Over the course of the past week, many of the world's greatest thinkers have tried to make sense of the looting and rioting going on in London.

All of us have little nuggets of advice passed down from elders that we hold on to and carry with us throughout the course of our lives.

Last night, just as I was about to go to bed, my various feeds began erupting with with images from another night of rioting in London and some of the images -- like the one above from the Times of London of a woman leaping from a burning building -- were just ridiculous.