Look Out, Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’

[marmar]

from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:



Look Out, Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’
August 13, 2011

What made last week’s rioting in London all the more ‘achingly sad’? The rioters weren’t challenging greed. They were celebrating it. We really need to understand why.

By Sam Pizzigati


Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting have gone together for millennia. But the young rioters last week in London didn’t seem oppressed. They struck many appalled onlookers, the world over, as just plain greedy.

That world would watch endlessly looped “images of giddy youths hauling flat-screen televisions out of plundered shops.” One young rioter had “looted so many sweaters from a high-end London store she tottered under their weight.” Another threw a champagne bottle at police.

The morning after one night’s looting, a clerk at a plundered high-end boutique told reporters the looters obviously knew their way around.

“They went straight upstairs where we keep the expensive stuff,” she explained, pointing to where the store kept its £300 — nearly $500 — jeans. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://toomuchonline.org/here-comes-the-%E2%80%98feral-underclass%E2%80%99/

[ret5hd]

1. So they should stick to taking the cheap stuff?

[Starry Messenger]

2. Oh lord.

Where is the outrage when the rich plunder the poor?

[phantom power]

3. "didn’t seem oppressed" -- really?

Opinions differ on this topic.

[malaise]

4. Well I guess the underclass watch the ads on TV

You are no one unless you have all those expensive goods advertised.

Clearly they want to be mindless consumers just like Bush suggested after 9/11.

Go shopping by any means necessary.

Now they complain!
:puke:

[patrice]

5. Power struggles amongst different classes of slaves most likely results only in more oppression

Repeating the crimes, weakness, and errors of others obviates one's authentic grounds for justice.

Somebody has to actually free themselves, before they can try to help free others.