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“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:32 pm
- Alfred Henry Lewis
If this continues and people don’t get back to work, are unable to provide, and have the essentials to eat, Lewis’s statement could be pretty real here.
I may even go with the under on this.
How many meals would you have to lose for fear and panic to set in?
Hell; go to any meat department in any grocery in New Orleans right now. And some governors are calling for lockdowns until June?
If this continues and people don’t get back to work, are unable to provide, and have the essentials to eat, Lewis’s statement could be pretty real here.
I may even go with the under on this.
How many meals would you have to lose for fear and panic to set in?
Hell; go to any meat department in any grocery in New Orleans right now. And some governors are calling for lockdowns until June?
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Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:42 pm to Errerrerrwere
Indeed, the "thin veneer of civilization" can disappear much more quickly than most people realize.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:43 pm to Presidio
Hell, I may join in even if I have food.
Burn the whole thing down!
Burn the whole thing down!
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:44 pm to Errerrerrwere
I'm down to my last bowl of Frosted Flakes. So things are getting serious.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:46 pm to Errerrerrwere
I guess I missed the part where many people are making more daily on unemployment than they were previously while working
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:47 pm to Errerrerrwere
If we are in lockdown past the end of May, we will see blood. It might come sooner.
Already happened in Italy and China.
It’s going to get worse when people realize 30% unemployment doesn’t just “go away”.
Already happened in Italy and China.
It’s going to get worse when people realize 30% unemployment doesn’t just “go away”.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:47 pm to Langland
I like a good joke, as well.
But if crops, meat, eggs, and milk are depleted , there’s going to be some serious hell to pay.
But if crops, meat, eggs, and milk are depleted , there’s going to be some serious hell to pay.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:47 pm to Errerrerrwere
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:14 am to Errerrerrwere
Well he's talking about lack of food.
Not fear of going to the store.
How many bowel movements are we between mankind and anarchy?
Because you can still find plenty of food at the store.
Not fear of going to the store.
How many bowel movements are we between mankind and anarchy?
Because you can still find plenty of food at the store.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:16 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Because you can still find plenty of food at the store.
What happens when your $1,200 runs out?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:17 am to Errerrerrwere
Unemployment pays well, that $1200 is not all
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:17 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Well he's talking about lack of food.
Have you been to a grocery store in a hard hit area? What’s the difference between lack of food and not being able to get food when you are laid off?
This post was edited on 4/1/20 at 1:48 am
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:18 am to Redleg Guy
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Unemployment pays well,
I bet you know this well
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:29 am to Errerrerrwere
There's not an instance reported of food shortages.
Just TP.
Hell, you can order tons of food online.
You can't find TP.
Nobody is starving absent fears of going to the store.
"Hardest hit?" By fear and overreaction? Canned goods are mostly gone but people willing to go out, fresh stuff is all there. It's only the assholes who hoarded trying to ruin it for all of us.
Just TP.
Hell, you can order tons of food online.
You can't find TP.
Nobody is starving absent fears of going to the store.
"Hardest hit?" By fear and overreaction? Canned goods are mostly gone but people willing to go out, fresh stuff is all there. It's only the assholes who hoarded trying to ruin it for all of us.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:39 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
So, if this last through June everything’s rosey with you?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:40 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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There's not an instance reported of food shortages.
Go look at a grocery store in New Orleans.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:40 am to Presidio
I've always tended to side more with Hobbes than with Locke. Human nature can't be solely characterized by what you see during good times. Bad times are the true test of character. And as Hobbes put it, human nature is such that:
"(T)here be no propriety, no Dominion, no Mine and Thine distinct; but (only) that to be every man's that he can get; and for so long as he can keep it." Hobbes viewed the state of nature as one of war "of every man, against every man." He believed that in this natural state, "(E)very man has a Right to every thing; even to one another's body" and that a man's life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
That may sound severe, but the relative world peace we've seen post-WW2 amounts only to a fraction of human history, and it took the deadliest conflict in human history to get us there in the first place. We may not be as civilized as we think we are.
"(T)here be no propriety, no Dominion, no Mine and Thine distinct; but (only) that to be every man's that he can get; and for so long as he can keep it." Hobbes viewed the state of nature as one of war "of every man, against every man." He believed that in this natural state, "(E)very man has a Right to every thing; even to one another's body" and that a man's life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
That may sound severe, but the relative world peace we've seen post-WW2 amounts only to a fraction of human history, and it took the deadliest conflict in human history to get us there in the first place. We may not be as civilized as we think we are.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:43 am to Errerrerrwere
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Have you been to a grocery store in a hard hit area?
Yes, every one in NOLA is fully stocked.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:44 am to RedStickBR
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We may not be as civilized as we think we are.
Exactly. Food, loss of income, anxiety, and the guy with a great job a MONTH ago; now doesn’t have one, the mental issues. This could get bad. And I fear this more than the virus.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:45 am to Errerrerrwere
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Go look at a grocery store in New Orleans.
LOL, you're a damn idiot!
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