across Britain as directionless fury, a selfish grab for goods at the expense of damaged local businesses (why wasn’t McDonalds torched to the ground for example) and a full on excuse to prey upon the weak and unwary in wolf like packs. Now before you start
thinking I’m just another Guardian subscribing passive reactionary that reads like all the rest of the media coverage and opinion, I now wish to explore some of the sickening irony and shootings in the foot these events are made of. The state of society has always been an excuse that has given certain of those of underprivileged and unstable upbringing ‘carte blanche’ to burn down, steal from, damage irreparably, beat on, stab, drive into a wall at high speed etc, anyone and anything their frustrated and envious eyes bear down upon. But it also seems the very architecture of state accommodation is built to encompass and purport this violence: Labyrinthine stretches of homogenous concrete as high as the clouds and equally as windy crowded to bursting point with the surplus of population affected by market downsizes, mergers, and abolitions of key industries in favour of outsourcing to the Third World, subliminally browbeaten into the acceptance that there’s ‘no way out of this zone’, or ‘no more jobs exist’, even ‘those foreigners coming over here stealing our livelihoods’, and before we get to the whole ‘anchored to this state of perpetuity by the imposed chains of state benefits’