Konrad Jackson
December 31st, 2006, 07:48 PM
Study by one of France's foremost "sociologists", posted bi-annually, shows that Frenchmen, the most rebellious of Westerners with strikes and demonstrations at least twice a month in every town, are more rebellious than ever. This before the presidential election half a year away. 75 percent are negative to the country's future, and believe that:
-the country is going downhill
-their own elite is part of a global elite that conspires against them
-globalization, like the expansion and centralization of the EU, is bad
Every news article I have seen on this story has rejected the experience of the vast majority of the 60+ million Frenchmen as mere paranoia. Not a single news article has mentioned the Arab gangs that roam French streets, or the fact that French industries are moving to Eastern Europe taking well-paid blue-collar jobs with them. Of course, if mentioning race realities is strictly forbidden, then everything is all right in France and the French are just paranoid.
Go back to sssleep, ssstupid goyim ... go back to sssleep....
France's mental ills
Every two years since 1985, the celebrated French sociologist Gérard Mermet has published a detailed assessment of his nation's mood, and the new edition of 'Francoscopie 2007' says that the country is suffering from three simultaneous mental conditions.
It is schizophrenic, Mermet suggests, because it is aware of globalization and other changes underway in the world, but refuses to accept these realities.
It is paranoid, he says, because the French believe they have been comprehensively betrayed by their own elites and that the world is engaged in a "global conspiracy" against them.
And France is hypochondriac, Mermet concludes, because the country is in reality more prosperous, healthier and better educated and its economy more productive than ever before. The French as individuals claim to be happier and better off than ever, and yet the French collectively exaggerate their problems to persuade themselves that they are trapped in a pattern of decline.
More than three-quarters of the French respondents in a series of polls told Mermet's pollsters that they are pessimistic about France's future, while optimistic about their own personal prospects.
The mood is summed up by the French terms for the post-1945 era, which ignores the concepts of Cold War and post-Cold War that the Anglo-Saxons use. For France, the 30 boom years after 1945 were "les trentes glorieuses," three glorious decades. And the thirty slow-growth and high unemployment years since have been pitiful, known as "les trentes pitieuses."
-the country is going downhill
-their own elite is part of a global elite that conspires against them
-globalization, like the expansion and centralization of the EU, is bad
Every news article I have seen on this story has rejected the experience of the vast majority of the 60+ million Frenchmen as mere paranoia. Not a single news article has mentioned the Arab gangs that roam French streets, or the fact that French industries are moving to Eastern Europe taking well-paid blue-collar jobs with them. Of course, if mentioning race realities is strictly forbidden, then everything is all right in France and the French are just paranoid.
Go back to sssleep, ssstupid goyim ... go back to sssleep....
France's mental ills
Every two years since 1985, the celebrated French sociologist Gérard Mermet has published a detailed assessment of his nation's mood, and the new edition of 'Francoscopie 2007' says that the country is suffering from three simultaneous mental conditions.
It is schizophrenic, Mermet suggests, because it is aware of globalization and other changes underway in the world, but refuses to accept these realities.
It is paranoid, he says, because the French believe they have been comprehensively betrayed by their own elites and that the world is engaged in a "global conspiracy" against them.
And France is hypochondriac, Mermet concludes, because the country is in reality more prosperous, healthier and better educated and its economy more productive than ever before. The French as individuals claim to be happier and better off than ever, and yet the French collectively exaggerate their problems to persuade themselves that they are trapped in a pattern of decline.
More than three-quarters of the French respondents in a series of polls told Mermet's pollsters that they are pessimistic about France's future, while optimistic about their own personal prospects.
The mood is summed up by the French terms for the post-1945 era, which ignores the concepts of Cold War and post-Cold War that the Anglo-Saxons use. For France, the 30 boom years after 1945 were "les trentes glorieuses," three glorious decades. And the thirty slow-growth and high unemployment years since have been pitiful, known as "les trentes pitieuses."