Πηγή: The Coming Depression
August 9th, 2011 at 11:07 am
“This is not a surprise at all because social breakdown is a slow process. Some years ago We came to the sad conclusion that the UK was spiraling downwards in front of many peoples eyes – and despite effort on many peoples parts to make it a better place. For decades UK political “leaders” have been asleep at the wheel.
From the spawn of Thatcher’s “there is no such thing as society”, through Blair’s “I only care about my image on the international stage”, to Brown’s “give out lots of money, but expect no social responsibility, from people who might vote for me”. We think the problems are deep and pretty much ubiquitous.
Indeed, the societal breakdown of Europe is going to plan as evidenced by the UK’s secret policy to employ mass immigration to destroy national identity. As the Daily Mail shows, “Labour threw open the doors to mass migration in a deliberate policy to change the social make-up of the UK, secret papers suggest. A draft report from the Cabinet Office shows that ministers wanted to ‘maximise the contribution’ of migrants to their ‘social objectives’. The number of foreigners allowed in the UK increased by as much as 50 per cent in the wake of the report, written in 2000.”
Despite attempts to paint this as some sort of ethnically-neutral event, ethnicity was a big factor here. The supposed trigger was the shooting of a gun-toting Yardie, who brandished his weapon at police. Even in Toronto’s recent parade melee, with a similar chain of events (Gangster of Colour shot dead by police, for refusing to drop his weapon), the streets didn’t go ablaze. There are many reasons for this, but the big one is that the ‘community’ from which the dead thug hailed was a VERY SMALL minority of the local population. Contrast this to the Villanueva riots, or even the Quarter Million Tamil March. Along with everything else, Britain has to take a hard look at how decades of mass immigration–which dramatically increased during the New Labour era–and multiculturalism created ethnic enclaves of people who avenge the deaths of their criminal heroes.
Humiliation: A young man is forced to strip to his underpants in the street, having apparently already handed his t-shirt and trainers to a black looter. There were unconfirmed reports last night of victims being made to strip in Deptford, south London, and in Birmingham.
And it’s not just third world immigration that’s the problem, but the EU’s no-border policies that are exacerbating ethnic and economic tensions, by removing Britain’s control over its population. A nation-state can’t function without control over who settles within its boundaries. Britain is experiencing this, with EU immigration (Eastern Europeans, etc.), which is overwhelming local housing and social services. A similar problem exists in U.S. border states, which have defacto open borders with Mexico: laws like SB 1070 (requiring state and local police to enforce Federal immigration law) arising out frustration with both ‘sanctuary cities’ and a Federal Government which simply refuses to enforce border or immigration controls. And, in Britain, it was the Right’s heroine, Maggie Thatcher, who started dismantling border controls, by getting rid of exit visas.
The last rounds of riots in London over the past year were the last gasp of the middle class kids there: post secondary education fees tripled in one fell swoop.
For those kids with even LESS options in life? A sense of even less to lose.
This isn’t apologetics. The conditions of poverty and consumer culture gone mad (the hottest items to loot are new tracksuits and the latest sneakers no doubt) bring out the horde of kids who advertising most aggressively targets, drunk on instant gratification and all the hatred and frustration they discovered when the paradise of false dreams was denied them.
All the destruction and looting is deplorable. Something has goaded them into it however. The long history of crime, mob culture and “us and them” in London carries on, yet another chapter cited by Dickens when he wrote “the best of times, the worst of times.” That place thrives and kills itself on contradictions. The default state of an uneasy peace will return to the streets, with less amplified tantrums of their cult of youth, wanting it all but having it constantly denied. Most of them *will* grow up. Others will turn to a quieter desperation of self-destructivity.
This is not only Britain’s problem but our problem everywhere across our world, in the West, the East and the Centre where hordes of young people without education, unread, unlearned, ignorant but not stupid, loutish, lazy without prospects or futures, understanding, compassion, empathy, jobs and especially without hope of ever legitimately getting the ‘stuff’ they crave, cars, televisions, clothes, shoes, bling and baubles. You know, the things pushed at them relentlessly every few minutes while they’re watching their parents television sets in their parents houses in the bedrooms they’ve inhabited since childhood, the very ‘stuff’ that our economic system depends on to grow and fatten the wallets of investors and traders, speculators, bank presidents, corporate CEOs and all the other non-producers who also live pointless all-consuming lives but with ‘stuff’ they own and think they have worked for and therefore deserve, all this is the reason that the many without ‘stuff’ want ‘stuff’ and will burn, smash, pillage and take what they want at will, while the authorities agonize and in puzzlement continue to ask, Why?
The moral-economy riot is a well established phenomenon. This type of riot occurred routinely in 18th century England due to food shortages. During the Cholera epidemic, communities rioted in Britain because the poor felt exploited. We are probably seeing the effects of perceived socially deterministic conditions on strong community identities reinforced by their shared economic status. The police cannot stem the belief systems that people create to cope with perceived exploitation. Today we have food being priced out of reach to the general populations of even places like US where food stamp use has been increasing dramatically in recent years due to inflation caused by the devaluation of fiat currency.
So, in bad times, it is really convenient to think that affluent people can just give up on the poor. They can cut off a part of society and assume compliance. But this behavior also permits the crowds to create their own perceptions of legitimacy. Of course, sometimes the crowds actually win.
Riots on the way for North America, Canada, USA
There is a growing proportion of under 30 self employed individuals in North America. Canada’s new jobs in May (22,000) were in the retail sector and almost all of the rest were in self employment. For the regular to high paying jobs, Canadians are being forced to compete with educated and skilled immigrants, many of whom are among the most educated in their home countries which have many times more people than Canada.
Higher self employment figures means less job security making it harder for young adults to settle down and have a family.
Once the US cuts kick in, in a few years, this will happen in the USA.
Fake conservative economists say foodstamps have to be cancelled, as the US can’t afford to feed its children. As the billionaires can’t afford 1% more in tax. When those cuts hit the US underclass, its going to be a disaster far worse than this. Indeed, food stamps are being cut left and right in the US as we speak.
The real criminals are the politicians who fight deficits on the backs of the poor and middle class and all the greedy voters who support them. Trimming deficits requires careful and efficient budgeting AND increasing progressive tax rates in order to fund critical public assets (education, libraries, parks, etc.) and social and health services. Wealth is very, very disproportionately concentrated in a small percentage of the population and they just idly play with it. Time to redistribute assets more equitably. Sounds like revolution is in the air.
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