Root causes of London looting spree

Tre is an up an' coming member of the 'Outlawz', one of Grand Central City's biggest gangs. Crime Life: Gang Wars is all about you're going to help Tre become top dog, all the while protecting his turf from Grand Central's most notorious big-city crooks. You'll be glad to know that the action is primarily fighting. Each battle feels like a make or break opportunity - you'll make your name, or they'll break your face is basically what we're saying here. Your main aim is to defend your crew from the violence and treachery that permeates society. These are words of advertisement run by Konami Games (UK), to attract young boys and girls to buy the video game related to gang wars. In the modern bazaar of lust and hunger for a quick buck, the game and film industry has crossed all limits of luring in the youth to the destructive gang culture. While going through the videos of looting spree in London and scenes of masquerading gangs rampaging through one of the most civilised metropolises in the world, I was trying to answer one big question: What has gone wrong with the youth of the West? One could clearly see five major trends in the London riots: One, the gang behaviour; two, the universality of rowdiness (there were all kinds of gangs - White skinheads, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, boys and girls); three, feeling of disenfranchisement and apathy from society; four, frustration with the symbols of capitalism; and five, directionlessness. While leaving the explanation of these trends to be evaluated by worthy readers, I would make an effort to find the root causes of these trends and also project the fallout of London looting spree on Europe and the rest of the world. We will have to go back in history (about 200 years), when the foundation was being laid for the so-called great experiment in human history. Materialism was taking its final shape and the West was challenging God Almighty and everything associated with religion to prove that man had found the ultimate recipe for happiness. The phrase, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, enshrined in the US Declaration of Independence, became the end of everything, from economic exploitation of weaker societies to the phenomenon of individualism, and from the destructive world wars of the 20th centuries to the creation of economic hitmen of present times. Since the religions moorings rested on pillars of the family system, love of God, selfless social service and the clergy, the new mantra of pursuit of happiness warranted a systematic destruction of each of these pillars. Through the themes of women emancipation, individual lebensraum, winner takes it all, defamation of clergy and population control, every pillar of religion was systematically attacked and raised to the ground within the span of a century. The atomisation of family system destroyed the basic brick on which societies and civilisations build their foundations. The current inverted demographic trends have pushed the West (including Japan) across the Rubicon of impotency, from where a recovery seems impossible. Pat Buchanan declared this trend as The Death of the West. Individualism was pushed beyond limits, not realising that human being is basically a social animal, who seeks and longs for association; no wonder, the runaway kid from a torn family tried to build a gang culture to fulfil the thirst of association, while the father was replaced by the Godfather or the gang leader. Individualism also created serious psychological problems, when the teenaged boy found out that his divorced mother was to live with her nth boyfriend and the boy could not bring in the house his own girlfriend, as the house did not have enough space to accommodate them all. The term My Space was born out of necessity, everyone had to find his 'libensraum, and this proved to be the end of the family system. The clergy (who happened to be the flag-bearer of religion) was the next target. Religious figures were mocked, insulted and restricted to the confines of the Church. The television and Hollywood played the old Jewish game of attacking religion, even the personality of prophets and saints of Christianity were not spared; movies like Da Vinci Code were a direct attack on the sublime and honoured Prophet Jesus Christ (AS). Unfortunately, such ugly ventures were allowed by the Christians in the heart of the biggest custodian of the faith, the United States of America. The Jewish domination of Christian clergy was so complete that few voices, which were raised against these ugly ventures, were silenced by the media in the name of freedom of expression. On the other hand, the monster of capitalism was unleashed on the innocent people of the west and east. John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman gives a bone chilling account of the exploits of capitalism. According to Perkins: Economic hitmen (EHMs) are highly-paid professionals, who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organisations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalisation. The 'winner takes it all philosophy of capitalism gave the smart, intelligent and crook individuals, corporations and governments the right to rob their brother human beings, groups and countries and declared it morally correct in achieving the golden end, the 'pursuit of happiness. No wonder, Bernard Madoff, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch and Double Shah played havoc with the fortunes of the simple (but greedy) people and governments. Even the governments played with public money and indebted their exchequers with trillion of dollars of debt, that is why the biggest economies of the US and Europe have been found to be so hollow from inside and the world awaits another great depression. The youth demoralised by the loss of jobs, broken family system, fear of immigrants (a corollary of poor demography), lack of faith in religion and reeling under exploits of capitalism (where you own nothing, but a credit card for the rest of your life), was left with no choice, but to come out and say it loudly, we are fed up with this God forsaken system To summarise, the current turmoil in Europe is the beginning of the end of exploitative system of capitalism and everything associated with it. Its fallout could lead to civil wars and wars of hate in the West. Since the global economy is linked with this monstrous system and had feet of clay, its fall is likely to generate a tsunami of catastrophic events, which could lead to tragedies unfathomable by the mankind. Maybe Dr Iqbals prophesy is about to become true, who commented on the moral degeneration of the West (in 1906) as: O the dwellers of the West, Gods land is not a shop of business; The glitter of everything you consider Gold will prove to be false; Your creed will commit suicide with its own dagger; For a nest built on delicate branches will not last longer. The writer is an independent columnist and A-levels student.