August 12, 2011
Food for Thought
One of the outcomes of the public disorder from the past few days has been a huge supply of analysis and thinking around society and related issues.
I've not been reading very much of it (I've got a rather fractured relationship with things like Twitter, and 24-hour news, at the moment - hopefully I'll find the time and the way to unpack some of that into a blog post soon) but these are some of the things that I have read which have seemed the most interesting, or the most thought-provoking.
I don't agree with everything that they all say, but they seem to provide some use in giving me different ways to explore my take on events...
- "America": Consumerism and the End of Citizenship
- Most of the kids are alright
- The UK riots: the psychology of looting
- The Liverpool Riots Do Not Indicate That Our Society Is Broken
- Dave Haslam's Manchester perspective but equally applicable elsewhere.
Tags: ukriots liverpoolriots society citizens
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