It seems that a sense of hopelessness and cynicism are part and parcel of the socialist state, and this is the real tragedy. Can you imagine really living life without hope that things will either get better, or that life is worth living in its fullest capacities? I agree that them thinking they're winning something with these riots is to miss the mark of what it means to experience life. Creature comforts can lull us into becoming too comfortable.
Corbusier - I am posting links to this article and to "Franceland" on my blog. Both are excellent.
as it has been already said, France is the only communist country in the world which has (more or less) succeeded
Good article unfortunaly too true and too sad!!!
Rush Limbaugh once made a very important distinction: a "right"is something which demands nothing of your fellow citizen and, instead, constrains their ability to demand something of you. An "entitlement" is something that enables you to make economic demands on your fellow citizen and, therefore, obligates them to work on your behalf. I am constantly amazed at my French relatives'inability to link the benefits they obtain from their government to the sweat and toil of others.
Wow. Powerful post. In regard to your last paragraph, as to what such a worker has to look forwards to: There is only one "lifetime employed" group of workers in America, and that is the government civil service. There is a certain subset of them whose first task, each day, is to sit down and figure out the number of years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until retirement. And they can tell you this figure at any time. (Actually, they have countdown clocks for this purpose now!)
Good article, the cynicism of the bureaucracy, mostly far leftist, the prideful desire to dominate men. The poor mindset of individuals : their eyes in the rear-view mirror, their feet on the brake pedal. French governments (thirty years now) are putting their children into debt so that their parents work in their grand parents jobs. Capitalism is state-controlled, and it is a confortable posture, giving a propensity for stasis. Growth is low, debt is there to preserve the past, demography is low. Lifelong politicians are like a new aristocracy. Democracy is not achieved in the sense : there is no renewal in the political domain.
This is exactly what would never be done.
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