taxation and the land sieizures, the military campaigns, the consolidation of power. It is happening in America as I speak. Second, purpose was a carstarsis, a catharsis. Channel the population's rage, the population's frustration, and the population's restlessness into the arena. Let them scream. Let them experience the illusion of power, choosing life or death with a thumbs up or down. So they don't use that energy against the empire, the actual power structure. Thirdly, the Roman circus was for social hierarchy display. The seating in the Colosseum was rigidly stratified, the emperor and the senators set at the bottom, closest to the action, the equestrian class above them, the common citizens above them, women and the poor at the very top. Enslaved people and non-citizens was in the arena, not watching. The architecture itself was a map of the social order. Everyone could see where they ranked by where they sat. And fourthly, the Roman circus was for the expendable body, the people in the arena, the gladiators, the prisoners of war, the enslaved people, Christians, criminals was expendable bodies used to fuel the spectacle, their pain, their skill, their blood, their death. All of it was raw material for the Empire's entertainment machine. Public lynching in America. Public lynching in America, an entertainment machine. Some gladiators back then became famous, some were beloved, but fame did not change their status. They were still property, still expendable, still in the arena, while the power sat above it. And number five, purpose of the Roman circus, the normalization of violence. The circus taught the population that violence was entertainment, that bodies were consumable, that the strong deserves to win, and the weak deserve to die. That watching someone suffer is a pleasure field activity. This normalization made the Roman Empire's actual violence, its wars, its conquests, its slavery feel natural. If violence is a sport, then violence is normal. If violence is normal, then the empire's violence is just. That is just how things are. The modern Roman circus is alive and thriving right here in America. The NCAA, the NBA, the NFL, the MLB, etc., etc. There's a big distraction. The American Sport Entertainment Complex is the most sophisticated distraction apparatus in human history. The NFL 17 regular season games. The NBA, 82 regular season games. The MLB, 162 regular season games per team. And the NCAA, its March madness alone, consumed the entire national conversation for three weeks. Football season dominates the fall. The transfer portal, NIL deals, and conference realignment generate year-round content cycles. Combined, there's not a single week of the calendar year without major professional or collegiate sports content dominating American media, social media, conversation, and attention. And while the population in America watches, what are they not watching? They're not watching the school board meetings. They're not watching the zoning hearings. They're not watching the judicial appointments. They are not watching the municipal budgets. They are not watching the police contract negotiations. They are not watching the prison labor labor contracts. They are not watching the water quality reports. They're not watching the voter roll purges. The specification is working exactly as designed. Panam ed circuless. Bread and circuses. Keep your eyes on the arena so they never look at the Empire. And the black expendable bodies are being killed by a thousand hits, a thousand blows every goddamn day. The NFL, the NBA, the NCAA, the MLB are only replicas of the Roman circus. It is a distraction from the realities of having your pockets picked, having your rights diminished, having your money looted from you, having your humanity degraded every goddamn day by crackers that own and control the empire. I do not hate, I elevate.