In author Nicholas Christopher's opinion, "it is as if the war, and the social eruptions in its aftermath, unleashed demons that had been bottled up in the national psyche".
Food price spikes in 2008 coincided with the eruption of social unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Cameroon, Mozambique, Sudan, Haiti, and India, among others.
All of those social repressions and emotional eruptions, the erotic longings and spiritual ambitions: some were glimpses of "the great and beautiful... that which so to speak has stood higher than my daily self"; the rest, "the dregs and sediments of one's own nature," lay beneath, like toxic waste.
At that time, few could imagine that this open architecture would fuel such a powerful eruption of economic, social and political creativity.
A number of social and professional images of the eruption and its impact were also available online throughout.
Anti-pot PSAs didn't emerge through a slow process of social change, but in a rapid eruption of self-serving bigotry divorced from science or fact.
Those walkouts follow eruptions of industrial and social unrest in Spain and Greece in reaction to sweeping austerity programmes imposed to pay for the bank-triggered economic crash.
The great political question is whether this financial squeeze and eruptions within health and social care remind people of the big red bus lie of £350m a week for the NHS?
I certainly hope not, although the recent global disturbances point to eruptions apparently fueled by social networking sites, which now serve as conduits of public rage.
