More and more ignorant people ... burning down their own towns

I ran across this quote by DonnaLee Wheeler which pretty well explains what I am seeing in London, England and other places:

"Every night [on the world news] we are shown more and more ignorant people, whose ideas of how to change things for the better are by screaming and yelling in the streets and burning down their own towns.

-- Excerpted from "Remembering My Neighbor's Kitchen" (p114). Available in print at KinFolkTrails.com or in electronic form on Amazon.com