A taste of the future

What notionally started as education protests in France have unravelled into something much more unruly. These things have a way of taking on a life of their own until they become wanton destruction for its own sake. It has not gone unnoticed who is doing most of it, along with the ever-present flag of the Islamo-leftist revolution. Of course, everyone will craft their own narrative to suit. Expect absurd equivocation. No lessons will be learned.

As it happens, I don’t think it’s all that serious - yet. It is not out of the ordinary for France. We’ve had similar in the UK, not least the Croydon riots. It doesn’t take very long for life to return to normal, and for everyone to forget about it. The needle returns to the start of the song, and we all sing along like before.

It is, though, a small taster of how bad things can get, and how things will get. This is what happens when you have a surplus of useless people. You can pretend this disorder is all about education, or the lack of opportunities, but there is never going to be a place in society for barely domesticated, barely literate animals who should never have been admitted in the first place.

What makes a broader unravelling inevitable is the deindustrialisation of Europe, along with an already fraying social contract. Moreover, the kind of services work that employs otherwise useless migrants is contingent on disposable income, which is fast becoming a thing of the past. Things are just too badly degraded, and our politicians far too inadequate to avoid an increased tempo of disorder, and it’s only a matter of time before it is Europe-wide. It is further exacerbated by a weak response from security services.

It also points to what could happen in the event of right wing governments attempting to do something about it. One bungled deportation raid and we’re looking at a cascade of violence. There is no scenario where this problem simply goes away. The future holds mass disorder events beyond the capacity of the state to bring under control - especially with a police force still hamstrung by political correctness and racial sensitivity training.

There are certain precautions the state could and should make, but in all probability will not. While the looting is opportunistic, there are elements to this disorder which are orchestrated by subversives, the kind who should be closely monitored by police, but they will instead fixate on the “far right” and the intellectual effort will go on curtailing social media. Meanwhile, whatever transpires, the far right will find inventive ways to blame Jews.

What makes things especially precarious for Britain is the creaking state of the national grid. Today we’ve seen erratic frequencies going outside the normal range, and if it keeps up, and there’s a cold and still spell, then we’re going to need rioters to set cars on fire if only to stay warm. There is also the small problem that if riot do ransack our towns, we’d be hard pressed to notice the difference (looking at the state of some of them). Looters are going to be sorely disappointed unless they’re looking to stock up on vape fluid.

The main takeaway from this latest round of disorder is that it plays into the hands of European populist movements such as FN and AfD, but they still have time to blow it completely. I’m of the view that this street level disorder is a symptom of the political impasse where no single party or faction is able to secure an unassailable mandate. This is certainly the case in Britain where the right is split three ways and neither main faction is an appealing prospect, thereby handing a dysfunctional Labour party another term.

The real danger, I think, is not a sudden flare up of violence. It is that low level disorder becomes so frequent that we become indifferent to it and simply adapt to it as the new normal. In some respects we are already there. We now broadly accept that we have lost our cities, to the extent that serious unrest doesn’t directly affect the native population. It simply becomes a spectator sport.

It may even be that the civil war narratives circulating on X this weekend are wishful thinking. Civil wars are movement towards a resolution of sorts. A worsening of the status quo just means the permanent end of high trust society - where you can only keep what you can hold by force of arms. As such, this could be the beginning of the end of European civilisation - with no remedy in sight.