https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/statement-of-a-prisoner-3bf2bf21d8ed#.mi7vuf1xt

“You are and were born into the modern ‘example’ of what our estranged histories present as The Coliseum. A place where slaves, free citizens, and the elite gathered in order to be entertained by extreme violence, torture, and death. For a price. And by this practice, they had some apparently bizarre form of social and human ‘connection’. That is, this was the sort of behavior “around which they would organize being together as a body”.

It’s hard to imagine. Until you turn on the computer … or the radio… or the television. Until you go to the store. Or the internet. Or even your mother’s home. Because now, the Coliseum is not in an Amphitheater.

They moved it into our homes, minds, expectations, and lives.

Directly.

This is the Coliseum. You. Right here. Reading this. Now.”