The riots became "the inkblot in a kind of national Rorschach test: Everyone sees in them the political issue they care about most." So Anne Applebaum, writing for The Washington Post, said.

A Culture of Greed

But is the real issue behind the extraordinary behavior just politically driven, and is it even endemic to one social class, a supposed underbelly of civilized society, or can we push aside the diseased social and political branches to expose an insidious and all-pervading root – a global culture of greed?

While acknowledging the realities of the socio-economic issues that lit the flame of discontent in London, perhaps the underlying cause is a matter of priorites, the choice of which permeates the entire western civilization. A sweeping glance at western society indicates by our very striving for it, that our priority is acquisition; acquisition of wealth, possessions – he ,or she, who dies with the most toys, wins.

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