London Riots
“What needs explaining is why they don’t occur, not why they do occur.” – Roger Scruton. There are two types of states in which we live in, two types of state in which we have, repressive and ideological. The repressive state, police and army, are paired with the ideological state, the media, to prevent a return back to unstable chaotically organised life. We create and construct order every day because quite simply we feel impelled to; it has become part of our nature to have a strict sense of order. Civil order occurs because people choose to follow the rules and law; it is a voluntary cooperation however the London riots of 2011 can be seen as a portrayal of the “natural state” of mankind with the rejections of the laws and social conventions. This linear and strongly stratified way of living is helpful in explaining how rioters, who become disillusioned with the façade, wanted to fight back and break the barriers that isolate and trap them. Thomas Hobbes a...