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by SideburnsOfDoom
433 days ago
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> I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but "a revolution is three meals away." Funnily enough, I was looking at this saying recently.
There are several variations so it's hard to find the "one true version". The canonical version is more likely: "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. " - Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Lewis Implying that roughly three days of total breakdown of essential systems would cause societal breakdown. One day wouldn't do it, but it wouldn't last a week. Is it true? That's not for me to say, and lets not run the experiment. The versions where the quote is "three meals" and the version where Lenin or Stalin said it don't appear to be accurate. |
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