Does anyone else remember all this violence years ago, when teams won championships in sports? I never remember this sort of thing happening regularly like it does nowadays.
Not like this, and with such frequency.
It doesn’t happen in NYC.
I remember it. But I’m from Philly. 1974 and 1975 for the Flyers and 1980 for the Phillies. There’s more media coverage now, too.
I’m from New Orleans, not exactly known for its non-violence. When the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, the city broke out some of the most happiest people, criminals and non-criminals alike. Fireworks went off all over the city, but people from all neighborhoods were hugging each other and there was absolutely no crime in New Orleans that night. In fact, for the next several nights. This was a few years after Katrina, so we had a good portion of our population back by then.
No, I saw the Dodgers win the series in 1959 when I was a mere lad, and I remember a parade, because my Dad took me to see it, but no rioting.
When society destroys the ties that bind, when the leaders of a nation undermine familial bonds in order to spread dependency upon the state, when the state treats ancestral religious and cultural traditions as a threat to government power, then the people will follow their basic human natures and seek a new tribe to be a part of.
This isn’t new, it’s happened often enough before. Case in point, the Nika riots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
Anomie is NOT normal, it is not adaptive, and human nature rebels against a kind social, cultural, and moral vacuum. When the state, out of jealousy of power, destroys those institutions and philosophies that create strong, independent individuals, families and communities — effectively waging a war upon group identity — then what you will see is spontaneous (and often violent) attempts to recreate a group identity. And people love a winner.