(10-14-2022, 05:51 PM)Snarl Wrote:(10-14-2022, 05:35 PM)Finspiracy Wrote:(10-14-2022, 05:22 PM)Snarl Wrote: Unless they're really planning to starve and freeze people this coming Winter.
I do not think that a plan like that would work in favor of the ruling elite.
People do not go from "ok" to "starved and frozen" in a heartbeat. There would be massive revolts.
So? Let 'em revolt. Who are they going to revolt against? The invisible? The disappeared?
When they shut off the fuel ... you will freeze if you don't have a fireplace and a stockpile of wood to burn.
You will starve when food stops being delivered to the store ... unless you have the means to take down and bring food to your hearth yourself. 90% of people simply cannot. That's a lot of dead motherflockers.
Historically speaking, when the peasants revolt due to supply chain shortages of survival commodities, they revolt against one another rather than the "ruling elite". The guy down the street with a store of firewood has fewer guns to point at you than the ruling elites have at their disposal, and therefore you have a greater chance of surviving it if you attack him rather than your elites.
Humans almost always go after the lowest hanging fruit.
So a peasant revolt under current conditions is not likely to ever even approach the elites. Folks will be too busy killing one another off and thinning out the herd FOR the elites, leaving a smaller, much more manageable herd as the end product. I have a strange notion that is what this is all about, anyhow.
This last wind storm left an entire tree out of the woods laying across my yard, already seasoned. Picked it up over the perimeter fence and flung it halfway across the yard, such that the fence was not damaged at all. I'm wondering now if that wasn't God trying to tell me something...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’