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1!!{{Fan Work}}s
2->''"Do you know what happens when the people don't have something to focus on? They ''think''. Think about what they don't have, what others do have, their station of life and how isn't good enough... and soon those thoughts turn into 'What can I do to get more?'"''
3-->-- '''Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish''', ''Fanfic/AManOfIron''
4
5!!{{Film}} -- Animation
6->''"Let's all remember to follow the instructions (''quietly into the microphone'') ''[[AndAnotherThing oryoullbeputtosleep]]''. And don't forget about Taco Tuesday this week!"''
7-->-- '''[[PresidentEvil President Business]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie The LEGO Movie''
8
9!!Film -- Live-Action
10->''"If you want to people in front of the televisions instead of rioting in the streets, you can't do it with reruns of ''Series/GilligansIsland''. ''(beat)'' You know...''Gilligan's Island?'' ''(hums theme tune)'' Yeah, the one with the boat."''
11-->-- '''Killian''', ''Film/TheRunningMan''
12
13!!{{Literature}}
14->''The [Shifting] Revel was a citywide debauch, a rowdy public service the duke was happy to underwrite from his treasury. There were few things like a good Revel to pull the fangs from any unrest before it had any time to fester.''
15-->--''Literature/TheLiesOfLockeLamora''
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17->''“The key to the Empire maintaining control over the lands it conquered isn’t fear, my dear, it’s apathy. As long as the common people can go about their business and live their lives mostly untroubled, what do they care who their taxes go to?”''
18-->-- '''The BlackKnight,''' ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''
19
20!!LiveActionTV
21->'''Kalik:''' Amusement is prohibited. It's purposeless.\
22'''Pletrac:''' Zarb is considering lifting that restriction. The latest thinking is that the latest outbreak of violence among the functionaries is caused through ''lack'' of amusement.
23-->--''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters}} "Carnival of Monsters"]])
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25->''"The people are hungry for more than just food; they crave distractions, and if we don't provide them, they will create their own. And their distractions are likely to end [[EatTheRich with us being torn to pieces.]] A royal wedding would be much safer, wouldn't you say?"''
26-->-- '''Lady Olenna Tyrell''', ''Series/GameOfThrones'' ([[{{Recap/GameOfThronesS3E5KissedByFire}} "Kissed By Fire"]])
27
28!!{{Music}}
29->''I'm so happy and you're so kind\
30You want more money, of course I don't mind\
31To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes\
32And the public gets what the public wants''
33-->--"Going Underground", '''Music/TheJam'''
34
35->''This is the future\
36of an illusion,\
37aggressive culture\
38of despotism.\
39Living fantasy\
40of an immortal;\
41the reality\
42of an animal.''
43-->--"Contronatura", '''Music/{{Stereolab}}'''
44
45->''I've never seen a diamond in the flesh\
46I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies\
47And I'm not proud of my address,\
48[[WrongSideOfTheTracks In a torn-up town, no postcode envy]]\
49But every song's like [[HookersAndBlow gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom]]\
50Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room,\
51We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams\
52But everybody's like [[ConspicuousConsumption Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece]]''
53-->--"Royals", '''Music/{{Lorde}}'''
54
55->''So you'll keep on craving the circus\
56Until all your knowledge is lost\
57Disabled by poisonous comforts\
58A slave to the grind at any cost\
59One by one we'll lay siege to all freedoms\
60And finally to liberty's walls\
61You'll shed no tears when they crumble\
62No, you'll be demanding they fall''
63-->--"Blood Red Dawn", '''Music/{{Keldian}}''
64
65->''Take what small comfort there may be left\
66Seize what you love and damn all the rest\
67Panem, circenses, credulous descent\
68A Gadarene charge into endarkenment''
69-->--"Endarkenment", '''Music/AnaalNathrakh'''
70
71!!StandUpComedy
72->''"Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's ''Series/AmericanGladiators''. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is ''American Gladiators''. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny do as we tell you!]]"''
73-->--'''Creator/BillHicks'''
74
75->''"I think [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] sent that girl to Kobe’s room. Bush sent that girl to Kobe’s room, Bush sent that little boy to Music/MichaelJackson’s house, Bush killed Laci Peterson. Bush was fucking Paris Hilton in that video. All to get yo mind off {{UsefulNotes/the war|On Terror}}."''
76-->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock''', ''Never Scared''
77
78!!{{Theatre}}
79->''Fellow Ozians, as terrifying as terror is, let us put aside our panic for this one day... and celebrate.\
80Oh, what a celebration we'll have today / Thank goodness / Let's have a celebration the Glinda way! / Thank goodness!''
81-->-- "Thank Goodness" song, ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''
82
83!!{{Video Games}}
84->''"[[MadArtist Cohen's]] not a musician. He's Ryan's stable boy. Ryan's corrupt policies crap all over the place, and Cohen flutters around clearing it up. But instead of using a shovel, like you would with a proper mule, Cohen tidies with a catchy melody and a clever turn of phrase. But no matter how nicely it sounds, he can't really do anything about the smell..."''
85-->-- '''Anna Culpepper''', ''VideoGame/Bioshock1''
86
87!!WebOriginal
88->''Thanks to a little thing called The Internet, finding out if you’re about to perform for a dictator-type has never been easier. For example, you could throw their name into a search engine with the words “is maybe a dictator?” and see what comes up. Or you could use email and see if you receive any concerned emails from human rights groups with the subject line: “So I heard you’re about to perform for a dictator…“. Or, if you’re Music/NickiMinaj, you say “Fuck it” and perform for the dictator anyway.''
89-->--''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/12/20/today-in-not-great-decisions-nicki-minaj-performed-for-a-dictator/ DListed]]'', "Today In Not-Great Decisions"
90
91->''Every Pats fan derives SO MUCH of their own self-worth from the Patriots' perennial success. It's really a scourge too because you have all these shitheads who never left their own hometowns and who really ought to be thinking about self-betterment or at the VERY LEAST coming to the realization that they're worthless just straight sitting on top of the fucking world. Like life is just perfect when you set aside those two divorces and looming foreclosure, tie on a nice 7-beer buzz at 8am and swerve down Route 1 to Patriot Place!''
92-->--''Deadspin'', [[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-new-england-patriots-1629216508 "Why Your Team Sucks 2014!: New England Patriots"]]
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94->''Every [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] season now is just America waiting for the Chargers to stop existing. They already have vacated this plane of reality in terms of fans, sponsors, playoff presence, cultural relevance...And yet, they remain. Think of the professional devastation you’ve witnessed over the course of this year. Entire segments of industry have been annihilated. Your favorite restaurant probably isn’t coming back. Your schools may never open again. Every gym and amusement park is now an unofficial biohazard. All that shit is gone. And THIS is what gets to remain? This fucking team? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This is so fucked I’m gonna start hyperventilating into a paper bag.''
95-->--'''[[https://defector.com/why-your-team-sucks-2020-los-angeles-chargers/ Drew Magary]]''', "Why Your Team Sucks 2020: Los Angeles Chargers"
96
97->''As you may already know, Qatar's World Cup infrastructure is being built using Moses-era slavery practices. One of the stadia will probably be [[{{Egopolis}} in the shape of a lion with Sepp Blatter's head.]]''
98-->--'''[[http://screamer.deadspin.com/the-usmnt-should-boycott-the-2022-world-cup-1692435025 Drew Magary]]''', "The USMNT Should Boycott The 2022 World Cup"
99
100->''Some people think the media business is tough, but think of it like teaching preschool. There's a whole range of strategies, but one of them, guaranteed to work, is walking into class every morning and handing out giant tubs of ice cream. The Fox lineup is the media equivalent of this: a giant pile of tits, explosions and football.''
101-->--'''[[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rupert-murdoch-is-deviant-scum-20151013 Matt Taibbi]]'''
102
103!!RealLife
104->''Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: [[TropeNamers bread and circuses.]]''
105-->-- '''Creator/{{Juvenal}}''', Satire 10.77-81
106
107->''Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.''
108-->--'''David Hume'''
109
110->''Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.''
111-->--'''Marshal [=McLuhran=]'''
112
113->''The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.''
114-->--'''Music/FrankZappa'''
115
116->''...the rich grow more arrogant, the poor more desperate, all while the ubiquitous television set keeps showing consumers without cash how well the few live, not a wise thing to do.''
117-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Palimpsest''
118
119->"For instance, take this supposed big phenomenon that swept the country in [[UsefulNotes/TheSeventies the 1970s,]] the 'Culture of Narcissism', and the 'Me Generation' and so on. I'm just convinced that that whole thing was crafted by the public relations industry to tell mainly young people, 'Look, this is who you are--you don't care about all this [[SillyRabbitIdealismisForKids solidarity and sympathy and helping people]]...You don't ''want'' to achieve anything, all you want to do is consume more."
120-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''
121
122->''BTW, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground, and all you people care about is my bullsh*t?''
123-->-- '''Creator/CharlieSheen'''
124
125->''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 150 people died yesterday]] and what the news is reporting is [[Music/{{Zayn}} a kid]] leaving [[Music/OneDirection a band]]. What has the world come to?''
126-->-- '''Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz''', March 26, 2015
127
128->''If [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis]] had won, of course, things on the surface would eventually have settled down to an appearance of normality. The milkman would deliver his milk in the morning, the policeman would enforce the law, the doctor would cure the sick, people would still worry about their jobs, fight with their wives, save for a new car. But they would be living in a nightmare, buried in a graveyard of human hope and dignity, trapped in a hell they would never recognize, much less question. The long dark night would have begun, and finally man would not even remember the light.''
129-->--'''Albert Speer''', in a 1971 interview with Magazine/{{Playboy}}
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