In this remarkable bastardisation of Iceland's slogan, looters are showing a strong grasp of what social psychologists call 'herd mentality'.
By calling this most basic of human motivations into the equation they are to an extent absolving themselves of blame and justifying the theft of finger food for the party they're hoping to have in front of the new flatscreen their boyfriend's picking up from Comet. They are in effect the very modern model of a hunter-gatherer family.
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