What's happening?

Much talk about anarchy as a result of what has been going on in London and elsewhere.  What exactly does it mean?  Well it comes from the Greek: a- being a general negative prefix, and arkhos meaning ruler.  So anarchy strictly speaking is a social system where there is no ruler, and therefore no rules.  So it's every man for himself, or to quote Aleister Crowley "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".  So it's not so much a breakdown of law and order, but more a situation where there is no such concept as law and order.  What's been going on recently is mob rule, which is something quite different.