Order of Man - Bread and Circuses ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart

00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.

00:00:10.480 You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who

00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,

00:00:27.980 and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the movement, The Order of Man.

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00:01:59.880 we get into the meat of the discussion today, which is on the topic of bread and circuses,

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00:04:14.440 slash legacy. All right, guys wanted to share that with you real quick, but today I want

00:04:19.120 to talk with you about the idea of bread and circuses. Now, a lot of us have heard this

00:04:23.580 term. A lot of us have understood to some degree what this means. I think a lot of us have

00:04:28.480 probably experienced this, but at the end of the day, what I mean when I'm talking about

00:04:31.760 bread and circuses is I'm talking about the media. I'm talking about politicians. I'm talking

00:04:36.860 about any sort of outside figure and their ability to buy us off with bread and circuses.

00:04:43.400 The fact that I think a lot of us just want to be entertained so much so that we consume

00:04:48.760 the most trivial and ridiculousness of nonsense out there that we possibly can. And we jump to

00:04:56.380 conclusions and we make rash decisions and we get heated in conversations and debates

00:05:01.340 and arguments with people that we don't know on social media and we are being entertained

00:05:05.440 to death. We are being enslaved in a way and we don't even know what's happening because

00:05:11.220 we're being so distracted by the nonsense that's out there. And this nonsense could be some dude

00:05:17.820 who decides to stage an attack that he said was racially motivated. It could be about some washed

00:05:25.760 up football player and his decision to make a stand and the NFL deciding to pay him millions

00:05:32.760 and millions of dollars over this ridiculous thing, whatever that was all about. It could

00:05:36.900 be just being distracted by famous people who are famous for being famous, which is a really

00:05:43.080 weird thing to say. What man likes what man and what man likes what woman and what woman

00:05:48.620 likes what man and what man wants to be a woman and what woman wants to be a man. And we've

00:05:52.500 got all of this crazy nonsense out there and it's sad. And frankly, it's pathetic. It's

00:06:00.520 pathetic that we have become so consumed by this nonsense that has no relevancy in our

00:06:06.800 lives. That doesn't help us be better fathers. It doesn't help us be better husbands or business

00:06:11.940 owners or community leaders. It doesn't help us usher our kids into manhood. It doesn't or

00:06:16.820 or to help them learn what it means to be a woman. It doesn't help us improve our health. 1.00

00:06:22.160 It doesn't help us improve our career aspirations. It helps in no possible way. And yet we spend

00:06:28.520 hours upon hours upon hours every single day consuming ourselves with bullshit. And it's devastating.

00:06:37.960 It's devastating to our own well-being. It's devastating to our families and our communities

00:06:42.960 and the people that we as men are supposed to be serving. So today's message is a call

00:06:49.460 not to be distracted and fooled by the bread and circuses that those who would distract us

00:06:55.440 are trying to buy us off or bribe us with. It's a call to think about life a little bit more

00:07:02.180 critically, to dive a little deeper, to have more relevant conversations and engage with people in a

00:07:09.480 meaningful and significant way for ourselves and for the people that we are called to serve

00:07:13.780 in whatever capacity that looks like for you. Now, most of you have heard this term bread and

00:07:19.380 circuses to some degree. You've heard it been tossed around before, but I was doing a little bit of

00:07:24.380 research for this podcast and I came across some writings that I wanted to share with you because I

00:07:29.340 think even though most of us know the term bread and circuses, we don't know the context in which it

00:07:33.420 comes. It's actually from a man by the name of Juvenal. He wrote a series of lectures or articles,

00:07:41.580 whatever you want to call them, called satires. This one is satires 10 and in it he describes what he

00:07:48.140 means by bread and circuses or bread and games. I've heard it translated both ways, but he talks about

00:07:54.600 how politicians are buying votes using bread, food, bribes, and games, expensive, lavish games to

00:08:05.280 distract us from what's really going on. And then of course, to buy our votes. And that's what's

00:08:10.020 happening in modern times. Politicians, news outlets, media conglomerates, social media is using

00:08:17.380 these cheap entertainment tactics to buy our attention, to buy our votes, to buy our attention,

00:08:26.700 to buy our time. And then what are they doing with it? They're selling it. They're selling it to the

00:08:31.200 highest bidder so that they can then capitalize off our time and attention and energy. And what's sad

00:08:37.540 about this is that the better these organizations get at this, the more profitable they become,

00:08:43.440 the stronger, the more powerful they become at our expense, because we can't see through the cheap

00:08:49.200 circus tactics that they're employing against us. So I'm going to pull just a quick excerpt out of

00:08:53.940 these writings, satires 10 by Juvenal. And here's that excerpt. And what does the mob of Remus say?

00:09:02.100 It follows fortune as it always does and rails against the condemned. That same rabble, if Norsha had 0.99

00:09:08.720 smiled upon the Etruscan, if the aged emperor had been struck down unawares, would in that very hour

00:09:14.520 have conferred upon Sejanus, the title of Augustus. Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long

00:09:21.400 since cast off its cares and the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else

00:09:29.860 now medals no more and longs eagerly for just two things, bread and games. And again, I've heard it

00:09:38.600 translated as bread and circuses as well. I think that last sentence is so powerful and very, very

00:09:45.820 indicative of what we see in society today. Now I'm going to read it again. Now that no one buys our

00:09:51.700 votes, the public has long since cast off its cares. The people, us, the people that once bestowed

00:09:58.840 commands, consulships, legions, and all else now medals no more and longs eagerly for just two

00:10:06.580 things, bread and games. If that, which was written in, I believe 120 AD, if that does not perfectly

00:10:16.220 describe the environment in which we find ourselves with governments, with social media, with the media

00:10:22.140 outlets, I don't know what does. It's scary. It's a little freaky, quite honestly, that has been

00:10:31.000 described so well, roughly 2000 years ago. So as I rant and get on my soapbox and talk with you about

00:10:39.160 how damaging and discouraging it is to see how many good, honorable, well-intentioned, intelligent

00:10:46.260 men get sucked down this hole of bread and circuses. I want to talk with you about 10 strategies that we

00:10:54.280 can utilize in our lives, not to be sucked down this hole, to focus more deeply on the things that

00:10:58.940 matter, to actually be relevant, to, to focus on the relevant things in our lives and not be bought

00:11:04.080 off, not be bribed, not be sold and not focus on things that don't actually matter. So let's break

00:11:09.760 this down, jumping right into them. Number one, learn to curate your content, whether that's on social

00:11:14.920 media, whether that's the books you read or the videos you consume, or the music that you listen

00:11:18.680 to, the more that you curate your content, the better off you're going to be. If you're putting

00:11:23.660 nonsense and trivial garbage and filth into your mind, it's inevitable that what's going to be

00:11:30.300 produced, the outcome of the filth that's going into your brain is, is going to be the thing that's

00:11:35.420 manifest. It's going to be the thing that yields is because you're putting in garbage. You're going to

00:11:39.920 yield garbage. So guys, we have social media. I'm not suggesting that you do away with it.

00:11:44.440 I'm not suggesting that you even be ignorant or that you ignore what's actually going on.

00:11:48.440 I'm just saying, curate your content. All right. If it's negative or if it's damaging or if it's

00:11:54.740 not real, or if it's quote unquote fake news, or if it's outlandish or outrageous, scrap it from your

00:12:01.200 life. All right. You don't, you don't need that stuff in your life. What you need is positivity.

00:12:06.100 What you need is relevance. What you need is things that are uplifting. What you need is things that are

00:12:10.300 real, things that actually matter, things that have relevancy in your direct life, things that

00:12:16.520 will impact you and your community and your family, things that are important. And we have an ability

00:12:21.380 to use social media to curate this stuff. Most of us just use social media and magazines and articles

00:12:27.400 and books and podcasts and everything else that you happen to consume by default. Just however,

00:12:32.300 the founders wanted us to use their product. I'm telling you to be more intentional,

00:12:37.780 more deliberate about it and curate what's coming into your feed and what isn't coming into your

00:12:41.740 feed. That's number one. Number two, maybe even consider unplugging altogether, not indefinitely,

00:12:47.360 not forever, not with everything. But if you notice yourself getting sucked down the rabbit hole in

00:12:53.060 some particular platform or some particular conversation or some YouTube channel or some

00:12:58.020 news station, just unplug, just unplug, get yourself out of that environment, get yourself out of that

00:13:04.780 situation and get yourself into a situation that you can control, that you can manage,

00:13:10.800 that you actually care about. And that is relevant again in your life. Number two, unplug. Number three,

00:13:16.440 prioritize and execute. Prioritize and execute. Not everything that comes into your life is worth

00:13:24.140 your attention. So if you're getting some sort of update about some thing that we're supposed to be

00:13:33.300 outraged, that some organization tells us that we're supposed to be outraged about today, and that

00:13:38.460 isn't relevant in your life, don't pay it more attention than it deserves. The more that you talk

00:13:42.780 about this nonsense, the more that you lend credibility to the nonsense. Just prioritize and

00:13:48.880 execute. This is important. Bump it up the list, spend more time and attention on it. This isn't important.

00:13:54.460 Bump it down the list and spend less time and attention. Don't talk about it. Don't dwell on it.

00:13:59.480 Don't debate it. Don't argue. Don't have conversations about nonsense. Just put it towards

00:14:05.240 the bottom of the priority. Don't even get to it because you've got so many other things that are

00:14:10.140 worth your time and attention, your family, your wife, your kids, your career, your health, your

00:14:14.560 fitness, so many other things that are more relevant, more important than all of the craziness that other

00:14:22.220 people would have us listen to. And make no mistake, these organizations are capitalizing on that.

00:14:28.320 I said that before. They are capitalizing on your finite resources, time and attention. Those are

00:14:34.160 the most valuable assets you have. And yet we subconsciously and involuntarily give away these

00:14:41.060 things so willingly to some other organization. It's absurd. So number three, prioritize and execute.

00:14:46.820 Number four, wait 48 hours on news. All right. If we get some news and it seems crazy and it seems

00:14:53.420 outlandish and it seems too good to be true. And it's too wild. It's likely that it is.

00:14:59.160 It's likely that it is. If it's news in 48 hours, then maybe it's a little bit more relevant.

00:15:06.120 Maybe it's something that you should pay attention to. And of course, there's going to be things that

00:15:09.560 come up. Maybe it's a natural disaster or some sort of warning that we need to be aware of that.

00:15:14.520 Yes, we should be aware of that now, but if it's outrageous and outlandish guys,

00:15:19.260 don't get sucked into it. Don't rush to conclusions. We saw this with this staged attack

00:15:26.320 that I was talking about earlier. Uh, we saw this with a bunch of high school kids and a native

00:15:33.000 American Indian who were arguing, but they weren't arguing and they were being racist, but they weren't

00:15:38.260 being racist. And nobody actually knew what was going on because people jumped to conclusions and

00:15:43.520 they're trying to buy your attention with outlandish claims that may or may not be true.

00:15:47.720 This is the crazy stuff I'm talking about. Just wait, just wait. If it's relevant,

00:15:53.040 it will still be relevant in 24 to 48 hours. So just wait a couple of days and then address it.

00:15:58.640 Then number five is here, both sides of an argument. We get stuck in these echo chambers. I do too.

00:16:06.420 And you might even consider order a man at times an echo chamber, because we attract very similar

00:16:11.500 people, very similar men who think the same way we do and have the same ideas and thoughts that

00:16:16.120 makes sense. But what I do suggest that you do is look for both sides of the story. We don't need to

00:16:21.320 be conservative Republican or liberal and Democrat. Uh, we could be somewhere in the middle. We could

00:16:27.440 sit on both sides at times or one side or the other, depending on the issue. These are the things

00:16:31.560 that are, are meant to polarize us. The more that we are odds with each other, the more that we can be

00:16:37.640 manipulated and coerced and distracted from real issues because we're always down each other's

00:16:42.520 necks. We're at each other's throats over nothing. So try to hear both sides, be open and understanding.

00:16:48.320 And even if you hear both sides, I'm not suggesting that you pick another side. I'm suggesting that you

00:16:52.800 hear another side, and then you can make more realistic, relevant decisions based on how you

00:16:58.060 should live your life with more perspective, with new information at hand that you haven't

00:17:03.120 previously considered. So here are both sides, try to understand both sides, and then you can

00:17:08.660 make a decision moving forward. Uh, number six, don't argue with idiots. Now I've been doing this

00:17:15.740 podcast and order of man for four years, and I'll admit that even now I still fall prey to this at

00:17:22.620 times. For the most part, I'm pretty good about this at this point, cause I've set up some rules

00:17:26.440 and I'll talk about that here in a minute, but I don't argue with idiots. Will I argue and debate

00:17:33.100 with somebody who doesn't agree with me? As long as there's a clear motive and intention,

00:17:36.040 and we're coming from the same place that we want to have a civil discussion about this.

00:17:39.680 Yeah, I will engage in a debate, but I won't argue with idiots. There's a great Proverbs. It's a

00:17:44.540 Proverbs 26, four. It says, answer, not a fool, according to his folly, lest thou also be like

00:17:51.680 unto him. Let me read that again. Cause that one hit me deep. Answer, not a fool, according to his

00:17:58.520 folly, lest thou also be like unto him. In other words, if you argue with an idiot, you too are an

00:18:07.300 idiot. So just disengage. Not everything needs to be debated. You don't need to get into arguments.

00:18:12.680 You're not going to convince some people. And even if you do convince somebody, so what,

00:18:17.460 what is the point? Focus on what you can control, which is the people in your circle. And don't worry

00:18:23.280 about the rest. There's going to be idiots out there. You don't need to debate and engage with these

00:18:26.720 people, which leads me to my next point. Number seven, pick your battles. Not everything has to

00:18:32.980 be your battle. There's going to be certain things that aren't relevant to you. You don't want to go

00:18:37.460 out as my friend Rourke Denver says, and die on a hill that you're not interested in dying on.

00:18:43.520 And yet when you engage in these debates and you get sucked down the rabbit hole of outlandish,

00:18:49.240 outrageous claims and conversations and headlines, that's exactly what you're doing. You're saying that

00:18:55.100 this is a cause worth fighting for. And yet, if you took back a step back and objectively looked

00:19:01.260 at it, you would realize very quickly that this is not, in fact, an argument worth fighting for,

00:19:06.500 worth dying for, a battle worth engaging in, that it's just something stupid and you momentarily got

00:19:12.300 caught up in it. So if you're spending time, for example, as I am on this podcast, talking about

00:19:18.980 bread and circuses, then you've said that this is a battle worth fighting. And for me, it is.

00:19:22.820 If you're debating whether people should love each other or sexual orientation or who you should be

00:19:32.140 outraged by or race claims or anything else, and you're debating and arguing about that, you have

00:19:38.020 said either consciously or subconsciously that this matters to you, that it's a battle worth fighting

00:19:43.420 for. And if it is good, fine. As long as you're deliberate and intentional about it, but don't get

00:19:48.380 sucked into battles that you aren't interested in fighting or engaging in number eight, try to

00:19:54.780 understand others motives. If you can understand people's motives, understand other organizations,

00:20:02.180 motives, then you give yourself the, the framework or the perspective to understand what it is they're

00:20:08.880 trying to do. Are they trying to have a real conversation with you or are they trying to rally,

00:20:13.420 rile you up? And if they're trying to rile you up, why is it that they're trying to rile you up?

00:20:16.880 Let's take the media. For example, is it in the media's interest to give you unbiased,

00:20:22.600 real information? The answer is certainly no, that's not necessarily in their best interest.

00:20:29.940 What is in their best interest? Because if you think about how they're paid through advertisers

00:20:34.740 is to get as many eyeballs for as long as possible onto their platform. And if they can be outrageous

00:20:42.780 and they can be wild and they can be crazy and they can pit people against each other,

00:20:47.500 they're going to get your attention and energy and eyeballs on their stories, on their websites,

00:20:52.980 on their podcasts, on this, on that, on their platforms longer, which means that their ads

00:20:58.740 can be sold for more. That's it guys. They're selling your outrage. Understand that when you're

00:21:05.800 outraged about something, they're selling it, literally selling your outrage for a dollar amount

00:21:13.740 for a profit. And they're benefiting because you aren't in control of yourself enough to realize

00:21:19.920 what's going on and then actually acting accordingly. So try to understand what is it, the motive

00:21:26.800 or what is the motive I should say of those organizations or people or politicians or media outlets

00:21:34.380 or social media channels? What is their motive? Uh, number nine, keep your eye on the prize guys.

00:21:39.800 We, we have this weird thing in society and look, I'm, I'm saying these things, these 10 items to

00:21:45.540 myself, just as much as I'm saying to you, but we have this weird thing where we are distracted by

00:21:50.680 the bright and shiny object, right? The newest social media profile, the newest story, the newest

00:21:56.420 headline, the newest tabloid. It comes out and we are just enthralled by it. We want to know about it.

00:22:03.480 We want to know everything about it. You, you go to the grocery store, for example, and you look on

00:22:07.320 the rack as you're checking out and you see all these crazy magazines with these outrageous

00:22:11.460 headlines. You're like, I got to know about, uh, John Travolta. And I got to know about the Royal

00:22:16.720 family. And I have to know about how this person was offended and what this other person was upset

00:22:21.560 about. I got to know, I got to go to know, you don't need to know because none of that has any

00:22:26.000 relevancy towards you losing weight or you salvaging your marriage or you reconnecting with your

00:22:31.100 children or you advancing in your career or all of the other things that I hear from you guys

00:22:35.260 on a daily basis. When you tell me what it is you want to accomplish. And yet you say those things

00:22:40.420 and then the very next breath or the very next minute, you're giving your attention to some trivial

00:22:45.000 nonsense that doesn't matter or move you towards the prize that you're after. Ask yourself is what

00:22:51.260 I'm consuming right now, including this podcast is what I'm consuming right now, moving me in the

00:22:57.940 direction of the things that I want. Is this podcast giving me what I want? Is that magazine

00:23:04.680 giving me what I want? Is me tuning into CNN or Fox or MSN or whatever, giving me what I want?

00:23:13.720 Is it helping me be a better man, a better father, a better husband, a better business owner,

00:23:17.480 community leader, coach, mentor, whatever facet of life you're showing up as is that information

00:23:22.680 helping you get there? If the answer is yes, by all means, read that book, watch that show,

00:23:28.560 listen to that magazine, consume that podcast. If the answer is no, tune it out. It's not moving

00:23:34.200 in the right direction. And number 10, educate yourselves, educate yourselves. I think that these

00:23:41.160 social media outlets, these big media conglomerates, they pray off the ignorant. They pray off of

00:23:47.400 people who don't know any better. They're too dumb or ignorant to actually consider that what

00:23:54.340 they're learning is not real. It's not accurate. It's not truthful. It's not relevant in their life.

00:24:00.680 So the more that you can educate yourself by tuning into information that is relevant,

00:24:04.540 hopefully this podcast falls in line. Hopefully some of the books that I recommended fall online.

00:24:09.360 Maybe there's other podcasts that you're listening to and books and social media channels and people

00:24:14.020 that you're following or engaged with. Maybe, maybe you're in some sort of formal education,

00:24:18.200 but you're learning things that apply to you that are going to help you achieve what you want to

00:24:23.320 achieve in your life. The less educated you are, the more, and I'm not talking necessarily about

00:24:29.720 formal education, but the less educated you are, the more likely I believe it is that you're going to

00:24:34.600 fall into these traps. If you're poor and ignorant and broke and not intelligent about these things and

00:24:40.320 don't really understand the ramifications of what you're learning, you're more likely to consume that

00:24:44.020 and potentially even maybe you like consuming it because it's distracting you from your own

00:24:48.340 inadequacy. And when I say that, I know that people are going to hear that and think,

00:24:52.440 Oh, Ryan's being too mean or he's being too harsh and this and that. Maybe, maybe I am,

00:24:57.320 but it's also the truth. It's the truth that these people and organizations are preying upon you.

00:25:03.860 If you're weak and unintelligent or uneducated or ignorant, don't be that you have a choice.

00:25:12.660 You don't have to remain in that state. You have an opportunity to learn, to educate yourself

00:25:17.380 and to gain some understanding about the topics and the things that have been being thrown around.

00:25:23.660 So that's it guys. I was a pretty quick one, but man, bread and circuses, this needed to be talked

00:25:29.260 about. It's just, it's absolutely ridiculous. What I see in society and what we're supposed to quote,

00:25:33.820 I should say, quote unquote, supposed to be outraged about. I don't need to be outraged about

00:25:37.620 anything. I don't feel like being outraged about. And I'm not going to have some organization

00:25:41.020 or media or social media company. Tell me that this is the thing to be upset about this week.

00:25:45.940 This is the thing that all of us are going to pick on today. Let me read this last quote again from

00:25:50.580 a satires 10. Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares.

00:25:56.860 The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else now medals,

00:26:03.720 no more and longs eagerly for just two things, bread and games. So that's what I've got for you

00:26:11.100 today, guys. I hope that helps. Let me go through these really quickly again. Write these down. If

00:26:15.020 you need to share this podcast too, if you notice somebody who just gets consumed and sucked into

00:26:20.440 this nonsense, then share this podcast with them. Number one, curate your content. You can,

00:26:25.820 all right. You don't have to, your feed doesn't have to be by default. You actually get to be active

00:26:30.260 and how you manage your feed on some of these things. Uh, number two, unplug altogether. Just

00:26:34.480 unplug, just unplug. You don't need to be plugged in that thing. You're not going to miss out on much

00:26:38.320 unplug. Uh, number three, prioritize and execute because not everything is worth your time and

00:26:43.140 attention. Number four, wait 40 hours on news. Number five, hear both sides of an argument before

00:26:49.640 you decide to stick your nose or neck in the argument. Uh, number six, don't argue with idiots.

00:26:55.180 I gave you the proverbs, which is a answer. Not a fool. According to his folly,

00:26:59.160 lest thou also be like unto him. Number seven, pick your battles. Number eight,

00:27:04.160 understand the motives and intentions of others. Number nine, keep your eye on the prize. And number

00:27:08.600 10, educate yourselves guys. We can do better. We've got to do better. If we want to be meaningful,

00:27:14.960 if we want to be significant, whether that's doing a podcast like this or meaningful in the walls of our

00:27:20.280 home or within the walls of, of the businesses that we're running or a part of, then we've got to

00:27:24.860 stop getting caught in this nonsense, this shallow discussion, the things that those who would pray

00:27:31.560 upon us would love us to be outraged about the things that they want us to fight and bicker about

00:27:36.380 and bitch and moan and complain about. We've got to do better. We've got to go deeper. We've got to 0.71

00:27:41.280 educate ourselves. We've got to be smart. We've got to be rational. We've got to be stoic, even though

00:27:46.520 we're told not to be stoic either. These are the things that are important. These are the things that

00:27:50.840 are going to help you thrive as a man. They're the things that are going to help you connect with

00:27:54.720 kids, re-engage your wife, lose weight, grow the business, start the business, ask for the

00:28:00.060 promotion and do all of the things that I know you want to accomplish in your lives. Because I hear

00:28:04.020 from you guys every day telling me what you want to accomplish. Don't be the one who says, I want to

00:28:08.700 accomplish X, Y, and Z. But all the while you're being distracted and manipulated and tricked and

00:28:14.660 fueled into giving more of your time and attention to things that don't matter. Don't be bought off

00:28:21.700 by the bread and the circuses. Focus on what matters. Go deep on issues that are important to

00:28:28.700 you. Pick the right battles. Focus on the right things. Get out there, take action, and be the man

00:28:35.280 you are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast. If you're ready to take charge

00:28:41.320 of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be, we invite you to join the Order at

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