[brraverishhh]

You answered your own question. It's never been about the realities of want and privation it's the perception of what one should have and be entitled to. Certainly the poor of the west have it better than the billion or so who have clean water to drink. We live in the west where people seriously suggest that cell phones and broadband internet are bona fide human rights. But on the other hand we don't expect people to be happy with having to sleep with their pigs and goats either. And in my mind it's not even completely about that either. It's about in part at least, the sense that when one does get what one wants that burning down your own house and your neighbor's house and his family business and smashing up everything and beating your neighbors up in the street and setting fire to police cars and running down and killing people are legitimate acts of social progress. And what's worse, the powers that be are so cowed so emasculated by their own tolerance not only do they send to the cops to stand there and do nothing, the cops themselves run away lest some some 16 year old yob hurling a brick at a store to smash the window and steal armloads of trainers falls down from the strike of a police baton and bumps his head.