Why does this sound familiar? Something like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake (luxury bread)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3515122/Kim-Jong-warns-North-Koreans-prepare-chew-roots-country-heads-devastating-famine.html -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3515122/Kim-Jong-warns-North-Koreans-prepare-chew-roots-country-heads-devastating-famine.html
This spoken to the sounds of "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."
The
dictatorship's main state-run newspaper told citizens to brace
themselves for another 'arduous march' - a term used to describe the
great four-year North Korean famine of the 1990s. The warning came in the wake of China agreeing to new stiff sanctions against North Korea, in response to its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
comment: Or as Charlton Heston said in The Ten Commandments "Blood makes poor mortar".
It is nearly always the starving who finally revolt or Les Miserable - the miserable poor. It was those without bread, the French in their revolution, who stormed the Bastille and carried the Bourgeois to behead them with the guillotine.
How long can such a thing go on? Not forever.
Medclinician
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"not if but when" the original Medclinician
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