So they can't even do nihlism and anarchy properly. What ARE they teaching in the schools these days?
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There will always be pirates, ‘though not always in ships.
/mark
To think that America is in much better shape than England/Europe with their youth mobs. Yobs, are they?
So at the state fair on beat WT night it's the Blobs? Sad and frightening.
I was in Chicago visiting a frail, elderly friend. We were having a nice time shopping on the lovely Miracle Mile, stopped in a Walgreen's for something, then went on our way.
The next day I read that a huge Blob came in to “get sandwiches” (don't you love the media), but terrorized everyone in the store and roughed up the poor clerks.
The thought of my tiny, sweet little friend, alone, when a mob of animals invades makes may blood boil.
I'm very angry right now. I think the decent people in America and Western Europe need to get angry and decide who is going to win this.
What kind of people behave this way? Those who have come to think of wealth as an infinite pile from which everyone grabs as much as they can. This is where the ethos of the socialist left and hip-hop comes together.
What we are seeing in the British riots is this combination of young white anarchists/socialists and black underclass thugs. That happened in the recent Oakland riots, too.
Frankly, I think it's less accidental and fortuitous than the author appears to believe. Mob violence has always been one of the strategies of the left for destabilizing society so that it can take over.
It IS about “race” (as well as culture and civilization) and the flames are being fanned by our “post racial” president.
With cell phones you have instant communications. A flash mob can appear, vanish and reappear at a moments notice. How do you fight that? Good read, thanks.
"Small business is the backbone of human freedom. The small businessman is able to negotiate commercial arrangements with individuals and groups outside the dominance of larger authority. But small business is on the decline. The corner store is likely to be run by outsiders, in Detroit as in London. And around it are chain stores, franchised or not, that are primary targets of looters. Loot them enough and all that's left is a hopelessly unrecoverable ghetto."
Normally this would be viewed as a self-correcting problem where the crims smashing up businesses and looting stores are in a sense votes for barbarism. The free market is quick to decide if the occasional burning down of the store, or killing of a clerk is worth the coin that might miraculously see itself as profit. When the costs and risks exceed any potential benefit, the market decides that this "voting block" would prefer squalor, chaos, decay and lawlessness over the benefits of ordered civilization.
Unfortunately, once these feral beasts soil their own nests, they demand that they are accepted back into civilized society without ever demonstrating remorse or even an interest in profitably participating.
This happens in both the macro and micro environments. The national government actively pursues injecting the poison of third world barbarians into civilization through their liberal application of immigration quotas, while in the hamlets and villages, city council people are constantly seeking ways to expand public housing in stable communities thinking that there is no amount of garbage that can be poured into wine before the wine itself is garbage.
It seems that human nature hasn't changed since expulsion from the Garden, and market forces would have adequately separated the riotous hordes from the peaceful as has happened since Babel. The culprit in violating these natural forces, is once again government.
Great quote, we're just going back to simple times where people rob you to your face instead of using politicians to deduct it from your check routinely.
And the shooting of many more of them, as they riot, would be the signal for them to stop.
Bring back public hangings behind the county sheriff's office, and watch the crime rate plunge.
Today we have welcomed this underclass to our shores and worse created some of our own, Now they are here and the survival of Western Civilization is truly at stake.
Nice post
As The Theophilus says in post #8? The police and the State will be on the side of the looters and takers, as pols and public sector unions are looters and takers themselves.
I saw this same thing happen in 75 at my high school. Three days of “riots” where by blacks roamed the halls in a pack, beating up anyone who did not run away.
The school officials could not control the blacks so they “controlled” the whites. On the third day whites came to school ready to fight back. So the cops with their sheilds and batons arrested all the whites and let the blacks go on about their business.