My first thought is that our Empire is following the course of the Roman Empire, which experienced riots from the plebeians or plebes. Coriolanus opens with such a riot, which is a riot for food. Today there are food stamps, so the riots are for other reasons or desires. “Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.” “1 Cit. We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians good. What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think … Continue reading Mall Riots: The Plebes Are Restless