bridges falling down

Rioting and looting are mere criminality?  Not so.  It is theatrical criminal behavior: an acting out of unposessed power, apparent solidarity, unfulfillable appetites and greed.  They put upon their heads the ancient crown of stones, because it is has presented both itself and a stage, upon which, one may feel momentarily that one is not a eunuch, a crowdsman, almost an animal, although yesterday and tomorrow and tomorrow, one is.  Rioting is a sort of public masturbation, and as empty and offensive - and telling - as that.