Rioting has become part of the American way of life, like football, strikes, conventions and picnics. Our riots come in many varieties: campus riots and ghetto riots, antiwar and antipoverty and anti-property riots, spontaneous riots and planned riots, student, teacher and parent-teacher riots, black, white and black-and-white. About the only thing they all have in common is the fact itself of rioting. When we further note that the popularity of rioting is worldwide—in Communist, non-Communist, developed, advanced, dictatorial and democratic countries—we may suspect that it is in part a fashion spread in the rapid global way of fashions—mod clothes, rock music-—in our age of electronic communications and jet travel. This fashionable dimension in rioting is especially visible in the youth. A young person can’t really feel with it unless he has attended a riot or two; the fashionable young girl makes her debut at a well-publicized riot.
A Nourishing Diet
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