I keep seeing posts/stories about people being outraged at Cracker Barrel, but nothing is at all clear

[markodochartaigh]

5. We have almost completed our transition from citizens to consumers.

Instead of facts and logic, beliefs and branding are central to our being.
It isn't the first time that this has happened.



iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, / panem et circenses.

... 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: bread and circuses.

—Juvenal,