That may be your opinion, but that is not everyone's, sadly.
On 11/24/2018 8:25 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
There is no "romance" in "demonstrations" that result in the death of
innocent people.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 5:03 PM Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
France is not Europe.
The Express is a nasty little rag which inhabits the same slimosphere as
the Mail. The French police always overreact to this sort of thin, but the
French people love a good, imaginative protest, and at one time it was
their constitutional duty to protest! The spirit lives on!
The gilets jaunes protests are a large-scale movement of people who live
in the 'new' satellite towns which were built essentially as dormitories
without any kind of infrastructure or local economy, so people are
absolutely dependent on cars for everything, from going to work to going to
the doctor. Without work they can't run their cars, without their cars they
can't get work, so when the price of fuel goes up they're double-fucked.
Parts of France outside the major cities are called 'the desert'. Some of
them are a real mess - i've seen when I've cycled through. The economy, the
car, television and now the internet have gutted them, so if people can't
afford to run their car, they're stuffed.
Hopefully next year I'll cycle the so-called diagonale vide - the empty
diagonal - from Strasbourg to Hendaye, and see even more of it.
The protesters come from a class which feels that it is despised and
looked down on by the metropolitan elites. Macron seemed - or allowed
people to believe - that he was not like the others, even though he went to
the same elite training schools. He is not living up to expectations, so
people who harboured those expectations are turning on him.
There is also the dilemma of the environment versus the automobile, and
the impact that attempts to square this will have on social life and
societies built around the internal combustion engine. Definitely something
for the US to think about.
B
On 24 Nov 2018, at 21:20, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Ha Europe caught the disease of fanaticism and violence from the US?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1049731/France-protests-paris-riots-police-emmanuel-macron-latest-france-news
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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