Anomie is the unraveling of social fabric that occurs where fraud, corruption and incompetence continue unabated. The Yala, in contrast, aids weavers of social fabric.

While many acknowledge the moral hazard of bank bailouts, fewer recognize the still greater social hazard: a disorder typified by a sense of hopelessness and its each-for-themselves consequences.  Events in the UK over the past weeks exemplify this:

• the UK government’s it's-all-too-hard response to the call from Mervyn King (governor of the Bank of England) to address the issue of the Too Big to Fail Banks;
• the indignant reaction of rescued banks who feel they have every right to pay themselves huge bonuses;
• the death of mother-of-two Victoria Davis, 39, who knelt in front of a 50mph train after her bank, Lloyds TSB Group, withdrew a £30,000 overdraft facility from the chauffeur car business she ran with her husband, Mark; and,
• the subsequent announcement of a further £8 billion bailout to Northern Rock, with little expectation of repayment.

Anomie is not an abstract concept from the world of social sciences. It is an all-too-real aspect of everyday life in Eastern Europe that now affects those of us in the West. Anomie is manifest, for example, in the wave of suicides at France Telecom.

Anomie is not to be confused with anarchy. Anarchy denotes lack of rulers, hierarchy, and command, whereas anomie denotes lack of rules, structure, and organization.

The architecture of the Yala brings structure and discipline that are missing. In so doing, the Yala aids discourse management: the process of managing who talks to whom, what they talk about, how they talk about it, who else knows, and why they should even talk at all.