England’s ongoing riots reveal a dissolving society.
Perhaps the best fictional representation of what is going on in England right now is The Time Machine, written more than a century and a quarter ago by H. G. Wells and never out of print since it was published.
In the novella, set in the distant future, humanity has separated into two branches, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are the effete, gentle, soft vegetarians. They live above ground and play by day. But when night falls, the Morlocks emerge. They live underground, do all the work to keep things going, are aggressive and carnivorous, and prey on the Eloi for food.
