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Bread & Circuses
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Topic Started: Nov 18 2015, 01:58 PM (195 Views)
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Nov 18 2015, 01:58 PM
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Pat / PRW / Paying Customers Alike :
You know, there's this writer, Robert Heinlein. He was a great Sci-Fi writer and one of the most respected voices of the genre. A long time ago, Heinlein had this quote that always stuck with me as I went through life.
He basically said that as a society we are a laboratory example of what can happen to society, and what has eventually happened when people seek "democracy and change" throughout history.
In his estimation, a perfect democracy, a "warm body’"democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. Instead it depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens.
That ends up being a problem when that wisdom is propped up against the lack of self-restraint of other citizens. You have those who will work to uphold the society and those who will just leech off it.
You see, Heinlein describes eloquently that what is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. What ends up happening is that he votes in line with his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as "Bread and Circuses."
As Heinlein puts it, "Bread and Circuses" is a cancer, a fatal disease for which there is no cure.
Democracy often works in theory, but once power is given to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, society as you know it begins to crumble.
When the plebs and the peasants discover that they can give themselves "bread and circuses" without restraint and that the productive members of society cannot stop them, they will do so, until the society bleeds to death.
That's what we have here in PRW.
We have an established society being shaken by people calling for change, people suddenly believing they have the right to power and strength. What we have ended up receiving is "Bread & Circuses".
The main man leading that little revolution? He's Patrick Slaughter, a man who has never been able to see the forrest through the trees.
He's the parasite, one of those plebs, one of those peasants who never produced. He never changed the game, he never brought innovation, he never grew the brand. PRW, much like Slaughter's career, fell stagnant under his leadership. Hell, so did the Onslaught.
But the people, they cheered for him and followed him regardless because ultimately, they're easily molded and manipulated. They'll cheer what you tell them to cheer. If you sell them a bag of goods, chances are a good majority will buy it.
PRW fans have bought the Patrick Slaughter narrative for years; how he's a Franchise Guy, how he's the face of PRW, but when is the last time that Patrick ever really changed the game in PRW? When did Patrick Slaughter ever bring this company forward?
He never did. He just sold the people on revolution and change. He sold them on the idea of a person like them being able to one day make it and become a focal point. He sold them on the idea that if you work hard enough and the stars and the planets align, you can be "The Man".
It's a fucking lie.
It takes more than hard work and hope. It takes skill and talent. It takes an unparalleled level of dedication. It takes everything that I, Alex LeBlanc, have and have proven to the masses that I have time and time again.
I have led PRW out of the dark ages before. I brought innovation. I brought success. I brought the company forward. I may have been labeled a tyrant, but everyone was getting fed when I was in charge. When Patrick Slaughter ruled the roost, he was preaching hard work and hope, but we were failing to sell out arenas and people were bored.
PRW has never been led by words and hope. It has been led by force and displays of power. Call me a tyrant, but I am the Last Emperor and it was under my will that PRW grew to the heights it now claims as its own.
Who brought you success? Who brought you Sparta? Who MADE those "revolutionaries" that you cheer so fiercely?
I did.
So please, keep following your paper lion. Please continue putting your faith in a man who never led you anywhere.
You can have your "Bread & Circuses".
Meanwhile, I'll take back my throne and lead everyone out of the darkness one more time.
Because I am Alex LeBlanc.
I am the "Last Emperor"
And I'm still the Best Professional Wrestler PRW Has Ever Seen.
- AL
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