
even MSNBC has insight.
in 1968, French youth rioted in the streets in a battle against the seeming onslaught of bourgeois values that had fully taken hold since the end of WWII.
today, they riot for the reverse cause - the bourgeois values not only took hold, but seem to have created a hypnotic trance over the new world - and they riot now to keep what they see as "natural rights", such as a guaranteed job, house, car, family, TV, holiday...
read Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and you will feel like we are all treading water. * Bruno, i still have your copy 10 years later. sorry. email me and i will return it someday!