Getting back to the original post... Does anyone else remember the guy on TV news during the early hours of the Katrina debacle, who had written a well-circulated paper or book on the concept that we are only 7 meals from anarchy.
Breakfast-lunch-dinner-breakfast-lunch-dinner-breakfast-riots.
It played out exactly as timetabled in NO. Less than 72 hours, as it happens. An army marches on its stomach, and so apparently does a mob.
Doc,
interesting idea, quick search showed a couple of references, 4 meals and 9 meals from anarchy.
can't find a real article, but a lot of people are talking about it.
Makes you think about the Mormons and their 1-2 year supply of food.
They will be well positioned, if push came to shove. They also have a social system and hierarchy outside the civil system. This helps them work co-operatively.
Sycamore
