Which philosopher am I thinking of
 

I'm trying to remember which ancient philosopher had stuff about how the failure of certain civilizations is always marked by gladiator sports and obsession with sex. Anybody? Thank you

I think it was Joe Namath....

My wife, St. John’s Annapolis grad, offers the following:

Joe Tacitus.

Marcus Arilius Namath.

Willy Joe Seneca.

Broadway Joe Augustine.

Beaver Falls Plotinus.

That’s all she’s got.

^Clever one she is.

I knew Bugs Bunny wuz wrong so I just kept my yap shut :D

That's good, because I was almost through the Greek philosophers and hadn't found the passage yet and that meant starting in on the Romans. Gross.
Foxworthy, eh?

Mediocrates?

Never mind. He was famous for, ehh…good enough.

Seems like the plot line for Idiocracy.

Every one of those after Joe Tacitus was Howard Cosell saying it in my head

Edward Luttwak wrote Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire in the '70's and I read it in college.

He writes a rebuttal to yet another criticism of his book here: https://freebeacon.com/culture/roman-rebuttal/

The article is great and smug but has some information I had lost...specifically the who and where with the Roman's.

Your answer may lie within!

I would guess that sounds right up Socrates's alley.

He also presented that the problem of democracy is that the average voter isn't necessarily smart and politicians catering for the most votes would as such work the dumb voters with populist ideas rather then good governement.
And that is Real world now and Ideocracy the documentary shows the further evolution of that.

Vote Camacho.

Couldn't be Socrates.
The first gladiator fight was at a Roman funeral in 264BC.
Socrates died about 150 years prior to that.

Sounds more like a Christian philosopher.
Possibly Augustine of Hippo.

I have a feeling you're thing of :

Carl Spackler

The Dalai Lama, big hitter