feral1404 Wrote:
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> In a loose play on Juvenal, "panem et circenses"
> has become "beer and football." This formula
> hasn't requiring any retooling for centuries.
> Keep the masses consuming sensory-dulling
> substances and mindless entertainment, and you can
> do anything you want to them in the meanwhile,
> i.e., taxes, pointless laws, confiscation of
> property, etc.
>
> I suppose it's neither right nor wrong, moral nor
> immoral for this to be true; it simply is.
> However, my older brother, a human geneticist at a
> major university in the field of breast cancer
> research, once mused at a gathering of eggheads:
> "What if we could replace the public fervor for
> mindless sports with a similar passion for
> science... salaries included. So many more kids
> would be reading textbooks than handling a ball,
> and we'd be so much further ahead in scientific
> progress." Just a thought.
>
> But nothing will change. The world was ever made
> for the blissfully self-unaware.

If your brother is that upset with his lack of pay and/or notoriety, maybe he should go into a different profession. Don't whine to us about it.