Sunday, November 27, 2011

These riots reveal some unpalatable home truths | Hari Kunzru

8:50 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

We have created a culture where fear and greed rampant at all levels of homelessness. If we do not, we have to make a change

There's nothing like fear and hatred to sharpen the senses. The riots revealed some unpleasant truths about Britain itself, which makes it impossible to keep a number of Whig history social progress, in the teeth of the evidence sought to rely on ourselves.

As violence broke out at Tottenham, which seemed to follow a familiar pattern. A young black man is killed by the police. "Community", he protests. Violence continues. On Monday, the story was finally broken. The crowd burned cars and breaking into the stores were, as one friend said dryly, "a triumph of multiculturalism." Obviously, another explanation has been found.

Suddenly, we're talking about a new class. The fantasy of class British floated around our national consciousness, at least since the 1980s, when he was supposed to become flesh in homeownership mass and the ability to hold shares in BT. In recent years, the fantasy was supported by cheap credit, which provided the illusion of the material prosperity of a nation that has long been deprived behind.

In a society that has abandoned or devalued most forms of mutual assistance for a solipsistic enterprise, it is not surprising that, at the end of good times, people will help you . Fear and greed are the ruling passions. This is true of boys breaking store windows to steal the coaches. It is also true of MPs fiddling their expenses, the police take bribes, journalists behind the phones. Why not? Why not us? The example was given by our new masters, one percent for whom and by whom we are governed. The ability of the most powerful players in the financial markets to socialize risk and privatize profit seems, farmers financially indistinguishable from organized crime. There is no reason for the rest of us to be at the ceremony.
  • It may be objected to this rhetoric (= thieves bankers) with the argument that the markets have a social utility that bankers and traders not to hit (not need) and sometimes give to charity . One can also think that any attempt to understand the motivations of the protesters risks shaded in the justification. The strongest opposition to any argument based on the social conditions that so often made to individual responsibility, regardless of economic or social status, not everyone chooses to behave in a particular way, that s' insider acting and knock Evans Cycles. However, it is difficult not to think that we have a culture in which the hard drive fast and are encouraged to think that they have no responsibility to halt and lame. Now that the wheels are falling from the global financial system, fear and greed are free to wander without control, without worrying about hiding his face.
The average British entrepreneur is a bit scary, lonely and insecure, jealous, not only the banker living in style, but the "good immigrants", Sikhs and Turks and permanent shoulder Bengali outside their shops, mosques and gurdwaras, ready to repel the attackers. Cash and stripped of the organic community (leaving aside the question of whether it ever existed), we have that we dressed in rags of class identity and class hatred. The poor hate the rich and the "federal" to enforce its laws. The rich hate the poor, scared.

guess I should not have been surprised to see many of the supposed social liberal reveals his true colors on Monday night, Twitter and bleating of curfew and water cannons and rubber bullets . Earlier in the evening, watching the media, I watched the variations of the same joke: "I am in Chiswick / Hampstead / Dulwich Waitrose and there is a riot POLENTA exhausted!" The feeling of sufficiency of the trip (it's nothing to do with me or my life comfortable middle class - is a matter of poor people in places they choose not to go) has been replaced by panic. "Where is the army?" Live civil liberties, the time to declare martial law. Is it easy to install fascism in this country just squeaking! No need to torch the Reichstag - all you have to do is to burn a few sports shops

was irritating to see people who had recently praised the street fighters of Arab spring found inside Mubarak, people were surprised (shocked!) that dictators in the Middle East, which had closed the internet now use the BlackBerry Messenger (only heard) to close. We can applaud the community spirit of revolt cleaning people, but not comfortable on the motivations of a blonde mop-carrier photographed using a tank top with the slogan hand-drawn "looters are scum." It's okay to call people slag this week, especially while demonstrating its own civic virtue. Come, fair lady, that his hatred for the flag that floats.
Soon gutted buildings will be demolished and 24 hours and the courts to relax, and we will try to pretend not to slip allowed our hoods, which shows how afraid of each other that we are . Once a powerful woman who told us that there was no such thing as society and dedicated to the engineering of our country to meet his theory. Well, she got away. Here is where we live now, and if we like, we have to make a change.


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