{"id":24511,"date":"2017-07-24T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T02:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24511"},"modified":"2017-07-24T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T02:09:53","slug":"the-dynamics-of-a-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24511","title":{"rendered":"The Dynamics of a Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dynamics of a Riot<\/a><\/h3>\n
In my lifetime, I\u2019ve had the misfortune of being present in two major natural disasters and one violent social crisis. Each taught me valuable lessons.<\/div>\n
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In the aftermath of a natural disaster, there\u2019s the danger of the loss of shelter, services, and food. In most cases, people who experience the loss of shelter and services realise that \u201cthings are bad all around\u201d and they tend to do the best they can, accepting that life will be hard for a period of time.<\/p>\n

Food is a different matter. People, no matter how civilized, tend to panic if they become uncertain as to when they will next be able to eat. And, not surprisingly, this panic is exacerbated if they have dependents, particularly children who are saying, fearfully, \u201cDaddy, I\u2019m hungry.\u201d As Henry Lewis said in 1906, \u201cThere are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.\u201d Quite so.<\/p>\n

But this is not the only cause of riots. In the post-1960 period in the West, a new phenomenon has occurred that has steadily grown: Governments and the halls of higher education have increasingly taught people that they are \u201centitled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Governments have been guilty of this for millennia, beginning at least as early as the \u201cbread and circuses\u201d of ancient Rome. It\u2019s a way for governments to get people to be dependent upon them and thereby to do their bidding. But, since the 1960s, it\u2019s become a systemic norm.<\/p>\n

And it always ends in the same way. The false economy of \u201cfree stuff\u201d eventually devolves into overtaxation and economic collapse. When it does, people are more likely to riot, as the entitlements are \u201cowed\u201d to them. In today\u2019s world, however, this condition has peaked far beyond what the world has ever seen before.<\/p>\n

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The Dynamics of a Riot In my lifetime, I\u2019ve had the misfortune of being present in two major natural disasters and one violent social crisis. Each taught me valuable lessons. In the aftermath of a natural disaster, there\u2019s the danger of the loss of shelter, services, and food. In most cases, people who experience the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11658],"class_list":["post-24511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-jeff-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24513,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions\/24513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}