[lbo-talk] London Riots anew

[// ravi]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:47 PM, c b wrote:
> James Heartfield
> 
>> That is why fully ninety per cent of Britons polled think that there
>> is absolutely no excuse for the rioters behaviour. Those respondents
>> are not in the grip of false consciousness. They just don’t think that
>> it is a great thing for a lot of young men to smash up the
>> neighbourhood, without any obvious reason other than having a lark.
>> 
> ^^^^^
> CB: So, you leave it as inexplicable.  Somehow all these young men
> suddenly just went on a destructive lark; it was spontaneously
> generated deadly criminality and profound disrespect for private
> property.  90% of Britons are really that shallow, including you ?
> You are reacting like ostriches.
> 

It’s cyclical, mate. Chaos theory and all. You see it’s the plietesials. Once every 12 years the hills of the Nilgiris come alive with the Kurinji flower, attracting the Yammering Lark away from its traditional migratory path. Having had their fill of the rare nectar, the diminutive birds follow their now northwest course to England’s green and pleasant land. Where they are met with the well known and unfortunate preference of British youth for Tandoori Lark. Outcome: rioting for larks. Nothing political to it. The reason’s in the season.

	—ravi