As
@GORDONSMITH7 noted above, the whole edifice is rotten. Strip away the lurid schlock about satanic cults running the world, and we have elites and their technocratic governors riddled with corruption.
Whether it be nabobs of global capital and their showbiz mouthpieces on bond villian islands, or the governing apparatus that oversees the model , frantically covering up its by products...it has a last day's of the roman empire feel to it.
As we have seen with church scandals and other structures, institutions are given to protecting themselves, and power is always open to abuse.
We now have a situation where the interests of the entire ruling class, its bureaucracy and its media and academic enablers, are bound up in a framework which pumps and divides societies while filtering wealth up to super rich finance and tech mandarins.
These events are almost like a grotesque metaphor for the whole process - super rich literally feasting on the bodies of those they exploit. Their drab apparatchiks meanwhile, cover up the grimy fall out in benighted towns the length and breadth of the UK (and I would be surprised if similar is not uncovered elsewhere).
Unaccountable power, a post democratic globalised system, ideologically captured institutions, all of it greased by lucre: human nature hasn't changed since we came out of the trees to walk on the ground, but the social mechanisms we created to contain ourselves are in tatters. And these things follow. Nothing is new except the scale.