I've said something for quite some time now that's is well within the realm of being a possibility. This is that everybody has a limit at which point they cease using the system and resort to force and violence. Everybody has a point in their minds which they have calculated to be that point at which there's nothing more to be lost and therefore they're willing to go outside of established systems of change and resolution.
Unfortunately, what I'm talking about above is the evolution of an element of warfare; specifically the transition from cold to hot.
But my point is that everybody has a point at which they go over that edge.
All bets are off immediately however, if an economic dislocation leads to bank holidays, empty ATMs, no gasoline, empty supermarkets etc.
An Argentine-style dislocation would lead to total mayhem and disaster. I don’t think we could walk back from the edge, the way the Argentines did. I hope we could. But I think we are hiding many Bosnia-level social fissures under our relative prosperity.
Take away the prosperity and all bets are off.