Just returned from the UK yesterday. You either adopt all points of view or play it safe and have no opinion. The latter having the advantage of being able to react emotionally, but you may stand accused of intellectual laziness, or worse indifference. The irony in this detached observation culture we live in, is when watching wild life documentaries we marvel at how similar animal behavior mimics our own. Yet when dissecting ourselves in these ‘natural’ acts, we prefer to denigrate them as belonging exclusively to primitive sub-species. You can’t have your cake and it. Violence, robbery, riots, social discontent, all share a similar stage but linking actors to one cause ignores the complexity of the human condition. The only constants worthy of consideration are violence is abhorrent and not pretending this is something new.
