Now people are more affected or care more about a rapper's shoes that caused "Satanic Panic", then they are about the fact we are not alone.
bread and circuses
it works until pirates cut off the supply of Egyptian grain, or until the Vandals ride up to your city gates and take a burnlootmurder tour
even then, nobody else cares, either...
until their OWN bread & circuses run out
amen to that