Newspeak

What series of nightmarish calamities would need to transpire to instigate rioting on the mean streets of Prairie Village? Food shortages? A complete stock market collapse? An untreatable outbreak of dandelions? Please forgive my outburst. I'm rereading Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's coloring my perception of the G-20 meetings in London and other current events. (I took this photograph of a peaceful London protest in 2008.)